Street Vendor Prepares Chocolate Panipuri With Ice Cream, Netizens Plead Not To 'Promote' Such Foods

"These so-called fusions have damaged the authenticity of original food !", wrote one user on seeing the video.

Culinary experiments with unusual pairings such as ice cream with khichdi and Omelette With Dairy Milk has been on the rise in recent days. The internet is replete with such bizarre videos. And new to join this list is chocolate panipuri served with ice cream and Oreo.

Posted on Instagram on the food blogging page called 'The Great Indian Foodie', the video opens to show a street vendor arrange some chocolate-covered puris and put some crushed Oreo cookies into it. He then adds small scoops of ice cream over it. After plating the dish, he garnishes it with chocolate syrup and Kit Kat chocolate and hands the plate to a customer.

"Chaat lovers ke liye ye yummy fusion dessert ! Chocolate panipuri,' read the caption of the video.

The video is viral and has gained more than 1.3 lakh views and 3,938 likes. The comments box is filled with some mixed reactions over the bizarre experiment.

"These so-called fusions have damaged the authenticity of original food !", wrote one user on seeing the video.

"Plz don’t do this with panipuri n plz requesting your not promote these kind of foods also !!! I can keep another name for this dessert but Dnt say Panipuri", wrote another user.

While a third wrote, "People generally care more about taste than authenticity when they go out to eat. I don't see anything wrong with this new version of dessert panipuri".

"I had this idea in my mind from so long to try", wrote a fourth.

"well I am happy, not being one of those people.... Enjoy your meal", wrote  another user expressing disbelief.