New TikTok Trend Comes With A Warning

The latest TikTok food trend comes with a warning.  This new trend consists of people putting oil in a frying pan and throwing in South Korean toothpicks.  Why South Korean toothpicks, you ask?  South Korean toothpicks are made with corn or potato starch. When I heard this, I thought "What's the big deal? I use potato starch to thicken my homemade hot chocolate."

These bio-degradable toothpicks may be environmentally friendly, but not digestion-friendly.  According to SkyNews,  health officials are warning that these toothpicks are not meant to be eaten.  Eating these pointed sticks acts as a natural laxative if you eat large amounts of them.   As with all cocktail sticks, they are meant to be used to pick food up with them, not to be eaten as food!

Admittedly, when I saw the video on TikTok, my first reaction was " YUM!"  When toothpicks are thrown in a frying pan of oil, they puff up like a cheese curl.  If you leave them in the frying pan for an extra second, they begin to curl like a curly fry, and who doesn't love a curly fry?  What makes these pointed objects such a delicacy that folks just want to sink their teeth into, is the way they are prepared.  Imagine the scrumptious taste of toothpicks with either some added spices of your choice or added powdered cheese.  These videos are enough to want to get the viewers everywhere wanting to serve them up as appetizers at their next big party.

After hearing of the warnings, I guess we need to be safe and just consume foods that are, let's say, consumable! We need to stick to using toothpicks as something to pick food up, not eat as food.  We need to use toothpicks like my Mom used them. My Mom's favorite use for them was sticking them on the top of the cake in a circle to prevent the plastic wrap from sticking to the icing.   So instead of eating these fried starchy sticks to satisfy your sweet tooth, use them as a dental utensil instead.

Kim Kardashian can make you laugh without even trying to. Being an active poster with her daughter North West on their joint TikTok account, Kim and North, the SKIMS mogul often joins in on dance routines and pranks. In November 2021, the mother-daughter duo debuted their TikTok page. Now, the two boast a whopping 16.7 million followers on the social site.

For North, pranking and roasting her mom has long been one of her favorite pastimes. As we previously reported, Kim revealed that her daughter intimidates her more than anyone. The Kardashians reality star, who also shares daughter Chicago and sons Saint and Psalm with ex-husband Kanye West, has called North Kanye's "twin." When it comes to Kim doing unboxing videos for Instagram, North has hilariously called her mom out for her tone of voice. Back in September 2021, North interrupted her mom's makeup haul to ask, "Why do you talk different?" Kardashian replied: “For my videos, I’m the same human being. I don’t talk different. How do I talk different? Guys, do you think I talk different when I’m talking about contour?”

Both North and her cousin Penelope Disick were in the bathroom with Kim, agreeing that she sounds like she is talking in a different tone when talking to her hundreds of millions of followers. When Kim asked the girls how she sounded, North delivered an accurate impression of Kim’s high-pitched voice, with Penelope seen chuckling in the background. Kim posted a collage of folks on X (formerly Twitter) loving North ragging on her mom to her Story, saying things like, “‘You always say you’re glad when you’re mad,’ by Ms. North West,” and “Not North clocking Kim for her business voice.” Kardashian's minimalistic style isn't safe from North, either. Her daughter has complained when Kim wears too much black. “North is very opinionated when it comes to what I’m wearing,” Kim said in March 2022.

Take a look below at Kim Kardashian's funniest TikToks:

In this TikTok video, Kim hilariously shakes as Daniel Caesar's "Get You" is playing. In the short clip, North, as usual, upstages her, but Kim does her best to do a close-up "weird" face for the TikTok.

Using audio from the animated Teen Titans Go! series, Kim hilariously puts her arms up like a cat's. The SKIMS founder then jumps up and down and throws her arms up in the air in the playfully adorable and crazy clip. As if things couldn't be any more chaotic, Kim wears an alien filter perfectly when the audio says: "alien princess."

Though Kim isn't purposely trying to be funny, her attempts at doing a TikTok dance with North is hilarious to watch. Uncoordinated and off beat, Kim kicks her legs out the sides of her black robe and when she crosses her arms to kick her legs forward this time, the combination of all that plus the big sunglasses she wears is absolutely hilarious. To top it off, she tries to adjust her falling hair at the end of the clip.

Here's a TikTok that was meant to be funny... and it actually is funny. North and Kim go back and forth using birds chirping as the audio, in a sassy conversation. North does steal the shine with the dramatics, but Kim's minimal gestures are hilarious in itself.

In this TikTok from February, North hilariously pranks her mom. North opens her mouth up to scream, but when it's Kim's turn, a loud horse neighing plays, which causes her to be embarrassed and hold North as the two laugh.

Kicking off 2023, Kim gave herself a makeover, er, a make-under with this "British Chav" look. Sharing quick clips of her hair-and-makeup transformation, Kardashian showcased the extremely heavy look, which features her over-lining her eyebrows thickly, and concealer that is shades way too light for her skin tone as she obnoxiously chews gum. The term "chav" comes from a Romany word, "chavi," meaning "child."