‘Rock, paper, scissors food challenge’: TikTok food trend explained

The ‘Rock, paper, scissors food challenge’ is a viral trend on TikTok, which sees creators compete with their friends and family for a delicious meal.

The challenge involves playing rock, paper, scissors to determine who can take a bite of food whilst the other runs laps. It’s likely to have originated from the popular TikTok food trend, ‘dinner date challenge’ that was going viral in 2023.

While the dinner date challenge involved couples playing rock, paper, scissors to decide who picked the entrée, main, and dessert; this trend adds an element of competition to the original food challenge.

To try out this challenge, all you need to do is order a meal from your favorite fast food place with a friend and set it up in front of the camera outside or somewhere with enough room to run a short distance.

The aim of the game is to play rock, paper, scissors, and the person who wins gets to start eating the food. The loser though, has to go for a short run.

When they get back from their jog, you’ll have to play again. This process repeats until the meal is finished, and you could end up not even getting to enjoy a single bite.

This is the perfect TikTok trend for people who hate sharing food because you have to eat as much as possible while the other person does some exercise.

Or if you’re a fitness fanatic, you might enjoy running with a mouth full of fries. One person on TikTok commented: “This is the first food challenge I actually stayed and didn’t get bored. Credit.”

These videos just get funnier as they go on and the rock, paper, scissors food challenge is a great trend to try out if you have any pent-up beef with a friend who never shares their food.

If you still have room for dessert after trying out this TikTok food trend, why not try making a candy salad?