Overview

• The Karlsruhe-born fad has moved beyond Germany, with London’s Leicester Square hosting a meetup after a TikTok call-out by staff at marketing agency Lasting Lemons.
• Washington, D.C., held a Logan Circle gathering organized via Reddit by musician Nataly Merezhuk, Northeastern University students staged a small lawn meetup, and New York’s Central Park event is planned for Oct. 19.
• Germany’s wave continues at multiple scales, from an upcoming Oct. 11 event in Potsdam promoted by the pudding.potsdam TikTok account to a roughly 20-person meetup in Diepholz led by the Evangelische Jugend Diepholz board.
• Late September crowds in Hanover exceeded 1,000, while Berlin’s first iteration featured the now-standard choreography of a punctual countdown, foil-lid peel, and fork-only eating.
• Organizing remains decentralized and noncommercial, with posts on TikTok or Instagram setting time and place for BYOP/BYOF gatherings that many participants say feel like an easy third space.