During one of his 15 dates at New York’s Madison Square Garden, on Saturday night Styles was pelted with chicken nuggets and briefly halted the show to address the “very interesting approach,” Variety reported.

“Who threw the chicken nugget?” he shouted with a smirk on his face, holding the cold piece of fried food up for the crowd to see as another nugget landed on the stage. “It’s another chicken nugget!” When the crowd began chanting an invitation for him to eat it, Styles explained, “I don’t eat chicken, sorry! I don’t eat meat.”

“First of all,” he said while picking up the second nugget, “This is cold. And I’m assuming very old.” By this point, the singer went back and forth with the audience as he asked if they wanted the nugget back. “Why? Because! Don’t eat it,” he advised as he chucked the chicken back into the crowd. “Now it’s on the floor. Don’t go looking for it, we’ll get you another nugget.”