Beloved Cork TikToker Richie's Food and Nature debuted his very own food truck at Electric Picnic this weekend - and his latest video shows just how different social media is from the real world. If you looked at Richie's comments section while the festival was on - you would have thought the launch of the van was a total disaster with people telling him the food looked like 'dirt' and saying his prices were a 'rip off'. Richie was quick to defend his prices online , pointing out that it "costs a lot to be at a festival", with some followers adding that the overheads are huge and that what he was charging was pretty standard for a festival.
READ MORE: Cork Airport announces new year-round service to Glasgow and extra flights on popular route READ MORE: How to get Electric Picnic 2025 tickets: Avoid FOMO with sale just days away His end of the weekend update proved that his actual experience in Stradbally was far more positive than the internet would lead you to believe - his food was so popular that he completely sold out of stock: "the only people doing any sort of whinging were the people online, the people that never even came to the f***ing festival". "We had a great time, sold completely out of food. My god, what a laugh.
I'm absolutely wrecked but it was brilliant, and to everybody whinging, you're going to have to whinge some more, we sold completely out of food. "Out of about 1,500 sales, there were two complaints. One was about a burnt bun and the other said her burg.