Watch a Reese's Peanut Butter cup undergo an Oreo transplant - CNET

The strangest things can be captivating.

If you told me a video of someone slicing into a clementine with a scalpel would hold my attention for a full three minutes and sixteen seconds, I would have scoffed. Then I watched just that on a new YouTube channel launched by an anonymous user who goes by the name of The Food Surgeon, and I was hooked.

While watching the annoyingly named "Cutie" clementine getting sliced up was disturbingly satisfying, I became an instant fanboy of The Food Surgeon through his next video, in which he performs a "Reese's Peanut-Butter-Ectomy with Oreo Cream Transplant."

The procedure is pretty much what you'd imagine (if you have a really bizarre imagination). The food surgeon carefully slices open the top of a Reese's cup, removes the chocolate disc and then all of the peanut butter filling, which somehow put me in mind of brain surgery -- or a scene from "Silence of the Lambs." He then inserts two discs of creamy filling from Oreo cookie, reattaches the Reese's skull -- uh I mean chocolate disc -- and creates what is truly a frankenfood, and something I'd really, really like to eat.

You might remember that not too long ago a series of videos with people whispering and rubbing and tapping on objects became popular as a way to help folks fall asleep. I have a feeling food surgery might just become 2016's version of that.