TikTok’s ‘onion lady’ is going viral for scarfing down food combos no one else would try

Courtney Cook, an English teacher and mom of four, is going viral on TikTok for her ‘teacher snack’ videos, where she gobbles down meals that would make most people lose their lunch.

Cook’s TikTok page is almost completely dedicated to her bizarre culinary escapades, where she combines ingredients like seaweed and cottage cheese, hard-boiled eggs and mac n’ cheese powder, or soup dumplings and melted munster cheese.

Her broad culinary palette for unique flavor combos has earned her over 1 million followers on TikTok, and her videos trying out these interesting eats regularly garner millions of views each.

Cook’s comments are almost always filled with remarks like, “You are the most interesting person I have witnessed,” or, “I just know that no food is wasted in your household.”

This teacher is inspiring TikTok to try unusual food combos

Cook has even compared herself to a ‘raccoon,’ owing to the fact that she sometimes eats parts of fruits or vegetables that most wouldn’t, like the time she ate a leftover broccoli stalk with her seaweed and cottage cheese combo.

She’s stated that her favorite singular food is “probably cheese,” but she especially prefers a “cheese and onion” combo. Cook is crazy about onions and is affectionately known as the “onion lady”; she chowed down on an ‘onion boil’ with her munster cheese soup dumplings in a Q&A video in November, which she covered in kewpie mayonnaise and spicy Korean buldak paste.

Cook’s life outside of her viral videos is even more interesting; she is a bonsai hobbyist and is even a member of the Atlanta Bonsai Society, having collected and grown seven trees.

She’s a mom to four children and has been married for 15 years. Between taking care of her home, working full-time as a teacher, and raising her chickens, it’s a wonder that Cook has time to make videos at all.

Her viral videos have inspired viewers to try some of her off-the-wall combos, with one viewer jokingly demanding that she “apologize to my Uber Eats driver for the oddest order I’ve ever made at 10 PM.”

Cook’s combos are the latest odd foods to take TikTok by storm after luxury grocery chain Erewhon released a ‘toothpaste smoothie’ in November, leaving critics split.