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.

This happening at school is one of the many reasons I won't eat mashed potatoes.

If someone's making you dinner, you don't get to complain about the shape of the mash.

If someone's making their own dinner and you're not there, surely this is a non-issue because you wouldn't know about it.

If someone's making their own dinner and you are watching them eat, their choice of serving implement is really not the thing that jumps out at me as a red flag.

Mom used to do this wen I was younger? I thought it was exotic😄

At school, surely this was for portion control

Are you seriously confessing to not using a piping bag to present mash???

We thought we were quite the sophisticated household, maybe even verging on middle class, when my mum came home with a mashed potato scoop. Ice cream for home consumption didn't need to be scooped. It came in individual portions, cuboid shaped, and wrapped in waxed paper.

Then we got a deep freezer and discovered proper posh ways of presenting mashed potato. Potato croquettes and duchesse potatoes.

mum used to do this a blue plastic handled or wooden handled one with that springy metal hoop inside it. still hear her scraping the mash out of the saucepan last little bit with the scoop eeekkkkkkkk!

I forgot all about people doing this. They used to use the ice-cream scoop for mashed potatoes at my school.

I am not averse to making a face with the mash and adding extra scoops for ears.

When I was a student in Scotland my hall of residence used to do Haggis, neeps, and tatties all served with ice cream scoops. (Two, one and two scoops respectively).
The plate looked like some bizarre sci-fi lunar settlement 🤣

OP, I feel similar about the rare person I come across who insists on filling a spoon with ketchup from the bottle rather than straight on the food (especially when done over the plate - if loads comes out unexpectedly the spoon isn’t going to save it all!) and use spoons to get jam out of jars for toast. Just wipe the knife!

Ooh, the springy metal hoop they used at school! The creaky sound and slightly metallic taste of the potato, happy memories (not!)

I use a scoop for muffin mixture too,works perfectly.

Ooh my Nan used to do this. She made less buttery mash than me. I don't think mine would behave being scooped, but hers did! Loved it. May have to go round there for dinner to see if she still does!

MIL did this, SIL and I got one half ball of mashed potato and one tiny roast on a Sunday. I'm a size 4/6. Her penis portions were enormous but strangely included herself in that number, definite narc.

I’m fairly certain mine did too.

I do it, I love doing it, I will never stop doing it. I love the ease of portion sizing, I love the appearance of it on the plate, it is not going anywhere anytime soon 😅

What ???
Doesn't everyone just slap it on the plate like an angry dinner lady ???

It's a good way to measure your portion if you are a calorie control diet, though I hide my shame by smearing it a bit so it looks less boobish on my plate 😁

I'd be reminded of primary school

My DM

Hospital mash still comes in scoops. I don't know if school dinners do. It's portion control

I admire your audacity. But I still must insist you stop.

Thank you.

I give a reprieve to anyone born before 1947

an admirable use of the ice-cream scoop. she's obv a baker who knows what the heck is goin on