As TikTok trends go, it’s tasty and inconvenient.
Earlier this summer, Germans began gathering in groups to eat pudding with forks – an activity known in German as Pudding mit Gabel.
Video of the first event spread online, other German cities started hosting Pudding mit Gabel, and you knew it was a matter of time before some enterprising Yellowknifers hopped on the bandwagon.
The only issue: the Germans were doing it in mid-August in bright sunshine that brought out hundreds of people to the park for pudding.
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About 10 to 12 Yellowknifers, by contrast, gathered on a gloomy mid-October lunch break.
“Why? I don’t have an answer as to why,” said Rylund Johnson, the former Yellowknife North MLA, who had organized last Friday’s event in the city’s Somba K’e Park. He brought spare puddings and forks for the ill-prepared.
Two people brought homemade pudding, which appeared to boost their chances of reaching it all with a fork as it had a thicker consistency than the storebought varieties.
Johnson said he had seen the TikToks of Pudding mit Gabel in Germany and “I thought we had to bring it to Yellowknife. As far as I’m aware, it hasn’t really crossed the ocean, but we’re starting it.”
“I just heard that people were eating pudding with forks and I thought that sounded cool,” said one of the seven forkbearers in attendance at the start. (A few stragglers joined later.) “I was like, sweet. How can I say no to that?”
Asked if they had eaten pudding with a fork before, they said: “Probably, when I was out of spoons.”
