Boy's viral reaction to winning free Chick-fil-A for a year: 'I like fried chicken!'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An 11-year-old boy’s reaction to getting a year’s worth of free Chick-fil-A has gone viral. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
An 11-year-old boy’s reaction to getting a year’s worth of free Chick-fil-A has gone viral.
Young Sam Caruana was one of 100 people who waited outside a west New York restaurant in Cheektowaga for a chance to win the coveted prize.
What Caruana didn’t know was that his on-camera response to winning would make him an Internet sensation.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“11-year-old Sam just won free Chick-fil-A for a year,” WGRZ reporter tweeted along with a video interview she conducted with Caruana. “I think we can all relate ...”
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Caruana, wearing a Buffalo Bills hoodie, is standing outside in the blistering cold outside the Chick-fil-A store.
“Well, uh, I’m here in the freezing cold getting free chicken sandwiches,” he said. “Because the food tastes great. I mean, it’s chicken, fried chicken, fried chicken. I like fried chicken!”
His interview quickly went viral on Twitter with more than 7 million views and over 20,000 comments.
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An 11-year-old boy’s hilarious reaction to getting a year’s worth of free Chick-fil-A has gone viral. (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)
“He's got a ‘44-year-old divorced dad’ vibe,” one person tweeted. “He speaks for a generation, let him lead us,” another Twitter user wrote.
Another person tweeted, “Kid talks like he has been through life twice already.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}”Calling this kid my hero still doesn't even do him justice. Absolute legend,” another person said.
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Caruana went back to the Chick-fil-A store on Thursday to take advantage of his new prize for the first time.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"I was amazed. I didn't realize how viral it was going to go," he said about the video.