Unpacking why 'pudding' means both dessert and sausage

[anothernewbbaccount]

@Amstrad

I don’t think suet pastry is commonly done in any fashion over here.

Like I said:

@anothernewbbaccount

That would be a tragedy.

[Brainspore]

Which kind of pudding was it that Fred Astaire sang about eating on a salted cracker?

[OhHai]

Probably banana. There’s no right way to eat banana pudding.

[KathyPartdeux]

Jello is not pudding!

[beauwillamson]

I’ve seen both of those here in Canada - and both get called ‘pie’, both in restaurants and scratch made by my Grandmother.

[zfirphdn]

@KathyPartdeux

Jello is not pudding!

To be fair, I do think the guy in the video was actually trying to make that distinction. (i.e., I think he was trying to explain that the Jell-O brand pudding cup that he was holding up was not the same thing as a gelatine dessert even though it said “Jell-O” on the label of the cup.)

[smulder]

@anothernewbbaccount

You USians don’t have steak and kidney pudding?

One thing America did not hold onto was British cuisine

[smulder]

@OhHai

There’s no right way to eat banana pudding

… maybe we can just look at it

[Brainspore]

@smulder

One thing America did not hold onto was British cuisine

We tried but just couldn’t keep it down.

[hecep]

Damn. Got there before me!

[hecep]

Visions of a half-frozen Luke Skywalker being shoved into that.

[Immutable_Mike]

I had the advantage of being dressed for the occasion.

[hecep]

I still have my Sailing the Seas of Cheese tee… but it would be redundent these days to wear it out in the open… or at all.

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

@smulder

One thing America did not hold onto was British cuisine

My family comes from the south, where they held onto a lot of British dishes - Yorkshire pudding, trifle, porridge, chutney*, Horehound candy confections, etc. I am glad they rejected beans on toast, though.

*colonizers gonna colonize…and spread the spoils far and wide