People who use an ice-cream scoop to dish up their mashed potato

[DrizzleMySwizzle]

Please desist. It’s psychopath behaviour and it repulses me.

Just slap a spoon of mash on the plate like a civilized person. Cannot bear those creepy little 'oh I look a bit like ice-cream but I'm not ice-cream' mounds.

Thank you for abiding by this new culinary law from this day forward.

Who does this?

I've never tried that. You've just put temptation in my path...

Have you been time travelling back to school dinners from the 1970s?

My Mum used to do this. I am laughing so much now!

I have never seen this apart from school dinners back in the day.

This was the serving suggestion of choice in my primary school in the early 80s, complete with a fine layer of crispiness from shoving the massive tray of potato scoops under a hot lamp for an hour or two to keep warm.

Fil does this

I kinda like it

Like black forest gâteau

Surely this was only an issue in 1974.

Yes school dinner mash! I think my Gran used to do this too - personally I quite like it, nice and tidy.

You've just reminded me about this from primary school dinners back in the early seventies. 🤣

I'd forgotten about it and have never done it. Now though, I must dig my ice-cream scoop out next time we have mashed potato. 😉🤣

Those scoops though, you’ve just triggered a major flashback OP!

That scuffed metal with the loose rolly pale blue wooden handle!

Me 🙋‍♀️

I was momentarily ashamed but I'm going to own it now!

I spoon mine into a teddy bear mould and then upend that onto the plate.

I'm looking for moulds in the shaps of a pretty flower, a combine harvester, and His Majesty The King, if anyone knows any good sources. Thanks.

PS Ice cream scoop is just basic bitch spud serving and I fully agree it should be stamped out.

That was my childhood too. Two of them side by side, you get weird mash/ice cream breasts on your plate.

I do this. I enjoy it and it's great when you are feeding many kids. They are so busy admiring the pretty shape they don't whinge that a sibling has more than them.
I'm now wondering what else I do which might be considered psychopathic!

They still do this in my work's canteen, though you'd have to be insane to eat the lumpy gloop mash.

I suppose they think they are getting a cheffy quenelle type shape 🤣

My mum used to do this when I was a kid.

Last experience of it was 15 years ago having DD in hospital, the mash was one of the few edible meal items (double scoop for me, please).

My mother did this when I was a kid! Forgot all about it!

Glacé cherry on top of each mound?

Also works on the ice cream tits.

If mash is scoopable and shapeable then it doesn't have enough butter and cream/milk in it.

90s school dinners! I assume it was used to squash the dry cement dust they called mash together

Ha- another who immediately thought of school dinners in the 80's

My mash potato is too soft to use a scoop. Unless the soup ladle I do use counts 🫣😂

I don't do it with potato but use an ice cream scoop for. making individual stuffing balls and for making sure I have the arm amount of batter in cup cake cases. Hope that is ok OP!!

I know this isn't AIBU, but YA very much NBU.