Comment on PSA: This Futurama episode will be banned in the UK starting today

• cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Very British

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  • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I sometimes feel like the British authorities would ban sex altogether if they could find people some other way that would be willing to eat kidney pie.

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    • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      When it comes to British culture, the thing I’m most hung up on is their definition of “pudding“. As an American, this is what “pudding“ means to me:

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      But when the British use the word “pudding“ I have absolutely no goddamn idea what they mean. I have been trying to figure it out for decades, immersing myself in British culture, and I am no closer to figuring it out than I was when I started.

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      • jobbies@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Its used as another word for ‘dessert’. Its not that fucking confusing.

        Then again with Americans believing Jesus walked with dinosaurs and that Trump would give them cheaper eggs I’m not shocked you can’t comprehend cultural differences.

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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        As another 'Murican, the way I understand it is that if it’s boiled or steamed inside of an animal intestine or stomach, that’s a pudding. And even if it’s fried later, it’s still a pudding. See: Black Pudding, a British blood pudding.

        And if it’s only steamed, often wrapped in a cloth, it’s probably a desert.

        In any case, if some British person offers you a “pudding” don’t ask questions you really don’t want the answer to. Just shut up and eat it. They ARE British after all. And if you really don’t want to risk it, ask if you can go to a curry shop instead. Blessed be the Indians who taught the Brits to cook at least one edible dish.

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      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I can’t guarantee it isn’t any or all of those.

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      • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That’s a chocolate mousse.

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      • mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Always room for a little pud

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      • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It means desert.

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      • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The only one I know is the Christmas cake they agreed was so terrible they simply set it on fire.

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      • bedwyr@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think their pudding was introduced in food rationing during some war or another. To let the meat and such go farther, they made pudding from things like leftover bread and whatever.

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      • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Pudding is dessert.

        So it’s what you posted, plus every other sweet treat you might have after your tea.

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    • Sturgist@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Having lived here for the better part of a decade….they keep trying to report them. I always like to say that the US kept all the worst bits of being British.

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well, it’s their business to know what you like doing in the privacy of a bedroom. Knowing is nothing at like not knowing. The impacts on society are totally different.

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