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.
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:
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.
Is it a car? A breed of cow? A 15th century poet? A sweet sausage meat pie made with a crispy crust? A Welsh slur for immigrants? A sex act that was popular during the Victorian era? I have no fucking idea…
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.
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.
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.
Definitely during a period of a lot of disease and cousin-fucking, so 1000-1500AD. You know, when religion was very popular and science was not
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.
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.
OK, but that leaves open everything the British might classify as “dessert”, which could be literally anything, including everything I listed previously
Having lived here for the better part of a decade…they keep trying to deport them. I always like to say that the US kept all the worst bits of being British.
Very British
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.
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:
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.
Is it a car? A breed of cow? A 15th century poet? A sweet sausage meat pie made with a crispy crust? A Welsh slur for immigrants? A sex act that was popular during the Victorian era? I have no fucking idea…
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.
Oh great, that only narrows it down to the last millennium or so, and the meat of nearly every beast, fish, and fowl.
So… Scotland?
Edit: I say! With these comments, I’m really being taken on a grand tour!
I can’t guarantee it isn’t any or all of those.
THAT’S WHAT’S SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING!
I’M PRETTY SURE IT’S ALL OF THESE! AND ALSO MORE THINGS!
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.
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.
Definitely during a period of a lot of disease and cousin-fucking, so 1000-1500AD. You know, when religion was very popular and science was not
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.
I don’t think blood pudding is generally considered to be a dessert.
One of the rare non-dessert breakfast puddings
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.
So… you’re angry about what a different culture considers dessert? Maybe don’t look into South Asian or East Asian desserts…
I don’t recall ever using the word “angry“ here…
And this isn’t about desserts; it’s about the British usage of the word “pudding”, as I clearly articulated. Try to keep up.
(oh, and if you’re gonna project your emotions onto me, don’t be so sloppy about it)
Edit: a thought occurs: there’s some nice grass outside. You should go and touch it. In the meantime: you’re blocked.
Edit: had to jump to an alt account just to pretend to read my mind? Who’s the “angry” one? Lol.
The only one I know is the Christmas cake they agreed was so terrible they simply set it on fire.
I’m relatively certain that was the plot of a Hercule Poirot Christmas story told by Agatha Christie
Yep:
Pudding is dessert.
So it’s what you posted, plus every other sweet treat you might have after your tea.
What’s a yorkshire pudding?
A bowl of ice cream eaten in Leeds.
Tea being a code word for dinner, which probably does not involve any tea.
Dinner, when lunch, is not tea, but may well include tea.
OK, but that leaves open everything the British might classify as “dessert”, which could be literally anything, including everything I listed previously
Do you mean other nations don’t chase their meal of boiled meat and root vegetables with a delicious bowl of quail custard?
Baffling.
Having lived here for the better part of a decade…they keep trying to deport them. I always like to say that the US kept all the worst bits of being British.