Are you a licker or a splitter?

Say wine, snacks or haute cuisine and the gourmands of online food magazine FavorFlav know where to drink, how to eat it and what to cook. This time our chefs serve you the right way to eat a tompouce.

A delicious, crispy HEMA tompouce with such a shiny pink layer of glaze and a creamy pastry filling... You could wake us up for it. But what happens next is a big mystery. Because although I neatly split my tompouce (yes, I am a splitter), some colleagues are of the type tompouce rapist. What turns out? There are different ways to eat your tompouce. These are the most well-known.

The pricker
For this technique, you need to take your time. Place your fork straight on the top glaze layer and go through all the layers until you reach the bottom. If you do this slowly, you will have all the layers of the tompouce on your fork in one bite. If you do it quickly, there is a good chance that the next bite will become a mushy mess. For colleagues in financial administration or other types with angelic patience.

The tilting method
Really something for IT people. They lay their tompouce on its side so that the layers sit more easily on top of each other, and then with their fork can grab all layers with each bite. This has been thought through, people.

The licker
Personally, I think this is only permissible if you are under ten. But you should see them in action. Every company has a few lickers on staff. They pick up the tompouce with their hands and then start greedily licking the cream, after which they eat the top and bottom as a grand finale. Often accompanied by smacking and other unwanted culinary intimacies.

The splitter
Do as I do: take the top off the tompouce and distribute the filling over the bottom and top layer. This way you have that delicious pastry filling on both the bottom and the top. I mean: is there another way?

The builder
They stick the top layer with the pastry filling onto the inverted bottom layer, so they can take a big bite without the filling falling out. Really a manly thing if you ask me.

The rapist
Colleague D. No words for it.

Text: FavorFlav