The “Don’t Be Shy Put Some More” Meme Takes The Piss Out Of Stingy Restaurants
The "don't be shy, put some more" TikTok trend tries to scare fast-food workers into dishing out a little more food.
Everyone’s experienced the feeling of watching a fast food worker scoop a minimal amount of ingredients into your meal, and thought “please, God just put some more.”
The feeling truly transcends cuisines and is applicable to places like a Thai takeaway all the way to the kebab shop that only ever half-fills your hot chips box. It truly hurts to pay $12 for a honey chicken and rice and to only be given a measly four bits of meat. But while the desire for more is a collective feeling for everyone, none of us have ever had the guts to communicate this to the person serving us.
But TikTok user @prettygirlandcoolboy has now blessed us with vision of what this would look like for the fast-food worker. Placing her phone above her head while looking up, user408503 acts out what it would be like to make the request. “Don’t be shy. Put some more. Put some more. Come on, don’t be shy. PUT SOME MORE,” she says while never breaking eye contact.
In the description of the video she writes: “POV: You work at Chipotle and I’m the customer who is constantly making you uncomfortable by asking you to add more of everything on my plate.”
The TikTok resonated so well with everyone that the weird huge-head angle and audio quickly became it’s own meme. The extended forehead is achieved using the ultra-wide camera on the iPhone 11 to distort how you really look. Even big influencers on the app, like James Charles and Charli D’amelio, joined in on the trend and didn’t mind how ugly the angle made them look.
Without the super-creepy head angle, others just used the audio to reference equally relatable food situations — like not getting enough meat in a buffet-style Chinese takeaway and when you don’t want the grated parmesan at an Italian restaurant to ever end.
For everyone else, the “don’t be shy, put some more” meme was just used to highlight their least likeable physical attributes, which, honestly? Are somehow also still extremely relatable too.