Salt Bae: Who and what is it? VIDEO

#saltbae

What the HELL is this madness all about?

2017... meet your first meme!

HERE is the video that started it all:

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SO. Who is this internet marvel?

He's basically a Turkish chef named Nurset Gokce, and he's a good looking dude minding his own beeswax, who carved up a (bloody delicious and tender looking) steak, and then SPRINKLED THAT SHIT with kindness, I mean, salt... in SUCH a dramatic way it almost (*definitely) seems comical.

With his white, V neck tshirt and uber cool sunnies he salts that steak like nobody's business, and clearly someone spotted this clip from this well known chef and sent his star positively stratospeheric.

Hello: 'Salt Bae'.

Even talk show host James Corden even called it “the most erotic” thing he’s ever seen:



And more salt bae madness before he became salt bae...

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