New York Man Goes To Company Dinner, Whispers Something To The Server. Then The Server Exposes Him In Front Of The Whole Table: ‘Co-Workers Would Never See My Face Ever Again’

A New York man has gone viral for preventing food waste at a company dinner. The only problem was the server.

Taking leftovers from a restaurant has always been a divisive subject. It has previously been debated whether it’s a first date “ick” or whether eating someone else’s untouched food is gross.

With this in mind, TikTok user Aidan Blake (@ayeblayblay) tried to employ a level of discretion when he tried to take home food from a company dinner. Unfortunately, it seems like the server didn’t cotton on to this fact.

Holding the vibrant bag of leftovers, Blake begins the video by saying, “All right some real shady s— went down. I was at a company dinner, and they cleared all these shared plates, and no one was gonna eat them. And they were gonna throw them away, and so I go to the waiter really quietly like, ‘Hey do you mind packing those up for me?’” he recounts. “[The waiter is] like ‘Yeah yeah, I got you I got you’” But then, he proceeds to say to Blake in front of the rest of the table, ‘Hey, do you want the table’s leftovers still?’”

Reenacting his response, Blade holds his hand to his head and awkwardly mumbles, “‘Yeah … just… right down on the floor is fine. Thank you.’”

The waiter then apparently responded by saying, “‘All right, here’s all the leftovers!’”

Then He Asked About Dessert

When describing what happened next, Blake admitted, “I should have known better.” Nonetheless, he was drawn to the dessert because there was “a big thing of berries that were gonna go uneaten.”

“And I go [to the waiter], ‘Hey, I don’t need another bag, I don’t need a big thing, do you mind putting those berries in a little takeaway container so I can take those too?’”

The server then comes over with a second bag and asks, ‘Do you want all the dessert leftovers still?’

Blake then clarifies that it’s just the berries, and the server responds by saying, ‘Yep, the dessert leftovers.’”

“Yeah, so basically I got outed as a big back out there today,” he concludes.

The video garnered 66,900 views.

BroBible reached out to the TikToker via email.

‘He Did You So Dirty’

Some commenters suspected the server was salty.

“Lol they weren’t gonna throw them away the staff were gonna eat them and he was p—–!” one wrote. “Lolol.”

“He was annoyed because the waitstaff were planning on taking it home,” a second added.

A third agreed, “You just know the waiter was planning on doing the same thing with those leftovers.”

Others commended the TikToker for his attitude towards food waste.

“I love that you were being resourceful and not letting food go to waste and getting the most out of your dining experience,” a fourth said.

“He did you so dirty,” a fifth said. “But I applaud you for not wasting leftovers.”

And a sixth commented, “My hero, the number of times I’ve seen tasty tasty food just get left.”

What Does ‘Big Back’ Mean?

At the end of the video, the TikToker refers to himself as a “big back.” But what exactly does that mean? According to Urban Dictionary, “big back” is a term often used in urban and Black communities to describe overweight people. The term has been popularized across social media in the last couple of years. Since then, according to the site, it has extended to include people that eat a lot and can be considered “foodies.”

As reported by USA TODAY, the term has especially popped off on TikTok and can be seen in the captions of videos of cooking or eating a big meal.

Tyler D. Parry is an associate professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He told the publication that the term “is like folklore to some degree — you can’t pinpoint the exact moment it started but you can pinpoint moments where it became popularized.”

“Some people trace it back to this idea in African American pop culture that having ‘back’ was a compliment, meaning you have a nice derrière, like in the Sir Mix-A-Lot song, ‘Baby Got Back,’” Parry notes. “The degree to which that’s attached to the recent term of ‘Big Back’ is hard to determine, but it might have been appropriated and given a different context.”

He added, “Alliteration can disarm the idea that it’s offensive. ‘Big Back’ sounds very different from, for example, ‘Fat a–’ which seems more aggressive.”