The NyQuil Chicken, also known as Sleepy Chicken, is a notorious 'cursed' food meme involving chicken breasts cooked in cold and flu medication. While the concept first appeared on 4chan as early as 2017, it exploded into the mainstream in 2022 following a series of viral TikTok videos, eventually leading to a formal safety warning from the FDA. The meme is typically used to represent dangerous internet challenges, extremely poor decision-making, or the peak of absurdist 'cursed' imagery. In the meme community, the distinct blue-green hue of the chicken has become a visual shorthand for something that is both hilarious and fundamentally wrong.