Bizarre: Hundreds Gather In NYC To Watch A Masked Man Eat A Tub Of Cheeseballs

Hundreds of people gathered in New York to witness a bizarre challenge: seeing a masked man devour a full tub of cheeseballs. An anonymous man who goes by the name “cheeseballman427” on both Instagram and TikTok, caught the fancy of many after he invited people to watch him eat an entire jar of cheeseballs on Saturday at 3 pm in Union Square Park. He did not explain his move, but the idea was bizarre enough to intrigue people nonetheless. A large jar of Utz Cheese Balls comes in 35 ozs which is close to a kilo. Eating this quantity of cheeseballs in one go is only suited for professional speed eaters.

Finally, on Saturday afternoon a large crowd showed up to cheer the anonymous and unlikely celebrity. Videos of the cheeseball-eating spectacle show the masked man slowly eating the cheeseballs as people continue the chants of “Cheeseball Man – Cheeseball Man” and “Eat those cheese balls.” When “cheeseball man” reaches the last cheeseball, he holds it in the air and the crowd breaks into thunderous applause. After he takes the last bite, someone from the crowd crowns the “cheeseball man” with a traffic cone.

This incident shows how some of the simplest and strangest things can bring people together just for the sake of having fun. Commenting on a video of the Cheeseman man, an X user wrote, “Some days I think of leaving NYC and then I see something like this and I am instantly certain there is no greater city on Earth.”

People also shared selfies with the masked celebrity. Some also took his autograph, which was just “CB 47” in capital letters.

The “cheeseball man” spoke to The Independent and said that he was surprised to see so many people. The 22-year-old said that at one point he was about to throw up but managed to finish the jar because of the crowd’s cheering. He added that he has a mild gluten allergy which made the task of finishing the whole jar of cheeseballs difficult. He recalled, “I’ve always had a bit of a gluten allergy. I get kind of bloated upon eating gluten. I thought that the cheese balls that I had gotten were actually gluten-free. but they weren’t. But I gotta power through it for the sake of the crowd, you know?”