Skrilla’s “67” chant made chicken nugget history, and now Perdue’s suing Soules Kitchen over who copied who.
Skrilla built a meme that turned into a full-blown trademark war between two chicken companies, and he isn’t getting a dime from either side of it.
Skrilla never filed for any of the trademarks now sitting in a Virginia courtroom, even though he’s watched the number take over arenas nationwide since his song first went viral.
Perdue Foods filed a federal lawsuit against John Soules Foods on June 23, accusing the rival company of ripping off the packaging behind its 6 7 Chicken Nuggets line.
The suit landed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and asks for a jury trial, a recall of the disputed packaging, and financial damages tied to lost shelf space. Perdue traces its rights back to April 27, when the company started shipping its marked nuggets across state lines nationwide.
The whole fight traces straight back to Skrilla’s 2025 hit “Doot Doot (6 7),” the song that turned two random digits into one of the biggest slang crazes young people have used in years.
Perdue leaned into that energy in April when it launched 6 7 Chicken Nuggets nationwide at Walmart, complete with cartoon hands gripping breaded nugget-shaped numerals, according to the complaint filed in federal court.
Soules Kitchen followed about a month later with its own 67 Chicken Nuggets, set to hit Kroger and ALDI shelves in July, and Perdue says the near-identical look already cost the company a major retail deal.
Perdue’s complaint even points to a comment under a Dexerto post claiming someone spotted “67 nuggets” at Walmart weeks before Soules’ version ever shipped there, arguing it proves real consumer confusion already exists.
Perdue’s lawyers sent Soules a cease-and-desist letter on June 9, and Soules wrote back eight days later, refusing to change a single thing about its packaging.
The meme that started as a throwaway rap hook has since gotten a nod from a former vice president’s campaign account and a hand gesture from Pope Leo XIV, and it still shows zero signs of slowing down.
Perdue is also asking the court to award its attorneys’ fees and force Soules Kitchen to file a sworn report proving it pulled every piece of the disputed packaging within 30 days of any order.
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