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    Confusing the old country for centuries.
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    The donut one is my favourite. (ha!)
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    • #3
      I have to start using the phrase "violently American"
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      • #4
        Indeed. I do have to agree that it applies quite (in the US sense) accurately to that last picture. Still can't believe people eat those x.x
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        • #5
          Okay, UK... Explain to me what pudding is.
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          • #6
            I wanna see how they'd illustrate "Knock me up sometime."
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            • #7
              Quoth notalwaysright View Post
              Okay, UK... Explain to me what pudding is.
              Pudding as a classification is what Americans would call dessert.

              The meaning of the word has shifted over the centuries, though. The origin is the Latin word "botellus" (sausage, small intestine), which warped to the old French "boudin" (black pudding) which ended up as "black pudding" in middle English.

              https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/pudding

              Currently a "black pudding" is a sausage made out of oatmeal, onion, pork fat, pigs blood and spices. It tastes a lot nicer than it sounds.

              There are various old classic recipes (some of them dating back hundreds of years) using the description "pudding" which are, in fact, savoury, as they're wrapped in a suet pastry and boiled or steamed e.g. steak & kidney pudding:

              http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/st...eypuddin_93128

              Again, nicer than it sounds (although I leave out the kidneys).

              You can have sweet versions of suet puddings, but I'm not much of a sweet person outside of fruit so I can't think of any off the top of my head. Boiling or steaming food in a muslin cloth was pretty much a staple for centuries, though, so the word does get around.

              This wiki article isn't too bad:

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pudding
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              • #8
                Ha ha ha ha ha...

                When Peter Capaldi took over as "The Doctor", and called humans "pudding brains", I was picturing this:



                When I guess I should have been picturing something like this:

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                • #9
                  Quoth greek_jester View Post
                  Pudding as a classification is what Americans would call dessert.

                  There are various old classic recipes (some of them dating back hundreds of years) using the description "pudding" which are, in fact, savoury, as they're wrapped in a suet pastry and boiled or steamed e.g. steak & kidney pudding:

                  You can have sweet versions of suet puddings, but I'm not much of a sweet person outside of fruit so I can't think of any off the top of my head. Boiling or steaming food in a muslin cloth was pretty much a staple for centuries, though, so the word does get around.
                  So mostly pudding is just dessert. Except when it's not.

                  I've been watching the Great British Baking show, and there are many things I have to look up, which is fun! I can't nail down pudding though. Sweet, savory, baked, boiled, round, long, with a crust or not, filled with sauce or not, etc. Also, those boiled puddings? They don't exist here. I don't even have a concept of them, and I want to. Give me all the food.
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                  • #10
                    What about Yorkshire puddings eh
                    And plum puddings....which don't have any plums in


                    And do you also have pudding to refer to dessert or sweet....
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                    • #11
                      The term "Boudin" got dragged into American parlance intact, as well In the US, it most commonly refers to a Cajun-style rice-and-meat boudin blanc sausage. (they pronounce it 'BOO-da(n)'). Basically, dirty rice stuffed into a sausage casing.

                      Of course, all of this leaves the great question of the ages unanswered: "How CAN you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"
                      Last edited by EricKei; 05-02-2017, 07:33 PM.
                      "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
                      "The difference between an amateur and a master is that the master has failed way more times." - JoCat
                      "Thinking is difficult, therefore let the herd pronounce judgment!" ~ Carl Jung
                      "There's burning bridges, and then there's the lake just to fill it with gasoline." - Wiccy, reddit
                      "Retail is a cruel master, and could very well be the most educational time of many people's lives, in its own twisted way." - me
                      "Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home." - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds, "Serenity" (2005)
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                      • #12
                        Well, pudding in the US doesn't refer to any dessert but just one specific kind: what the French call blancmange--basically custard without the eggs. And it's always sweet.
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                        • #13
                          Heh. I always enjoy these kinds of things, even when the jokes are at the expense of my country.

                          That said, I do like to sometimes fire back when the opportunity presents itself. Like when I got into an argument with an online Canadian friend about healthy foods, and accused America of being the worst at it, I was able to retort, "This, coming from the country that invented poutine?"

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                          • #14
                            Quoth Kit-Ginevra View Post
                            What about Yorkshire puddings eh
                            And plum puddings....which don't have any plums in


                            And do you also have pudding to refer to dessert or sweet....
                            And don't forget butter pie. My buddy from England (where butter pie originates), thought it was some "s**t the Beatles made up".

                            I showed him it was a real thing...he was like, "Yeah, that's a region of England not near where I lived..."

                            He's also the guy who, when referring to "American English" says, "There's English, and there's wrong."
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                            • #15
                              Quoth EricKei View Post
                              The term "Boudin" got dragged into American parlance intact, as well In the US, it most commonly refers to a Cajun-style rice-and-meat boudin blanc sausage. (they pronounce it 'BOO-da(n)'). Basically, dirty rice stuffed into a sausage casing.

                              Of course, all of this leaves the great question of the ages unanswered: "How CAN you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?"
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