Brooklyn Beckham's Burnt Pasta Video Sparks Backlash, and His Ross Geller Meme Response Is Peak Clapback

Brooklyn Beckham made spaghetti all’assassina on Instagram this weekend, and the comments section wasted no time. The dish, a crispy, charred Puglia specialty made without boiling the pasta, is supposed to look a little burnt. But viewers zeroed in on the tomato paste, the Rao’s jar sauce, the store-bought stock, and the pre-peeled garlic, and the reviews were brutal.“Basically burnt pasta with jar sauce,”one commenter wrote.“That looks dreadful,”said another. At least one fan pushed back, calling it a fair interpretation of the regional classic.

Beckham didn’t write a long caption or issue an apology. He posted a Friends meme of David Schwimmer’s Ross doing a fist-bump version of flipping the bird, and honestly, it might be the most effective celebrity clapback of the month. It’s his second cooking controversy of 2026, following an August video where he cooked pasta with seawater. Beckham, 27, is a hot sauce entrepreneur and former photographer, which means the internet gets to relitigate whether he’s a real chef roughly every other month.

So here’s the real debate: does it matter if the sauce came from a jar, or is a crispy, edible plate of pasta a win no matter what? And is a meme response the smartest way to handle the internet, or does it just keep the conversation going? Drop your take in the comments, and tell us the worst meal you’ve ever posted online.