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Andrew Watt revealed one of Ozzy Osbourne’s more hidden talents.
In an interview with PEOPLE, the Grammy-winning producer, whose roster includes artists like Paul McCartney, Ozzy Osbourne and the Rolling Stones, claims the late rock icon — who died at the age of 76 in July — could eat a burrito in record time.
“He famously loved burritos,” says Watt, 35.
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While the New York-born writer and producer claims he could eat a burrito “pretty quickly” in about five to 10 minutes, Watt says that Osbourne out did him
“He would take the burrito, he’d bite it once on the left, once on the right, and then once he could get his mouth around [it], the burrito was gone,” says Watt. “The guy could f—ing eat a full burrito in about 30 seconds.”
Watt said watching him do that was “one of the funniest things in the world.”
He also recalls a time when Osbourne asked him to order what he called “chicken pancakes” while he was ordering Mexican food. As Black Sabbath frontman kept insisting on “chicken pancakes,” Watt remained confused.
“I was like, ‘Oh, the chicken quesadillas.’ He loved these chicken quesadillas so much that he called them ‘chicken pancakes,'” says Watt.
Soon after, they began eating burritos together.
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According to Watt, he would be “all over the world,” and Osbourne — who loved a particular Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles called Escuela Taqueria — would ask the super-producer to order him a burrito from the restaurant on Postmates.
“I [would] Postmates him Mexican food once a week from all over the world, anytime he wanted it, because just getting someone in his house to Postmates [it] for him the way he liked it with the way I ordered it, was just a whole thing,” recalls Watt.
He then noted how the “War Pigs” musician was like his “big brother.”
Watt produced Osbourne’s final albums, Ordinary Man in 2020 and Patient Number 9 in 2022, while Osbourne was recovering from an accident in 2019. He previously told PEOPLE that working on the project with the Prince of Darkness was the first time he realized “that music was something bigger than just making songs.”
According to Watt, the music gave Osbourne “a purpose when he didn’t feel well.”
