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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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨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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    • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This doesn’t really answer any questions, but at least I’ll end up at a nice curry shop.

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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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    • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      THAT’S WHAT’S SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING!

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      • GreyEyedGhost@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        They must have run out of words and got tired of borrowing them from other languages. Those who were still willing were all shipped to Australia? Sounds like a criminal act as far as the British are concerned.

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      • Sturgist@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Pudding is just dessert. Sometimes it’s a pudding you’d recognise as a pudding, sometimes it’s a bit of ice cream, other times it’s something ridiculous. It’s always dessert.

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s a chocolate mousse.

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    • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      A chocolate mousse is whipped and much lighter and fluffier

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  • mad_lentil@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Always room for a little pud

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  • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It means desert.

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    • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It means desert.

      Thanks for clearing that up

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      • dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oy luv das alot of puddn innit

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      • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yup, accurate.

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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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    • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m relatively certain that was a Hercule Poirot Christmas story told by Agatha Christie

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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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    • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The word pudding was around long before there was a Britain. It was much simpler back then. A pudding was anything you stuffed into an animal intestine or stomach and boiled the Hell out of it, (See: Holy Water).

      At some point, when ingredients like eggs, sugar, and flour became common, the Brits kind of went off the rails and completely lost the whole thread as to just what is a pudding.

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    • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh great, that only narrows it down to the last millennium or so

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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yep the Scots have their famous Haggis boiled in a sheep’s stomach. It is impossible to make a real Haggis in the US, it’s not legal to sell such things as a sheep’s stomach because of food safety.

        So, unless you make your own sheep’s stomach from scratch, we are stuck with canned Haggis in the US. Which is OK, but not the best. And to be honest, the Scots also have moved on to canned haggis since it a very time consuming dish to make.

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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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    • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      OK, but that was open everything the British might classify as “dessert”, which could be literally anything, including everything I listed previously

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      • djdarren@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Do you mean other nations don’t chase their meal of boiled meat and root vegetables with a delicious bowl of quail custard?

        Baffling.

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    • iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Tea being a code word for dinner, which probably does not involve any tea.

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      • KeithD@lemmy.nz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Dinner, when lunch, is not tea, but may well include 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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