Cringing moment American YouTuber takes an awkward first bite of an Australian meat pie: ‘What was that?’
- YouTuber Mark Weins was criticized for eating meat pies
- He took a giant bite as the pie crumbled in his hands
- He first visited Australia from March to April
A popular US YouTube foodie has been criticized for his ‘gruesome’ attempt to eat a meat pie in Australia.
Mark Weins stopped by the iconic staple food while visiting the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in March.
Mr Weins has been blogging since 2009 and has amassed a following of 10 million subscribers with his videos documenting his travels and taste tests around the world.
He uploaded footage from his visit to Melbourne to his YouTube channel on Monday to document his experience.
Social media users were stunned after seeing him attempt to take the cake.
American food blogger and YouTuber Mark Weins has been criticized for his first bite of a meat pie (pictured) which was labeled ‘hideous’ and ‘disturbing’ online
Before taking a bite of the pie, the YouTuber in the video exclaims, “This is the most Aussie beef pie.”
Images then show how the gourmet grabs the cake and takes a large bite while trying to prevent the cake from falling apart completely.
“Basically, you pick it up and just take a huge bite, as big a bite as you can,” he told his YouTube viewers.
He then expressed his desire to burn his mouth on the pie as he takes a huge bite as his fingers go through the dough and it falls apart in his hand.
“It just collapses as you eat it,” he says.
“That’s the real thing.”
Footage of the bizarre attempt was shared on Reddit where social media users held back.
“Absolutely slaughtered,” one wrote.
‘What the hell was that? I’ve never seen anyone eat a meat pie like that,” added another.
“You’d think a food blogger would have less trouble getting food into his goddamn mouth lol,” a third commented.
“This is shocking,” a fourth wrote to which another replied, “I thought to myself, how bad can it be? My night is now ruined.’
Weins (left) has been blogging since 2009 and travels the world filming food videos. In March he traveled to Australia for the first time for the Food and Wine Festival
Wein’s food tastings are iconic filled with big bites followed by an “oh” or a “wow” with many YouTube and Reddit compilations of his responses.
The YouTuber describes herself online as “an eater, traveller, author, blogger, video host, a coffee drinker and some other random stuff, but most of all I love good food.”
He lives in Thailand with his wife, but regularly travels the world blogging his adventures for his nearly 10 million subscribers.