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.

No! Jam spoon, because (I hate to tell you this) not everyone wipes the knife..----

My DH does it and also serves boiled rice to one of our kids the same way so he has little scoops of rice with his curry.

My mum (who was born in 1947 and may in fact be exempt from the New Laws) did this, all through the late 80s and early 90s. I had also forgotten about it. I'm going to try it next time I give mash to my offspring, see how they react 😁

She also enforced a jam spoon. To be fair, now I'm an adult and buy my own jam I'm quite keen on it not going mouldy so I get a bit sniffy about buttery knives in the jar too.

I seem to remember mum occasionally doing this. Never minded it but prefer a great splodge of mash myself!

I've only ever seen this for school dinners (child of the 60's). Personally I hand craft my mashed potato into the shape of a swan.

Only remember awful lumpy mash being served this way back at school in the 80s.
I splat it on with a spoon. I bet my kids would love it if it was all neat. I have fussy, one food can't touch another food DCs. I don't even own one of these scoops for ice cream. Maybe I should?

WooleyMunky · Yesterday 20:07

Her what???

I thought it must be a typo, until I read a later poster's explanation!

I feel faint at the thought of anyone coming at my jam with a buttery knife

My mother not only used the ice cream scoop for mashed potatoes, she also used it for mashed turnip. 1960s/70s. The mince was plopped though, in her defence.