For real! I feel like the ones that were at the greatest risk would've been children, cause who else would flock at the chance to eat vividly pink sauce? And Karamo's actions have made me question whether he was ever actually genuine on Queer Eye. Such a huge disappointment, I hope he gets replaced.
Agreed! This chick is asking for handouts after making people fall ill because of her product. One (at least one) had GLITTER IN IT! That is not digestible by human beings! She needs to get a real job and take care of her kids instead of being desperate for attention again!!!!!
I mean this in all sincerity: she needs to get a job. even if people are still willing to help her after all the bs she pulled legal battles take a LONG time. if she really needs money now she needs to go do doordash or SOMETHING so her kids aren’t homeless and are able to get clothes for school. it’s her job to make sure her kids are provided for, not people on the internet.
i was questioning this because the thing its that she was a private chef, and im pretty sure she was a private chef for a friend of hers, so i wonder if after the scandal the friend fired her? or she quitted because she thought she was gonna be rich with her sauce?
Yeah. I feel bad because she got a shitty deal, and I do not wish for her children to go hungry or poor. HOWEVER, it's very clear that the "Pink Sauce" was just going to be a trend and wasn't going to lead to long-term financial security.
Thinking the same thing. Like, didn't she have a job before the Pink Sauce? She... She didn't quit her job the moment she got internet fame, right?... She probably did.
@tiredofthechaos simple, she wants to be a chef without doing ANY of the things she needs to do to acquire the experience needed to be one. I would be willing to guarantee that none of her food was safe to eat when she was a " private chef"
“What do you mean FDA approved??I don’t sell medical products.” Is the part that really threw me for a loop. Did you do ANY research before you made a money grab? Like there’s no care or concern for her customers, as a former chef she should know the importance of food safety and how a lack of it could lead to illness, or worse, death. If you ask me she should’ve done some time or paid a fine for negligence.
"Justice for Pink Sauce" Lady, justice has already been served! 😂 This is what happens when you care more about being famous, than you do about running a good business.
@@lillysparrow she can get a job like the rest of us. Plus there are assistance programs. She has kids if she does the work to apply she will get help.
Someone should hold chef Pii’s hands and tell her she’s not special. Why would people pay her out of the problem she caused herself? Just like Markie said, if she had done all this properly she would’ve made bank, but she made herself look worse and worse and on top of it tried to go with a quick cash grab that ended up biting her in the butt.
My best guess on the contract is it was built in that she would receive a percent of the sales AFTER the company's original investment had been paid off, and then the product never sold enough to cover that investment.
Exactly. I'm betting that she signed a contract that may have also aside from the points you made had a minimum sales figure before giving her a profit share too.
@@elenawilliams32 yeah, she brings up that they haven't refunded her for the personal marketing that she's done, but why would that be built into a contract? Surely they were also taking care of the marketing and she chose to do her own as well with her personal funds. Or maybe she's talking about the "marketing" she's doing on TikTok and online and she expects to be compensated for her time. Don't get me wrong, large corporations are often very evil, but I'm suspicious that what she's describing is anything nefarious.
@@whale_why_notyeah especially since as a “chef” she didn’t know the FDA dealt with food I can’t even begin to imagine how she interpreted the contract she signed
I do feel bad for her kids though. both because their mom is supposedly unable to feed them, and for just having to live with that woman in the first place. yikes all around, honestly.
I feel like everybody would be more sympathetic to her current situation if she hadn’t been so rude and ignorant in all her previous appearances. When she touched that lady’s hand and told her she wasn’t special, that’s what made me hope for this outcome.
she poisoned us, gas lit us, tried to make money off us w a gimmick, failed miserably, signed a dumb deal, now wants US to bail her out 🤣 NO ONE should be helping her. You can’t just “not pay” her if your the company either, she just definitely didn’t know what deal she was signing 😂 otherwise ANY lawyer would take this FREE!
I’m sorry but it’s her own damn fault, As a mother of 4 myself I do feel bad for her kids but there are resources out there that can help her with school stuff, but her needing 20$ a DAY from her mother who is on disability is actually INSANE to me. And like I said I have 4 of my own kids so I know first hand how hard it is for mothers but it’s not anyone’s responsibility to donate to her especially after the way she treated everyone from the jump of the whole sauce being for sale out of her own home… she is a scammer in my opinion and just wants people to feel bad for her when she never has felt any sort of sympathy or empathy for others look at the way she was on that talk show
Disability is hard to live off of. Your literally just surviving since they pay people the same amount of money that they did in the 80s. She is taking her mothers money who can barely make ends meet.
@@psychedelicpayroll5412 exactly and there’s no reason she should be it’s not her mother’s responsibility to hand her the little bit of money that she has and that’s she’s supposed to live on
she should've never signed a deal with them without her own lawyer. Any lawyer would've seen these shenanigans in the contracts and told her to either pull the plug on the deal or make Dave's Gourmet give her more. She's a foolish, impulsive person and because of that her children are suffering the consequences.
You haven't even seen the contract. Judging by her past actions, I'm going to assume that the contract is industry standard and she either doesn't understand it, or somehow expects that if she makes enough noise, Karamo will put her back on his show and go after Dave's Gourmet or her landlord.
@@DeMinimusMs I’m 100% sure it’s also the fact that no one is buying pink sauce. It’s ok clearance everywhere it’s sold, so I doubt they’re making much profit, if any. She can’t get royalties if there’s no royalties to begin with.
She brought it on herself. To use her words. on the talk show against her "you're just not special" Also, Markie, I hadn't realised about the weight loss, seeing the comparison is mad! You look great, well done!!
She made bad decisions acted absolutely horribly to everyone including people who bought her product and now she wants money for her screw up 🤦♀️😂 damn, and here I am just busting my ass like the rest of the world just trying to scrape by in the current times!!! She did it to herself!!!!
Her sauce at MOST was always going to be a successful FAD. I think "Chef" Pii got an initial payment and the rest was due to sales and now her lump some ran out. She more than likely lived way beyond her means thinking her sauce was gonna do great things for her bank account. Even when a HUGE Company like Heinze made multi colored ketchup, it was a fad for a couple months. Fads dont last. She just didn't do well with her money and no one else should have to reimburse her lifestyle because of her mistakes.
If it was good and cheaper, i could see it having an ongoing sale. But tasting like ranch and then costs way more? Yeah ill just buy ranch and colour it pink
The absolute insanity of this whole thing is the fact that while her brand and life are crumbling one of the biggest pop culture moments thats happening rn is Barbie...... who's whole vibe is pink...... imagine how much money she could have made if she was able to make deals w/ movie theaters for pink sauce as a dipper? How much money she'd make once the movie hit DVD/streaming services for themed movie nights? Definition of "fumbled the bag" omg
Here's a thought I haven't seen mentioned yet - maybe she isn't as hard off as she's letting on, she's just not making the money she expected and spent above her means, so now she's trying to recoup some losses. I don't usually assume the worst of people but she hasn't exactly shown the world a good image. She's come off as lazy, ignorant, and combative since day one, so it's hard for me to think this isn't just another attempt at her making easy money. No matter what the situation is, I feel bad for her kids. They don't need to be a part of this drama.
@@erinrockwell8490 you said it. HER KIDS. Should be her responsibility... I'm pretty sure is not mine, so, no DNA from me.... I have two cats tho, no one asks me about them.... Or I bring them into my problems. Why people should care? They have a sound mother that can go to fields in Florida or Construction.... I doubt someone will allow her in a kitchen...
I have a hard time imagining that this could end up leading to a legal battle. If Pii can't afford food and clothes for her children and needs to rely on her mother to give her $20 a day, there's no way she can scrounge up the funds to take Dave's Gourmet to court. Even if she did manage to get the funds (maybe her gaslighting friend Karamo can help her) it would all depend on what contract she signed. So if it went to court and it's found that Dave's Gourmet did nothing wrong according to the contract she signed, then she'd be doubly screwed over by the legal fees. While I do feel badly that she's been put in this situation and that her children are suffering because of it, this is ultimately a hole she dug for herself.
Anyone with one working braincell could tell you that scaling your business to a major retailer means you have GOT to have a lawyer to help you go through these contracts. She screwed herself over at every opportunity. I feel really bad for those kids.
Atozy suggested a theory and I think it's really probable. The contract that she signed has a clause that she won't get paid till a certain amount of units are sold and she hasn't reached that goal. If thats the case, and she read the contract and understand what it meant, I think she thought because it went viral, it would be easy. She went viral for her product, potentially being unsafe to eat, which throws people off from it, so in the end not as many units were sold. There's a chance she just didn't understand the contract as well. Sounds like she needed a lawyer way earlier.
I'm begging y'all to stop calling every potential manipulation gaslighting 😂 She's not systematically destroying his grip on reality if she managed to convince of that. She would just have used pity points to manipulate someone that already showed he doesn't look into things before acting. Would be great if could save that one for the actual psychological abuse that gaslighting is. Just saying. Personally, I honestly don't buy her kids and her are that in a hole to need a GFM though. If she was, she's shown she didn't prioritize money management well enough, even for their sake. Certainly doesn't bode well for any funding being used on her kids. That part alone says it all though- Pii doesn't do longterm thinking, she reacts in real time to every crisis (for lack of a better term). I feel terribly for her kids, but I'd feel terribly regardless because their mother continues to do things this way. I hope she can wake up and get some help for their sake, but people giving money just enables her.
@@ZoeAlleynefr he had no clue about the situation and made an ass of himself by believing Pii's right with zero evidence and then doubled down repeatedly. He can sit under the shadiest tree and I'd still be throwing some his way. He literally could've prevented this with a few minutes of googling both of them, it was so easy and yet...
When she goes “you’re not special” to the blonde lady on the show, the blonde lady was incredibly gracious, the dynamic reminded me of like a calm babysitter humouring 3 year olds 👀
Don't be so quick to believe that Dave's gourmet is who's screwing her over. Seeing that she is in a person that does our due diligence it seems that she's been spending a lot of money before she even signed this deal. I wouldn't be surprised that she signed it without an attorney looking over it and didn't understand exactly the terms of it
I'm sure Dave's Gourmet was very careful about the wording in that contract because they knew it wouldn't be a continuous source of revenue for them. People will buy it at Walmart not because it's good but because they have heard it's awful. It's a one time purchase and only certain people would be interested. I'm not one of those people though so I can't tell you exactly how bad it is. Also, I wonder if she's really a chef or just calls herself one. It's disturbing to think someone could go to culinary school and know nothing about food safety. I'd think that'd be some of the first stuff they'd be taught.
She's not a trained chef. She called herself that because she cooked for her friend. So, she considered herself a "private chef". That's...thats not how it works! All real chefs know about the FDA and what it means. She made herself look and sound so damn stupid.
as a culinary student, they always teach us food safety, all the corporations and whatnot about food regulations, they teach us temperature control and protocols to keep food safe and edible, pretty sure she just did what a lot of people do, just use the title
She's 100% a self proclaimed Chef. The kitchen that she used to work out of was a garage that had kitchen equipment in it. Didn't even have a proper fridge.
I think this is absolutely proof that internet clout does not translate into fame in the real world. Can't take people's emotion and outrage and turn them into a physical product and make money off of it. Or At least the negativity of it.
Yeah, it's not hard to get a job as a cashier just to have a source of income. I got a job working registers at a dollar store with zero job experience
I think there's possibly a lot she's not telling people. Also have a feeling that their being silent, plus removing her posts, could mean they're gearing up to sue her and have probably sent a C&D by now. I really hope she had a lawyer go over that contract before she signed it.
Atozy hit it on the head...I'm sure there was a minimum sales requirement before Chef Pi saw any form of payment. Dave's Gourmet 100% financed the launch of the Pink Sauce in Walmart. They paid for the food products needed. They needed to fine tune the recipe to make sure it was a shelf stable product. They paid for all the packaging. They made the Walmart deal. I'm sure Dave's Gourmet needs to be reimbursed for all costs before there would be any profits to split. Chef Pi did hardly any promotion of Pink Sauce once it hit Walmart, only a couple Tik Toks. I'm sorry she didn't read the contract. I'm sorry if she can't feed her children. But if she is a chef and financially supported her family before the Pink Sauce on a Chef's salary, why can't she now?
To be fair, the sauce company probably isn’t make anything now either. No one is buying that stuff at Walmart, right? like the color of each bottle isn’t even consistent.
As a halfway decent home cook let me tell you that making "a pink sauce" is as easy as making any mayonnaise or cream based sauce & putting a tiny amount of the juices off a boiled beetroot in it. A teaspoon per hundred ml of sauce will do it.
I don't think she's been bamboozled by Dave's Gourmet. I think she thinks the pink sauce is selling better than it actually is because she does have a lot of narcissistic tendencies...js
She deluded herself into thinking she's the next Gordon Ramsay or something and flew too close to the sun. Now she refuses to admit she's fallen and still holds on to her pride. She's a narcissist if I've ever seen one
I've wanted to try the sauce, but I didn't want to give money to a lady who doesn't understand why you can't just whip up a dairy product and send it in an envelope through the hot mail, and then 💩 on people who have to explain it to her. 🤔
Anne reardon did make it herself. Her channel is "how to cook that". Its not exactly exactly i suppose, but you can always head there and make your own.
Chef P should have put out the recipe, and then started selling it. Ranch dressing and Tollhouse cookies were recipes before they hit store shelves. Also by putting out the recipe she could have had test marketers because people would have posted adjustments, etc. I don’t feel sorry for her because she was making money before all of this she needs to go back to doing that.
@@MamaMOB This is gonna sound mean, but I think the sauce lady isn't smart enough to research and check what the food preparation guidelines were, remember she calls herself a "chef" and didn't know what FDA meant. 😅
Ranch was created by a dude from Alaska and then sold as a powder first, not a recipe. You can still get it like that. She should have done that, done a dry mix. Joke is on Chef Pii though because it was literally just pink ranch. I tried it and was not impressed because I don't really like ranch dressing. I do use the powder to make other things with. Really good on fries!! I believe you're thinking of Caesar dressing! 😅 Which originated from one Italian restaurant owner that lived on the west coast.
She needs to take “chef” out of her name. She is CLEARLY not an actual chef. Or she’d know what the fda does or common food laws. And Sir Dimples, it Kuh Rah Moe ✌️
Dave's have tons of sauces they sell.. they have restaurants. I think she's exaggerating or lack of understanding of contracts.. Dave's is a decent sized company. And they're not going to jeopardize getting sued. Ijs.. She already gave her sauce a bad rep.. Dave's would've helped to "revive" it. I think she's upset that she's not getting more $ like she thought she would. (that's just my input)
she poisoned us, gas lit us, tried to make money off us w a gimmick, failed miserably, signed a dumb deal, now wants US to bail her out 🤣 NO ONE should be helping her. You can’t just “not pay” her if your the company either, she just definitely didn’t know what deal she was signing 😂 otherwise ANY lawyer would take this FREE!
We are over half way through 2023 and I actually have not laughed harder than I did when she hit us with that iconic line: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN FDA APPROVED? I DONT SELL MEDICAL PRODUCTS.”
Honestly? If her life hits the rocks, I won't shed a tear. She hasn't even attended a Chef School. Wouldn't surprise me if she failed to graduate high school.
Here’s an example of her situation… I didn’t do my homework, and then make up tests today. Can someone please give me the answers. That’s what she sounds like.
She didn't do any checking before making the sauce or even think that she should have so it is a fair guess that she wouldn't have thought to look into any company she would work with
Dave’s Gourmet pulled a shark tank move on the pink sauce. One of the members of shark tank did the same to a bbq company with a sketchy deal and stole their royalties and now the ppl are broke. I knew Dave’s gourmet was sketchy because they knew how toxic her business ethics is and they knew she didn’t know business that well so they took advantage of a single mom. I’m sure she was sent a cease order and took down her post.
You’re a nicer person than I am! I have ZERO sympathy for her or her family. She had no problem putting peoples health at risk for her grift. Her karma is justified
I mean, it’s hard to feel sorry for her when she gaslit Allie like she did. Like I hope she makes it out of this but actually learns from this this time. (I cringe and roll my eyes to the FDA line every time, it’s ridiculous.)
*Takes her by the hand* I mean it when I say this, you’re not special sis. You’re not special, you’ll be okay. 😂 100 points for Gryffindor for people who get the refrence
The amount of care i have for her is so little. I can not feel bad for her own stupid actions. Did she really think her sauce would be a hit with how she acted? Did she really just sign a contract without looking at it
“Seems like the learning is mostly on your part” “You are not special” (while holding Pi’s hand) Have taken a whole new meaning. For the childrens sake I hope it has a positive resolution.
Just a question: wasnt chef P a private chef? Also for a friend of hers? DId she quit her job? The friend fired her? Im not saying shes lying im just confused
I was gonna say please don’t tell me she’s not signed a contract without a lawyer being present to check it over and make sure she’s not being ripped off
I watched another video on this and they believed that they deal she made had a sale goal where they had to sell a certain amount before she got royalties and the pink sauce was on the discount self about a month after it was released due to poor sales
Poor kids :( I just don’t understand what’s stopping her from getting a job? Like if you think you have legal grounds, go forth and pursue them, but why not have a job to support your family in the mean time?
Dave's Gourmet Sauce is well established!!! They didn't NEED Chef Pii to make their fortune! I am suspicious, I think Chef Pii is crying wolf to some degree!
I work at Walmart in Mason, Wv. We have pink sauce at our store. •It’s always fully stocked. •I’ve never seen anyone buy it. (Even when it gets marked down when it gets close to its expiration date.) •We end up claiming it out and giving it to Feed America.
Instead of gatekeeping and selling this stupid sauce, she should of just released a recipe on TikTok and made it a trend to make and try it that way, the sauce selling isn’t even pink which defeats the whole purpose on why it was popular in the first place! And she’d still be in her private chef job not having these issues
Just got back from Walmart and it's always front and center of the aisles with maybe 1 or 2 bottles gone 😂 I've never seen anyone buy it let alone look at the product. I always chuckle at how many bottles are on the shelves 😂
She won't spend the money on legal fees. As it trickles in she'll spend it on things that she needs for day-to-day life including nail jobs, new phones, shiny bobbles, hair & makeup, things of that nature. She has not proven herself to be financially responsible why would anyone give her money? Besides, she's not special. She's like everyone else's needs to get a job.
I bought the pink sauce and IT WASNT SEALED. so I returned it. It was in the unrefrigerated section. Eggs and milk in the ingredients. 😢 if it was sealed it can be like ranch but if it's not... wtf??
I did see the Pink Sauce the other day in a HyVee, so it was still available as of Sunday. I wasn't ever going to buy it since I'm not big on novelty sauces, but I definitely felt negatively toward it after that interview. I hope that her family is able to come back from this. Regardless of whether or not someone is a good person, I think everyone deserves basic necessities like food and shelter. I hope she's able to figure out where to go for resources for her family, because they are out there. I'd be nervous of any gofundme of hers potentially being a scam of some sort, though.
Alas, if she doesn't have the funds this will never see the inside of a court room. This is one infuriating thing about the legal system- it's available to all but only if you can afford it!
I work for Walmart. No it does not sell at least not from my store we end up throwing it out for expiration, and we sell through sauces like crazy just not that one.
I never realized how dramatic a sauce mishap could ever be. She could have just shared the ingredients. But at least people took the health risks seriously and stopped the production before anyone could have been seriously hurt. But now she has been f-ed over by capitalism. Hope this situation resolves in the best way possible.
"F-ed over by *capitalism?"* Lol no, she got *"F-ed Over"* by her own ridiculous behavior. She was arrogant in the face of legitimate criticism and literally went on a talk show to shame one of her NICEST critics despite the fact that she could have, AND DID if you believe a lot of the stories, make people sick. If she had approached this responsibly day one minute one instead of getting greedy and rushing to get the sauce out so that she could make money off the hype, she wouldn't be in this situation now. This is not *capitalism* screwing someone over. This is consequences for foolish behavior.
@@RHBR01 It was her actions that provoked this downfall for sure. However by the definition of capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit., this seems to be the reason this whole situation was even possible. She was chasing the profit in the fastest means possible for her in a capitalistic society. But she definitely should have done her research before doing anything, yet alone signing a contract with a large company that cares only about its profits.
She could have killed people. I have no sympathy for her, or for the douchebag Kuramo who helped her gaslight that poor girl, Ally.
For real! I feel like the ones that were at the greatest risk would've been children, cause who else would flock at the chance to eat vividly pink sauce? And Karamo's actions have made me question whether he was ever actually genuine on Queer Eye. Such a huge disappointment, I hope he gets replaced.
Amen
Agreed! This chick is asking for handouts after making people fall ill because of her product. One (at least one) had GLITTER IN IT! That is not digestible by human beings! She needs to get a real job and take care of her kids instead of being desperate for attention again!!!!!
Same.
I mean this in all sincerity: she needs to get a job. even if people are still willing to help her after all the bs she pulled legal battles take a LONG time. if she really needs money now she needs to go do doordash or SOMETHING so her kids aren’t homeless and are able to get clothes for school. it’s her job to make sure her kids are provided for, not people on the internet.
i was questioning this because the thing its that she was a private chef, and im pretty sure she was a private chef for a friend of hers, so i wonder if after the scandal the friend fired her? or she quitted because she thought she was gonna be rich with her sauce?
Yeah. I feel bad because she got a shitty deal, and I do not wish for her children to go hungry or poor. HOWEVER, it's very clear that the "Pink Sauce" was just going to be a trend and wasn't going to lead to long-term financial security.
Thinking the same thing. Like, didn't she have a job before the Pink Sauce? She... She didn't quit her job the moment she got internet fame, right?... She probably did.
How was she a chef but didn't have a basic understanding of food safety?
@tiredofthechaos simple, she wants to be a chef without doing ANY of the things she needs to do to acquire the experience needed to be one. I would be willing to guarantee that none of her food was safe to eat when she was a " private chef"
I click every time I see “pink sauce”. I’m still shocked by her audacity, attitude and plain ignorance regarding the entire situation.
“What do you mean FDA approved??I don’t sell medical products.” Is the part that really threw me for a loop. Did you do ANY research before you made a money grab? Like there’s no care or concern for her customers, as a former chef she should know the importance of food safety and how a lack of it could lead to illness, or worse, death. If you ask me she should’ve done some time or paid a fine for negligence.
Same.
"Justice for Pink Sauce"
Lady, justice has already been served! 😂
This is what happens when you care more about being famous, than you do about running a good business.
People actually donated when she did it to herself? She didn’t have to be a jerk to reviewers/ people in general
She also claimed to be a Private chef for the catering company what happened to that?
@@1llustrousking Clout made her quit, thinking she'd make plenty from royalties and collabs.
Honestly, people could just donated because they sympathise to the kids. If she didnt have kids, id doubt she would got a single penny
you want her child to starve?
@@lillysparrow she can get a job like the rest of us. Plus there are assistance programs. She has kids if she does the work to apply she will get help.
The fact that she couldn’t figure out that the f in fda stands for food speaks volumes
I'm surprised she still got some clout after saying that, she's a supposed chef. I'm no good in a kitchen and even I know the F in FDA stands for Food
Someone should hold chef Pii’s hands and tell her she’s not special.
Why would people pay her out of the problem she caused herself?
Just like Markie said, if she had done all this properly she would’ve made bank, but she made herself look worse and worse and on top of it tried to go with a quick cash grab that ended up biting her in the butt.
Yes please now shes useing her kids because she didn't read or check the contract
My best guess on the contract is it was built in that she would receive a percent of the sales AFTER the company's original investment had been paid off, and then the product never sold enough to cover that investment.
Exactly. I'm betting that she signed a contract that may have also aside from the points you made had a minimum sales figure before giving her a profit share too.
@@elenawilliams32 yeah, she brings up that they haven't refunded her for the personal marketing that she's done, but why would that be built into a contract? Surely they were also taking care of the marketing and she chose to do her own as well with her personal funds. Or maybe she's talking about the "marketing" she's doing on TikTok and online and she expects to be compensated for her time. Don't get me wrong, large corporations are often very evil, but I'm suspicious that what she's describing is anything nefarious.
@@whale_why_notyeah especially since as a “chef” she didn’t know the FDA dealt with food I can’t even begin to imagine how she interpreted the contract she signed
@@whale_why_not I think she thought she was just going to sit back and the money would just roll in. She's a sandwich short of a picnic... And lazy.
Ah thanks for explaining!
She basically yelled and called everyone stupid when people were just trying to help her. I don’t feel bad for her at all! You reap what you sow.
Exactly
I do feel bad for her kids though. both because their mom is supposedly unable to feed them, and for just having to live with that woman in the first place. yikes all around, honestly.
I feel like everybody would be more sympathetic to her current situation if she hadn’t been so rude and ignorant in all her previous appearances. When she touched that lady’s hand and told her she wasn’t special, that’s what made me hope for this outcome.
I feel the same way
Chef Pii will learn that she is the one who is in fact not special.
Only sorry for the kids and the grandma.
I only feel sympathy for her kids, they have to suffer this woman being their mother. She got exactly what she put into the world ❤
and depending on what shes feeding the kids their probably gonna get terminal cancer
she poisoned us, gas lit us, tried to make money off us w a gimmick, failed miserably, signed a dumb deal, now wants US to bail her out 🤣 NO ONE should be helping her. You can’t just “not pay” her if your the company either, she just definitely didn’t know what deal she was signing 😂 otherwise ANY lawyer would take this FREE!
Me too
Amen!
I’m sorry but it’s her own damn fault,
As a mother of 4 myself I do feel bad for her kids but there are resources out there that can help her with school stuff, but her needing 20$ a DAY from her mother who is on disability is actually INSANE to me. And like I said I have 4 of my own kids so I know first hand how hard it is for mothers but it’s not anyone’s responsibility to donate to her especially after the way she treated everyone from the jump of the whole sauce being for sale out of her own home… she is a scammer in my opinion and just wants people to feel bad for her when she never has felt any sort of sympathy or empathy for others look at the way she was on that talk show
Oh, she’s definitely a Scammer considering she said she had her own Catering company and was a private chef if that is true then she should be fine.
Perfectly said!
Disability is hard to live off of. Your literally just surviving since they pay people the same amount of money that they did in the 80s. She is taking her mothers money who can barely make ends meet.
@@psychedelicpayroll5412 exactly and there’s no reason she should be it’s not her mother’s responsibility to hand her the little bit of money that she has and that’s she’s supposed to live on
She can go and get a job like everyone else.
she should've never signed a deal with them without her own lawyer. Any lawyer would've seen these shenanigans in the contracts and told her to either pull the plug on the deal or make Dave's Gourmet give her more. She's a foolish, impulsive person and because of that her children are suffering the consequences.
This is a person who didn't know what FDA is.
You haven't even seen the contract. Judging by her past actions, I'm going to assume that the contract is industry standard and she either doesn't understand it, or somehow expects that if she makes enough noise, Karamo will put her back on his show and go after Dave's Gourmet or her landlord.
@@DeMinimusMs I’m 100% sure it’s also the fact that no one is buying pink sauce. It’s ok clearance everywhere it’s sold, so I doubt they’re making much profit, if any. She can’t get royalties if there’s no royalties to begin with.
theres no shenanigans. chef pii is just illiterate lmfao
The "royalty" bit has me wondering: does she think that she was going to get paid for every bottle that was sold, like a record or a book deal?
Yeah, like, I don't think food production exactly works that way...
I was wondering the same.
Wouldn't surprise me.. this is the same woman that didn't know what the F in FDA meant 💀
Most likely
yes. she even said she has to be pair before expenses 💀
She brought it on herself. To use her words. on the talk show against her "you're just not special"
Also, Markie, I hadn't realised about the weight loss, seeing the comparison is mad! You look great, well done!!
She made bad decisions acted absolutely horribly to everyone including people who bought her product and now she wants money for her screw up 🤦♀️😂 damn, and here I am just busting my ass like the rest of the world just trying to scrape by in the current times!!! She did it to herself!!!!
The sauce didn't sell well and ended up on clearance. I bet the sauce company lost money. Her pay is probably based on sales.
Her sauce at MOST was always going to be a successful FAD. I think "Chef" Pii got an initial payment and the rest was due to sales and now her lump some ran out. She more than likely lived way beyond her means thinking her sauce was gonna do great things for her bank account. Even when a HUGE Company like Heinze made multi colored ketchup, it was a fad for a couple months. Fads dont last. She just didn't do well with her money and no one else should have to reimburse her lifestyle because of her mistakes.
If it was good and cheaper, i could see it having an ongoing sale. But tasting like ranch and then costs way more? Yeah ill just buy ranch and colour it pink
ngl I miss purple ketchup 😂
You said it
The absolute insanity of this whole thing is the fact that while her brand and life are crumbling one of the biggest pop culture moments thats happening rn is Barbie...... who's whole vibe is pink...... imagine how much money she could have made if she was able to make deals w/ movie theaters for pink sauce as a dipper? How much money she'd make once the movie hit DVD/streaming services for themed movie nights? Definition of "fumbled the bag" omg
Here's a thought I haven't seen mentioned yet - maybe she isn't as hard off as she's letting on, she's just not making the money she expected and spent above her means, so now she's trying to recoup some losses.
I don't usually assume the worst of people but she hasn't exactly shown the world a good image. She's come off as lazy, ignorant, and combative since day one, so it's hard for me to think this isn't just another attempt at her making easy money. No matter what the situation is, I feel bad for her kids. They don't need to be a part of this drama.
...a win is a win. She did it to herself.
..and the whole world wide web will be stupid enough to pay for it.
@@ytrewq12345 the thing is no one bought it when it was in walmart 🤣 the inconsistency of the color is a big factor, i bet
A win what about her kids?
@@erinrockwell8490 you said it. HER KIDS. Should be her responsibility...
I'm pretty sure is not mine, so, no DNA from me....
I have two cats tho, no one asks me about them.... Or I bring them into my problems.
Why people should care? They have a sound mother that can go to fields in Florida or Construction.... I doubt someone will allow her in a kitchen...
@@MercurialSaturnian She should say "You are special" every 20 bucks donated.
Karma in a pinkkkkkish bottle
She has a track record of lying so how can be 100% sure she is not lying for this one too?
I have a hard time imagining that this could end up leading to a legal battle. If Pii can't afford food and clothes for her children and needs to rely on her mother to give her $20 a day, there's no way she can scrounge up the funds to take Dave's Gourmet to court. Even if she did manage to get the funds (maybe her gaslighting friend Karamo can help her) it would all depend on what contract she signed. So if it went to court and it's found that Dave's Gourmet did nothing wrong according to the contract she signed, then she'd be doubly screwed over by the legal fees.
While I do feel badly that she's been put in this situation and that her children are suffering because of it, this is ultimately a hole she dug for herself.
She also claimed that she was a private chef and have a catering company, so how was she in the hole?
Anyone with one working braincell could tell you that scaling your business to a major retailer means you have GOT to have a lawyer to help you go through these contracts. She screwed herself over at every opportunity. I feel really bad for those kids.
Atozy suggested a theory and I think it's really probable. The contract that she signed has a clause that she won't get paid till a certain amount of units are sold and she hasn't reached that goal. If thats the case, and she read the contract and understand what it meant, I think she thought because it went viral, it would be easy. She went viral for her product, potentially being unsafe to eat, which throws people off from it, so in the end not as many units were sold. There's a chance she just didn't understand the contract as well. Sounds like she needed a lawyer way earlier.
I'm begging y'all to stop calling every potential manipulation gaslighting 😂 She's not systematically destroying his grip on reality if she managed to convince of that. She would just have used pity points to manipulate someone that already showed he doesn't look into things before acting. Would be great if could save that one for the actual psychological abuse that gaslighting is. Just saying.
Personally, I honestly don't buy her kids and her are that in a hole to need a GFM though. If she was, she's shown she didn't prioritize money management well enough, even for their sake. Certainly doesn't bode well for any funding being used on her kids.
That part alone says it all though- Pii doesn't do longterm thinking, she reacts in real time to every crisis (for lack of a better term). I feel terribly for her kids, but I'd feel terribly regardless because their mother continues to do things this way. I hope she can wake up and get some help for their sake, but people giving money just enables her.
@@ZoeAlleynefr he had no clue about the situation and made an ass of himself by believing Pii's right with zero evidence and then doubled down repeatedly. He can sit under the shadiest tree and I'd still be throwing some his way.
He literally could've prevented this with a few minutes of googling both of them, it was so easy and yet...
That company should just take her on Dr Phil, call her a hater, and tell her she's not special.
This made me laugh so hard 🤣
How poetic that would be 🤣
When she goes “you’re not special” to the blonde lady on the show, the blonde lady was incredibly gracious, the dynamic reminded me of like a calm babysitter humouring 3 year olds 👀
Don't be so quick to believe that Dave's gourmet is who's screwing her over. Seeing that she is in a person that does our due diligence it seems that she's been spending a lot of money before she even signed this deal. I wouldn't be surprised that she signed it without an attorney looking over it and didn't understand exactly the terms of it
I won't be surprised, she didn't know what FDA was.
Lol
I'm sure Dave's Gourmet was very careful about the wording in that contract because they knew it wouldn't be a continuous source of revenue for them. People will buy it at Walmart not because it's good but because they have heard it's awful. It's a one time purchase and only certain people would be interested. I'm not one of those people though so I can't tell you exactly how bad it is. Also, I wonder if she's really a chef or just calls herself one. It's disturbing to think someone could go to culinary school and know nothing about food safety. I'd think that'd be some of the first stuff they'd be taught.
She's not a trained chef. She called herself that because she cooked for her friend. So, she considered herself a "private chef". That's...thats not how it works! All real chefs know about the FDA and what it means. She made herself look and sound so damn stupid.
as a culinary student, they always teach us food safety, all the corporations and whatnot about food regulations, they teach us temperature control and protocols to keep food safe and edible, pretty sure she just did what a lot of people do, just use the title
Hell you learn a good bit about food safety working a fast food job.
She's 100% a self proclaimed Chef. The kitchen that she used to work out of was a garage that had kitchen equipment in it. Didn't even have a proper fridge.
There's no test or certification to call yourself a chef. Im sure sbe didnt go through any training or anything but technically she doesnt need to
You mean to tell me the lady who didn't know who the FDA is made a bad deal.. Karma at its finest.
I think this is absolutely proof that internet clout does not translate into fame in the real world. Can't take people's emotion and outrage and turn them into a physical product and make money off of it. Or At least the negativity of it.
it did translate into fame. i think you mean riches
chef pi failing at selling her nasty tiktok sauce and refusing to get a real job afterwards doesn’t seem like the internets problem.
It's all on her
Congrats on the weight loss, it’s not an easy task. You can really see it in your face
she could put food on the table if she idk…..just gets a job? sells the material goods that you splurged on?
Yeah, it's not hard to get a job as a cashier just to have a source of income. I got a job working registers at a dollar store with zero job experience
Several months ago, not long after it came out at Walmart, it was put on clearance at my Walmart, so I don’t think it did great.
There was some on clearance at our Walmart too but at the same time the regular shelves still had plenty of bottles at regular price.
I think there's possibly a lot she's not telling people. Also have a feeling that their being silent, plus removing her posts, could mean they're gearing up to sue her and have probably sent a C&D by now. I really hope she had a lawyer go over that contract before she signed it.
Atozy hit it on the head...I'm sure there was a minimum sales requirement before Chef Pi saw any form of payment.
Dave's Gourmet 100% financed the launch of the Pink Sauce in Walmart.
They paid for the food products needed.
They needed to fine tune the recipe to make sure it was a shelf stable product.
They paid for all the packaging.
They made the Walmart deal.
I'm sure Dave's Gourmet needs to be reimbursed for all costs before there would be any profits to split.
Chef Pi did hardly any promotion of Pink Sauce once it hit Walmart, only a couple Tik Toks.
I'm sorry she didn't read the contract. I'm sorry if she can't feed her children.
But if she is a chef and financially supported her family before the Pink Sauce on a Chef's salary, why can't she now?
Agreed! She's a "chef", right? Right??
She needs to get a job instead of taking money from her disabled Mum. That alone says so much about her. 🚩
∆ that, that right there
karma is a bich!! she has been served and will continue her way
Agreed! Love it for her
Maybe someone should hold her hand and tell her she’s not special…
I just wouldn't trust her to use the money for what she says she needs it for. Like she has given us 0 reason to trust her.
All the walmarts in my area is ALWAYS stocked. I've never seen anyone buy let alone look at the pink sauce.
To be fair, the sauce company probably isn’t make anything now either. No one is buying that stuff at Walmart, right? like the color of each bottle isn’t even consistent.
It still isn't consistent? I mean, I'm not surprised
I don't understand why she needs the go fund me. How did she take care of her life prior to the sauce??
As a halfway decent home cook let me tell you that making "a pink sauce" is as easy as making any mayonnaise or cream based sauce & putting a tiny amount of the juices off a boiled beetroot in it. A teaspoon per hundred ml of sauce will do it.
I don't think she's been bamboozled by Dave's Gourmet. I think she thinks the pink sauce is selling better than it actually is because she does have a lot of narcissistic tendencies...js
She deluded herself into thinking she's the next Gordon Ramsay or something and flew too close to the sun. Now she refuses to admit she's fallen and still holds on to her pride. She's a narcissist if I've ever seen one
Feel sorry for her kids, but I think it’s almost funny how much she screwed herself over. Her arrogance has really come to bite her in the ass.
I've wanted to try the sauce, but I didn't want to give money to a lady who doesn't understand why you can't just whip up a dairy product and send it in an envelope through the hot mail, and then 💩 on people who have to explain it to her. 🤔
Anne reardon did make it herself. Her channel is "how to cook that". Its not exactly exactly i suppose, but you can always head there and make your own.
Chef P should have put out the recipe, and then started selling it. Ranch dressing and Tollhouse cookies were recipes before they hit store shelves. Also by putting out the recipe she could have had test marketers because people would have posted adjustments, etc. I don’t feel sorry for her because she was making money before all of this she needs to go back to doing that.
@@MamaMOB This is gonna sound mean, but I think the sauce lady isn't smart enough to research and check what the food preparation guidelines were, remember she calls herself a "chef" and didn't know what FDA meant. 😅
Ranch was created by a dude from Alaska and then sold as a powder first, not a recipe. You can still get it like that. She should have done that, done a dry mix. Joke is on Chef Pii though because it was literally just pink ranch. I tried it and was not impressed because I don't really like ranch dressing. I do use the powder to make other things with. Really good on fries!! I believe you're thinking of Caesar dressing! 😅 Which originated from one Italian restaurant owner that lived on the west coast.
@@fioregialloQuit lyin
@@asmrtpop2676 I'm not, promise lol
She needs to take “chef” out of her name. She is CLEARLY not an actual chef. Or she’d know what the fda does or common food laws.
And Sir Dimples, it Kuh Rah Moe ✌️
Dave's have tons of sauces they sell.. they have restaurants.
I think she's exaggerating or lack of understanding of contracts.. Dave's is a decent sized company. And they're not going to jeopardize getting sued. Ijs..
She already gave her sauce a bad rep.. Dave's would've helped to "revive" it.
I think she's upset that she's not getting more $ like she thought she would. (that's just my input)
she poisoned us, gas lit us, tried to make money off us w a gimmick, failed miserably, signed a dumb deal, now wants US to bail her out 🤣 NO ONE should be helping her. You can’t just “not pay” her if your the company either, she just definitely didn’t know what deal she was signing 😂 otherwise ANY lawyer would take this FREE!
So around Xmas 2022 it was on clearance for $4.48 in my local NC Walmart, Now it's not even there at all! Like they said "No Thanks!"
Wasnt it $20 when it first launched? Thats a major discount. Speaks volume
We are over half way through 2023 and I actually have not laughed harder than I did when she hit us with that iconic line: “WHAT DO YOU MEAN FDA APPROVED? I DONT SELL MEDICAL PRODUCTS.”
Her customers arent important but shes begging them for money? Okay
Honestly? If her life hits the rocks, I won't shed a tear. She hasn't even attended a Chef School. Wouldn't surprise me if she failed to graduate high school.
How much you wanna bet she was so eager for a bag that she signed a contract she didn’t even read. Didn’t negotiate. Nothing. Now she’s mad. 🤦🏾♀️
Here’s an example of her situation… I didn’t do my homework, and then make up tests today. Can someone please give me the answers. That’s what she sounds like.
She didn't do any checking before making the sauce or even think that she should have so it is a fair guess that she wouldn't have thought to look into any company she would work with
Yep at my local Walmart it has been sitting on the same end cap for weeks now.
Dave’s Gourmet pulled a shark tank move on the pink sauce. One of the members of shark tank did the same to a bbq company with a sketchy deal and stole their royalties and now the ppl are broke. I knew Dave’s gourmet was sketchy because they knew how toxic her business ethics is and they knew she didn’t know business that well so they took advantage of a single mom. I’m sure she was sent a cease order and took down her post.
The only Shark Tank product that is doing tremendously (with the original owner) is Scrub Daddy
You’re a nicer person than I am! I have ZERO sympathy for her or her family. She had no problem putting peoples health at risk for her grift. Her karma is justified
Not the fault of her kids, though.
I have no sympathy for her either
I feel bad for her kids, not her. They didn't ask for this and can't help that their mother got too full of herself with her product and behavior.
I mean, it’s hard to feel sorry for her when she gaslit Allie like she did. Like I hope she makes it out of this but actually learns from this this time. (I cringe and roll my eyes to the FDA line every time, it’s ridiculous.)
I saw a full shelf of her sauce on the clearance rack in Walmart. I wouldn’t try that crap of it were free! 🤢
The whole talk show thing was a literal sh*t show! The fact she didn’t know what FDA meant was beyond worrying!
I can barely cook and even I know that the F in FDA stands for Food. That should tell you everything you need to know
Walmart employee here, the sauce is dying on the shelves. I’d be surprised if we sold more than 10
*Takes her by the hand* I mean it when I say this, you’re not special sis. You’re not special, you’ll be okay. 😂 100 points for Gryffindor for people who get the refrence
The amount of care i have for her is so little. I can not feel bad for her own stupid actions. Did she really think her sauce would be a hit with how she acted? Did she really just sign a contract without looking at it
I saw the sauce on clearance at my local Walmart. I don't think it did very well.
People wanting to know what it tasted like and I just assumed it tasted like pepto bismol
Love your videos Markie ☺️
“Seems like the learning is mostly on your part”
“You are not special” (while holding Pi’s hand)
Have taken a whole new meaning. For the childrens sake I hope it has a positive resolution.
The walmart in my town has pink sauce in the clearance spots didnt seem to sell
Just a question: wasnt chef P a private chef? Also for a friend of hers? DId she quit her job? The friend fired her? Im not saying shes lying im just confused
I was gonna say please don’t tell me she’s not signed a contract without a lawyer being present to check it over and make sure she’s not being ripped off
I watched another video on this and they believed that they deal she made had a sale goal where they had to sell a certain amount before she got royalties and the pink sauce was on the discount self about a month after it was released due to poor sales
Poor kids :(
I just don’t understand what’s stopping her from getting a job? Like if you think you have legal grounds, go forth and pursue them, but why not have a job to support your family in the mean time?
Atozy had a commenter that claimed to work at walmart. They said they had never seen a single bottle sell. I wonder if it was still $20 at walmart?
I saw it on a clearance shelf earlier this summer at Walmart
I love that no one has pointed out that the talkshow host is from the Netflix show Queer Eye 😅
Like he's not just a random person..... He's gotta have better resources for research right
We didn’t know because nobody watches Netflix anymore.😂
Dave's Gourmet Sauce is well established!!! They didn't NEED Chef Pii to make their fortune! I am suspicious, I think Chef Pii is crying wolf to some degree!
I work at Walmart in Mason, Wv.
We have pink sauce at our store.
•It’s always fully stocked.
•I’ve never seen anyone buy it.
(Even when it gets marked down when it gets close to its expiration date.)
•We end up claiming it out and giving it to Feed America.
All of the pink sauce I've seen at Walmart has been on the clearance shelf and it's still not being bought
1:28 🤣🤣🤣
Markie should make merch with this!!!
I saw a CZcams on my feed about it and I was waiting for your video 😂😂😂😂
Instead of gatekeeping and selling this stupid sauce, she should of just released a recipe on TikTok and made it a trend to make and try it that way, the sauce selling isn’t even pink which defeats the whole purpose on why it was popular in the first place!
And she’d still be in her private chef job not having these issues
Just got back from Walmart and it's always front and center of the aisles with maybe 1 or 2 bottles gone 😂 I've never seen anyone buy it let alone look at the product. I always chuckle at how many bottles are on the shelves 😂
She won't spend the money on legal fees. As it trickles in she'll spend it on things that she needs for day-to-day life including nail jobs, new phones, shiny bobbles, hair & makeup, things of that nature.
She has not proven herself to be financially responsible why would anyone give her money?
Besides, she's not special.
She's like everyone else's needs to get a job.
Still on the shelves of my store, still doesn't seem to move until it expires
I think they pulled the sauce from the shelves at our Walmart, I haven’t seen it in forever
She could get benefits if she's really down and bad like that 🙃 She put herself in this situation 😬
I work in Walmart. We've sold 5 in a week. We usually only have one case at a time. They're not ordering a lot of it.
I bought the pink sauce and IT WASNT SEALED. so I returned it. It was in the unrefrigerated section. Eggs and milk in the ingredients. 😢 if it was sealed it can be like ranch but if it's not... wtf??
I did see the Pink Sauce the other day in a HyVee, so it was still available as of Sunday. I wasn't ever going to buy it since I'm not big on novelty sauces, but I definitely felt negatively toward it after that interview.
I hope that her family is able to come back from this. Regardless of whether or not someone is a good person, I think everyone deserves basic necessities like food and shelter. I hope she's able to figure out where to go for resources for her family, because they are out there. I'd be nervous of any gofundme of hers potentially being a scam of some sort, though.
I saw it still for sale at Walmart a few weeks ago
Alas, if she doesn't have the funds this will never see the inside of a court room.
This is one infuriating thing about the legal system- it's available to all but only if you can afford it!
The only time I saw the sauce in stores was on the clearance rack at Walmart 😂
I was almost tempted to buy it once, but was like "nah. It's just fancy pink ranch."
I work for Walmart. No it does not sell at least not from my store we end up throwing it out for expiration, and we sell through sauces like crazy just not that one.
Why would anyone want to ingest something they got through the mail from a random person on the internet in the first place?
I never realized how dramatic a sauce mishap could ever be. She could have just shared the ingredients. But at least people took the health risks seriously and stopped the production before anyone could have been seriously hurt. But now she has been f-ed over by capitalism. Hope this situation resolves in the best way possible.
"F-ed over by *capitalism?"* Lol no, she got *"F-ed Over"* by her own ridiculous behavior. She was arrogant in the face of legitimate criticism and literally went on a talk show to shame one of her NICEST critics despite the fact that she could have, AND DID if you believe a lot of the stories, make people sick. If she had approached this responsibly day one minute one instead of getting greedy and rushing to get the sauce out so that she could make money off the hype, she wouldn't be in this situation now.
This is not *capitalism* screwing someone over. This is consequences for foolish behavior.
@@RHBR01 It was her actions that provoked this downfall for sure. However by the definition of capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit., this seems to be the reason this whole situation was even possible. She was chasing the profit in the fastest means possible for her in a capitalistic society. But she definitely should have done her research before doing anything, yet alone signing a contract with a large company that cares only about its profits.
Walmart employee here, i assure u ive never seen anyone buy the pink sauce. Ever
It could also be that sales were crap and there are no royalties owed to her.