Acclaimed romance author Nicholas Sparks is going viral on social media after sharing his chicken salad recipe, but fans appear to be taking issue with one of the ingredients.

A recent feature of the "Notebook" author revealed a chicken salad recipe with a shocking secret ingredient. So of course I had to try it.

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“He then whipped together a dressing consisting of mayonnaise, dill pickle relish, jalapeño relish, apple cider vinegar, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and 16 packets of Splenda,” recounts Morfoot.

I t’s the overly saccharine collab of the century! A new profile of best-selling author Nicholas Sparks in the New York Times’s real-estate section has raised the question: Ho