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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 ⁨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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      • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I think this was during one of their cultural takeover luls, before they discovered a bunch of new foods and bugs. Maybe before Australia, but maybe before the Americas. Who the fuck knows.

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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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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        You’ve never heard of Black Pudding? Which is a blood pudding served with a full English breakfast?

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      • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, I was able to determine that within a few minutes. The frustration comes from the wide range of bizarre dishes that the Britons define as “dessert“. It could be literally anything I have previously listed, and a wide ranging manner of things I didn’t.

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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 ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oy luv das alot of puddn innit

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      • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Too right!

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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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      • cruseo@piefed.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I did have an authentic haggis at a restaurant in New York when I lived there. From what I understood, it was quite well prepared. I wasn’t the biggest fan of it. Although I did enjoy the experience from the perspective of discovery and new experience.

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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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