Dixie D'Amelio posted a video with the chef whose snail dish inspired the infamous reaction which almost got her canceled

• Dixie D'Amelio invited chef Aaron May onto her YouTube show.
• She and her boyfriend Noah Beck tried food that he served.
• A few months ago, May made a dish that inspired D'Amelio to react in disgust, which almost got her canceled.

Influencer Dixie D'Amelio invited chef Aaron May onto her YouTube show "The Early Late Night Show" a few months after he served her family a dish with snails that inspired a reaction from her that was widely criticized.

D'Amelio has over 50 million TikTok followers. She began posting regularly on YouTube about a year ago and has 7.4 million subscribers on the platform. On Sunday, April 25, she uploaded a video entitled "I Ate Disgusting Food With Noah."

D'Amelio introduced May for a segment of her show, calling him her "BFF." May explained that D'Amelio and her boyfriend, fellow TikTok star Noah Beck, would be taking part in a game. The premise was they would both eat a bite of the unusual foods that were presented to them.

"We will go up the ladder of more interesting, challenging, exotic, delicious foods until one of you taps out," May said. "When one of you taps out, the other, the winner, will decide which dish the other one has to finish."

The challenge started out with a plate of potato chips, then some canned ham, and some grapes.

May then served up lychees, $500 caviar, and gefilte fish - a dish of ground white fish traditionally served on Jewish holidays. D'Amelio nearly gave up when the gefilte fish made her gag, but persisted into the final rounds where they were presented with Pacific sardines, then Habanero peppers - a very hot chili pepper rated at 100,000-350,000 ("volcanic") on the Scoville scale, which measures the pungency of peppers and chilies from zero to 15,000,000,000.

The last time Chef May collaborated with the D'Amelio family in November 2020, Dixie's younger sister Charli - TikTok's biggest creator with 114 million followers - lost over a million followers (although she gained them back a few days later). The family posted a YouTube video in which May made them a paella, but viewers criticized the sisters, saying they appeared rude and ungrateful for the food.

Charli later apologized in a tearful livestream, where she called the situation a "misunderstanding," while Dixie posted a TikTok where she said it had been "ridiculously blown out of proportion."

The video was criticized because Charli and Dixie were seen making faces at each other to indicate their dislike of the menu. Dixie then found a snail on her plate, smelled it, and started gagging.

May confirmed it was a snail and said it was a classic ingredient in paella and was "an omen of good luck and fortune."

Dixie then tried it and promptly turned around in her chair as if she were going to be sick.

"So dramatic," said the D'Amelios' mother, Heidi. "Get up, excuse yourself."

After she ran outside, the younger D'Amelio sister then asked, "Do we have any dino nuggets?"

Viewers described the sisters' behavior as "disrespectful" and "embarrassing" in the YouTube comments below the video, which received 224,000 dislikes.

However, Chef May said in an interview with influencer paparazzi The Hollywood Fix a few days later that the snail had been planted by the production team, and it was "all fun and games."

"I love Dixie and Charli," he said. "I've worked with them before, I'm gonna work with them again. I think it's a little blown out of proportion."