This Cheesy Snack Is TikTok’s Latest Obsession

The creator of the latest TikTok food trend doesn’t know what to call it, but the commenters sure do.

“Pickle in a blanket: A Picklet!”

“A chickle!”

“I call it, ‘I’m making this immediately.’”

In the viral TikTok about her self-described “guilty pleasure” of a pickle wrapped in fried cheese, Claire Snyder (@clurmurr on TikTok) says that though her husband thinks it’s “gross,” she’s posting because she’s sure her fellow pickle people are out there.

And she was right. Her video has over 12.7 million views, 1.6 million likes and almost 50,000 comments, most of them complimentary. She sprays a pan with oil, fries a slice of provolone until it melts, tops it with a dill pickle spear and folds the crispy, browned cheese around it like a toasty quilt. “You hear that crunch?” she says, around a mouthful of pickle and provolone. “I don’t care if anyone says this is gross. It’s amazing.”

I caught up with Snyder, and she told me she’s surprised at the degree to which her simple snack has “uncovered a large group of people who share a lot of love for pickles,” some as far away as the U.K. It’s apparent this is an idea whose time has come, based as it is on near-universally beloved flavors and similar guilty pleasures.  “Mine is Swiss cheese and dill pickles but never have fried the cheese! Genius!” one person commented on her original video. Others suggest trying cheddar or dipping in ranch.

Snyder says she came up with this treat…