"If you want to do a dump dinner properly, then the first thing you need to do is cover your entire dining table in tinfoil. I don't like where this is going. And then you tip whatever you've been cooking all over it. No plates. No serving dishes. Just the fat wet slop of food on table. This cannot possibly be a thing. And yet it is."
"TikTok is is now saturated with dump dinners, with parents posting videos of themselves hurling mountains of spaghetti and sauce straight on to their table so their kids can sort of dive into it with their hands. Oh, so this is something that the kids have specifically requested? Nope. In almost all the videos, the children react with noticeable alarm, with some even screaming: What the hell are you doing?"
Dump dinners describe a social-media practice of tipping cooked food onto a foil-covered dining table so people eat directly with their hands. The practice is often performed by parents on TikTok and staged for likes, sometimes framed as a tradition like "Fun Fridays." Children in many videos react with alarm or scream when food is dumped, and most clips show the kids did not request the treatment. The practice is not limited to children; videos include elderly family members reacting angrily. The modern meaning contrasts with the original idea of a make-ahead slow-cooker recipe called a dump dinner.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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