Good grief, Delia puts bananas in her Traditional English Trifle.

[ScribblyGum]

That can’t be right can it? I’ve never had a banana in my trifle and have no intention of starting.

Think I will just stick with sponges, sherry, raspberries (+ rasp jam), custard, cream, silver dragees.

To jelly or not to jelly?

Minced beef sautéed with onions

Ah Mogg, you beat me to it

@MoggEatMoggWorld you forgot the peas

It's peas too btw.
Beef sauteed with peas and onions.

Of course how could I forget the peas, no trifle is complete without them

Bananas in trifle are the best bet. You.are.wrong

I was like you, horrified at the idea of banana in a trad trifle

Then my friend made one and brought it round

Oh.My.

You must try. Divine.

@wowfudge my Gran's 'poor man trifle' was just Swiss roll and custard

I’m going to go against the grain here....dons hard hat:

I can’t stand the wibbly wobbly texture of cold custard, so my mum makes me my own special trifle sans the custard I get sherry soaked sponge, raspberries, raspberry jelly, a fuck ton of that instant whip stuff.

(I’m waiting on mum to ring me back and tell me the proper name of the instant whip stuff!)

I actually make a controversial trifle for Xmas. Originally Black Forest, it's been adapted for my cherry hating brother:

Raspberries, chocolate sponge and raspberry liqueur, then milk chocolate custard, dark chocolate custard and mascarpone whipped cream

Bananas??

No.

But yes to jelly. Usually.

I really want trifle now.

I can’t see it, how the addition of a banana to all the rest of it is an improvement. It’s such a strong flavour and bananas don’t go with raspberries. They also look ugly.

fouryears I’ve made that black forest trifle before too. It’s lovely. I put chocolate brownie on the bottom.

No custard?! Well that’s a massive Family Fortunes X noise right there.

When my friend makes it the bananas are sliced inside not on top so they don’t look ugly

They don’t overpower but add a weirdly comforting texture to it. They make it even more filling and delicious. I’m not especially a banana fan, but bloody love her trifle!

That’s right Scribbly : no custard.

It’s yellow.
It’s wobbly.
It reminds me of congealed vomit.

Nope.
Not in my mouth thanks

Delia’s are sliced up inside but you can still see them through the lovely trifle bowl.

Well I can see I’m going to have to try it with bananas in now BUT not for Boxing Day. I’ll have to do a personal private trifle at some later date and see if it is acceptable unto my mouth.

Out of berry season my trifle only has bananas plus trifle sponges made into strawberry jam sandwiches in the strawberry jelly. Proper homemade vanilla custard and then whipped cream and hundreds and thousands.

I hate berries out of season.

But the cold wobbly custard is the element that brings and binds the whole thing together!

Nope.
The cold, wobbly custard can suck a dick 🤢
The thought of it makes my teeth itch

Homemade custard is not wobbly, it is delightful, milk, cream, eggs, cornflour, vanilla pods and sugar - divine (expensive and very unhealthy).

Maybe someone needs to have a word with my mum and convince her to bin off the instant custard

I wouldn't eat instant custard either My. Bright yellow, wobbly and artificial. 🤮

Bananas are the food of the devil and they definitely don't belong in trifle. I will have to overlook this one weakness of Delia's though as I love her!

The PP's black forest trifle sounds lovely. My friend makes an amazing trifle with ginger sponge and pears, booze, custard and cream - no jelly AFAIK. James Martin has a similar one on his website, but it involves so much bloody faffing - such as making your own parkin, making custard from scratch etc when surely a McVities ginger cake/bought custard would do?? I might make it this year with all the shop-bought shortcuts, of course

My mum makes delicious trifle although I think some of you trifle aficionados might have kittens if you saw it! It's sliced jam Swiss roll, sprinkled with sherry, then a tin of fruit cocktail, then red jelly, then custard made with birds custard powder, then whipped cream and topped with a crumbled chocolate flake.
I once made one of nigellas trifles, with homemade sponges and proper custard made with eggs and cream and the consensus was "it's nice but not as good as mums", so I haven't bothered again!

I can't bear trifle. It's pretty much my food hell. So many horrible things:

Wet sponge - yuck
Jelly with bits of sponge in it so it's got a weird grainy texture - yuck
Cold custard - yuck
The whole soft, slushy slimy overall texture - yuck.

I know the rest of the world adores trifle, but I can't for the life of me understand why.