What utensil do you eat mashed potatoes with?

[King Kamala]

This was subject of "Ask John Hodgman" in New York Times and made me curious. Askee was incredulous that her husband ate mashed potatoes with a spoon and while I think a fork is preferred, I don't think eating them with a spoon is that weird. I've always eaten with a fork but I eat potato salad occasionally with a spoon and that's really not that far off from mashed taters. I can see the appeal.

 

[BruiserBrody]

I often make the instant taters and those are almost spoon by need. Smashed baby reds are forked.

 

[tekcop]

Good mashed potatoes should be stiff enough to eat with a fork comfortably. Still, a spoon might always be objectively the best instrument to use. I always use a fork because I'm an adult and having a separate "mashed potato" spoon is a few steps too far for me.

 

[BUTT]

I believe I ate them with a spoon after I had my wisdom teeth removed. But its very rare that I eat mashed potatoes on their own. They’re usually a side dish for meat loaf or chicken or whatever and in that case I use the same fork I use for the main course.

 

[Baby Shoes]

With the exception of the wisdom teeth part, I‘m in the same boat as Mr. BUTT.

I can imagine people using a spoon but honestly I use a fork for nearly anything I can think of that uses a utensil outside of soup, cereal, ice cream or pudding.

 

[Epic Springs]

Fork but I rarely have mashed potatoes. More of a waffle fries/tater tots man.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

only a very small child or a very old person should be using a spoon.

 

[SFH]

Generally only get mashed potatoes as a side to a good roast or hamburger steak, so I'm forking it.

Oddly enough, we were talking food stuff at work yesterday and a coworker is a mashed potatoes fan, her favorite food. She said it wasn't until she got an adult job did she realize her family was the only family that had mashed potatoes as a side dish to hamburgers on bun. I don't think there's anything wrong with it, but it's not something I had ever heard of either and was trying to figure ways to poll similar aged people without starting a thread about ''what do you eat with your burgers because my coworker makes mashed potatoes?"

 

[HarleyQuinn]

Fork all the way

 

[Hawk 34]

Why you gotta make eating mashed potatoes sound so vulgar?