I’ve never heard of buttering the bread in a bread pudding, though.
…which is then just an excuse to drench the whole concoction in whiskey sauce. Mmmm, yummy.
Yes, the Jolly boys did a video with their schoolboys eating biscuits and gravy. Not surprisingly, the boys thought it sounded and looked disgusting. But IIRC they all loved it.
O.k. this reminds me of something that catches my eye every time I see it. I watch plenty of TV shows/movies from the UK, and I almost never see anyone eating a piece of cake on a plate with a fork. They just pick up a piece of the cake in their hand and eat it that way. I was wondering if that’s why a lot of British cakes (cf. Victoria Sponge) have no frosting on the sides – too messy when you’re picking it up in your hands. Is this really common?
Also:
Brit → US
Bacon → Ham
Fat → Bacon
You are right, there are no plums involved. It’s a steamed pudding made with fruit, spices, and suet. It’s served hot with brandy butter, brandy sauce, or cream. Sometimes it is soaked in brandy and set alight.
It’s also possible to have “pudding pie” without a crust. We had DoorDash deliver for a BBQ place on Juneteenth; dessert was individual mud pies – chocolate pudding and whipped cream layered in a plastic take-out container, topped with Oreo cookie bits.
Corn pudding looks to be a relative of tomalito
Yeah, if you eat cake with a fork in England, you’re probably a bit posh.
If it’s a messy sort of cake - like, say Black Forest gateau, served as a dessert course, a spoon or spoon plus fork would be fairly normal though.
But even without the frosting your hands will get sticky. Ick.
Thanks for that!
Do you eat muffins with a fork?
I get a similar sort of feeling when I hear Americans talking about pie or pudding without any qualifiers or additional descriptors - it’s like "I’m eating sandwich’
Is that the same as Indian pudding?
Sometimes.
I thought Indian pudding was made with cooked down corn meal. The corn pudding other people have pictured above looks like it’s made with whole kernels of corn.
Is that about the lack of individual descriptors, or about the lack of articles? We wouldn’t say “I’m eating sandwich,” but we certainly might say “I’m eating a sandwich.”
Americans probably wouldn’t talk about “a pudding,” since to Americans, pudding is a substance and not a discrete object. (In this sense, it’s similar to “ice cream.” It’s possible but rare to talk about eating “an ice cream”; it would be far more common to say that we were eating ice cream.) We could say “I’m eating pie” or “I’m eating a pie,” but the latter would imply that we were eating a whole pie, whereas when we think of pie we most commonly think of the kind where you’d just eat one slice at a time.
Either, I suppose - I was just reaching for an example phrase that conveys how vague and empty it sounds (to me) when someone just talks about ‘pie’ or ‘pudding’ - pudding especially because the term is so broad here as to be meaningless without qualifiers (unless it is being used in the sense where it is a synonym for dessert)
I think it’s usually more akin to Angel Delight than custard.
Here (in South Africa) if someone says they’re “eating ice cream”, they would mean they’re eating a bowl of it. If they’re “eating an ice cream”, they’re having either a soft-serve cone or what I believe is called an ice cream bar in the US.
There is also figgy pudding, which we insist is brought to us, several times, each Christmas.
Exactly the same here in the ice cream capital of the US.
In the American tradition, “low beer” is just that, potato chips (maybe pretzels). “High beer” takes the place of the evening meal and involves pizzas and wings.