Check Your Fact and PolitiFact found no such post in Bourdain’s account or checked archives. The screenshot pretends to show a May 22, 2018 tweet; the contemporaneous posts they checked concern other subjects. The fabricated image’s creator remains unidentified.
“This might be the best bat soup I ever had in my life. Someday everyone's gonna be talking about Wuhan” Fabricated tweet falsely attributed to Anthony Bourdain; creator unknown.
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No genuine Bourdain tweet containing these words was established.
Check Your Fact and PolitiFact found no such post in Bourdain’s account or checked archives. The screenshot pretends to show a May 22, 2018 tweet; the contemporaneous posts they checked concern other subjects. The fabricated image’s creator remains unidentified. Check Your Fact investigation ↗
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Check Your Fact and PolitiFact found no such post in Bourdain’s account or checked archives. The screenshot pretends to show a May 22, 2018 tweet; the contemporaneous posts they checked concern other subjects. The fabricated image’s creator remains unidentified. Check Your Fact investigation ↗
The screenshot borrowed the appearance of a verified Twitter account and an earlier timestamp. Investigators checked the real account and contemporaneous posts, which concerned different subjects. Their finding concerns the authenticity of the quotation, not a general claim about the pandemic’s origins. Check Your Fact investigation ↗
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Quotle.info. “Who really said ‘This might be the best bat soup I ever had in my life. Someday everyone's gonna be talking about Wuhan’?” Last verified 9 Nov 2026. https://quotle.info/who-said/this-might-be-the-best-bat-soup-i-ever-had-in-my-life/