A food influencer was called out on camera by a Wetherspoons punter for attempting a breakfast challenge for TikTok.
Becca Stock, better known on TikTok as @beccaeatseverything was at The Regal pub in Gloucester on Monday (19 May), when she received some verbal abuse from a local.
The 28-year-old took on a challenge, which involved ordering almost every item on the Spoons brekkie menu, and rating them for her social media channels.
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But when the Brit was getting stuck into her third dish of what would be a 20-dish extravaganza, a man that appeared to be 'drunk' suddenly called her out for ordering as much as she did while filming it.
He branded it as 'absolutely disgusting', which resulted in the food influencer hitting back and him and labelling him as a 'disgusting human being', with the camera still rolling. Have a listen:
The punter scathingly claimed: "You're just sat there eating like a f**king piglet."
Becca couldn't believe what she was hearing, saying he was 'the worst person' she'd ever met and pointed him out to staff, who went on to kick him out after he finished his drink.
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She still isn't sure if the 'beer-bellied' pub-goer was annoyed at her goal of eating so much, or that it may result in food wastage, though Becca admitted that it was a struggle to complete the £70 food review.
But with over three million views on the video and countless compliments from viewers, the Brit pointed out: "I was just shocked and I wasn't going to let someone talk to me like that. I wasn't hurt by it."
Recalling that he started talking to her partner at first, she also pointed out: "Because I've dealt with a lot of hate online, you do keep yourself calm a little but I thought 'hang on, you don't get to say those things to me when you don't know anything about what I'm doing'."
Becca said it was 'weird' for him to call her a 'f**king piglet', noting that he must have been in his 60s and that he was slurring his words.
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"I assume he was brought over by the fact he saw so many plates. Perhaps he was a bit shocked," she suggested.
Becca admitted that she still doesn't know why he was upset as he 'didn't give me a reason', saying: "He was just drunk and miserable."
Below the post, she wrote that she was 'shaken up' at the comments, praised staff at The Regal for being 'amazing' and said she was 'gutted' he wasn't seen on video.
With eight dishes on the table at the time, the influencer had ordered a number of meals, such as a traditional full English breakfast, a vegetarian breakfast, savoury muffins, scrambled eggs on toast and fruit with yoghurt.
"It was verbal harassment and it was really uncalled for. He could have just enquired and given his opinion," she suggested.
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Claiming that it's nobody's business, Becca explained that she aims to avoid food wastage by bringing plastic tubs with her to take away anything they couldn't finish.
She explained: "We give it to foxes, birds, our dog and then we eat everything we can eat. With this job there's food wastage but I don't want stacks of food left on the table."
The influencer highlighted that she started 'visibly shaking at one point in the video', struggling to speak at all.
While one user pointed out that she 'handled that so well' and another wrote that they were 'sorry this happened', not everyone was so sympathetic.
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A different user pointed out: "People are just getting sick of influencers," to which Becca replied: "If you're sick of influencers, stop using social media. We literally create content for people to consume for free and work hard for it."
She didn't report the incident to the police, and only decided to film herself trying the challenge the night before the video.
Wetherspoons declined to comment when contacted.
Topics: Food And Drink, Social Media, TikTok, Wetherspoons, UK News
Joshua Nair