Us New Yorkers know that there never really is a quiet day in New York City, but one thing we can’t quite say we saw on our 2024 bingo card was an anoymous man eating an entire tub of cheeseballs in the middle of Union Square Park.
The bizarre (yet hilariously entertaining) event all went down on Saturday, April 27th when hundreds–yes, literally hundreds–of people gathered to watch an anonymous man, dubbed “Cheeseball Man” in a bright orange ski mask eat an entire jar of cheeseballs.
But how did we end up here?
It all began when mysterious posters began popping up around NYC in the weeks leading up to the main event. The sign was a photo of the the man in his ski mask holding the tub of cheeseballs, reading:
Watch me eat this entire jar of cheeseballs. Union Square Park. April 27th 3pm.
And, apparently, that’s all it took to draw in curious New Yorkers.
The event went down as planned, and felt kind of like when people form in a dance circle, only the act of busting out one’s best moves was replaced with, instead, cheeseball eating. After the spectacle–which was completed in a mere 30 minutes, by the way–he even ran around waving a flag that donned a photo of himself, signing autographs and shaking people’s hands with his cheese-dusted hands.
Two days after the event Cheeseball Man, who’s apparently a recent NYU grad, told ABC News he “didn’t really expect [that] many people to show up,” adding:
There was a moment that I was definitely going to throw up, and then people said ‘keep it down’ really loudly so I just kept it in.
If you missed it don’t be upset–not only are videos of the event plastered all over social media (so you can live vicariously through them), but Cheeseball Man also told ABC News that he hopes to embark on another cheeseball mission next year, that time with an even bigger tub.
We’ll definitely be marking our calendars for that!