Settle an absurdly heated family dispute for me!

[sadpapercourtesan]

My 19yo son insists that trifle should be eaten with a fork

He's sitting here right now, eating a big bowl of sloppy trifle with a fucking FORK. He rolled his eyes and said "I knew you guys would be weird about this".

It's him, right? He's the weird one. Not the rest of us, who are using spoons.

@GrumpyPanda

Chopsticks!

It's best with just one.

Trifle shouldn’t be sloppy!

@limitedperiodonly

It's that thing you do with mistakes when you're a teenager. You turn left when you should turn right but instead of heading back you walk miles out of your way because you think everyone is looking at you.

Oh that is so very true. Made me chuckle

I imagine it lasts longer with a fork, rather than wolfing it down with a spoon.
Reminds me of when I was a kid, taking tiny mouthfuls of cake to make it last longer.

At my father's wake they served Eton mess. The woman who ran the hotel was absolutely bonkers and her staff were terrified of her. She wouldn't let us have cutlery and the staff were really not keen to ask her. I had eaten a slice of honeydew melon and still had the skin so I used it to scoop up and eat the Eton mess.It worked quite well considering. Would have been easier with a fork but very best with an actual spoon.

At a kids party back in the dark ages we had a jelly & ice cream eating competition with a knife and a fork as a party game.
Trifle with a fork is ok by me.

YABU. Leave the poor guy alone- who cares what cutlery he's using?

I agree with him, having an 'absurdly heated family dispute' about it is thoroughly weird.

Tell him to keep his fork and tomorrow at noon challenge him to a bowl of soup.

Jelly on a fork, jelly on a fork, wibble wobble, wibble wobble, jelly on a fork!

Jelly off a fork, jelly off a fork...

Jelly on my foot.

I've just scoffed some trifle - with a spoon, of course. Your son is strange

@sadpapercourtesan

I'm afraid there are sponge fingers in the jelly I wanted DH to use leftover Victoria Sponge, but he insisted on using the sponge fingers.

DS1 also puts salt on ice cream, btw. He's a wrong-un, isn't he?

Does what? Doesn’t that just melt it?

@ThirdElephant there's always one

It's a joke. No fragile 19yo egos were harmed in the making of this thread.

He's forkin' wrong, trifle is eaten with a spoon!

Dirty bastard

Spoon, but really trifle is gross so I'm not going anywhere near it!

SPOON!

Jelly on the carpet, oops!

Why do you care?

Could suck it through a straw for all I care. Would just be glad to have him.

There is no correct answer, where trifle is concerned.

@ThirdElephant

YABU. Leave the poor guy alone- who cares what cutlery he's using?

I agree with him, having an 'absurdly heated family dispute' about it is thoroughly weird.

LOL, you're serious aren't ya?

Chill.

Um, we (not me, I hate it!) Used forks too. Shocked the rating isn't 50/50

@MrsSkylerWhite

Why do you care?

Could suck it through a straw for all I care. Would just be glad to have him.

There is no correct answer, where trifle is concerned.

Another one taking it a bit too seriously. CHILL

@MrsSkylerWhite

Why do you care?

Could suck it through a straw for all I care. Would just be glad to have him.

There is no correct answer, where trifle is concerned.

What do you mean 'you'd be glad to have him?'

What cement like trifles is everyone eating - how can you eat whipped cream or syllabic and custard with a fork?

Syllabub. It’s a word autocorrect look it up

I also need trifle now