Pudding with a fork? What the Gen Z trend is all about

Why on Earth Would You Eat Pudding with a Fork?

Hand on heart: Who didn't learn as a child that pudding is something you eat with a spoon? Apparently, Generation Z (those born between 1995 and 2010) has unceremoniously tossed that rule out the window. Recently, over 1,000 people met in Hanover to do exactly that: Collectively, in a public square, they set about trying to eat the creamy dessert with a fork. Sounds weird? It is, but that's precisely the point!

More Than Just a Meme

What started as a bizarre idea in Karlsruhe has now become a nationwide trend that has taken social media by storm. Behind the Hanover meeting was the Instagram page Hannover_memes, whose posts about the pudding parties went viral. This absurd communal experience is more than just a meme. It's a real outlet in our often far too serious times, as a 23-year-old organizer explained. Generation Z uses this simplest form of chaos to forget the "total problems" for a day and just have a good laugh.

Pudding Connects People

You might think it’s about a new, complicated way of eating. But really, it’s about something much more simple: Connection. Everyone had to bring their own pudding and their own fork. A simple thing that suddenly gets hundreds of thousands of clicks and brings people together from Berlin to Munich. The video caption from the original meeting in Karlsruhe sums it up perfectly: "What we take away from this: Pudding connects people." It's proof that for a great event, you don't need complicated rules, just an absurd idea and a shared bowl of wobbly joy! And perhaps a fork, just to make it unnecessarily difficult.