bogleech:

bogleech:

We’ve spent an hour discussing and reading about it and we still don’t know what exactly “pudding” means to British people

The explanations on this post all basically seem to amount to “nobody knows.” I mean I can wrap my head around it meaning “dessert,” or maybe “mushy things eaten with a spoon” but there seem to be exceptions of every combination.I mean, just so we’re clear, pudding has ONE definition in America:

It’s flavored, thickened milk. Period. It can come in any flavor but it’s all immediately recognizable, eaten with a spoon or as pie filling.

When both a cake and a damn SAUSAGE can be called “pudding,” it’s time to give up and admit everything in the UK is pudding. The sky is pudding. The people are pudding. They drive their puddings to work at the pudding where they earn 11 puddings a pudding. Sometimes it puddings pudding on pudding and the pudding puddings, but that’s okay, pudding doesn’t mind because pudding p͙͉u̘͓̭̻̖͍͍d̹̕d͕̠͉̩i͚̳͕ṇ̨̟͍̗̤̺g̡ p̱̞̙̰̪ù̷̢̱̺ḏ͍̗̭d̪̯̹̻͇̻͘͢i̳̪̗͍n̥͈̠͚̗͠g̪̞̫͖̲̰͕̹̀͢ͅ p̦̙̪͖͍̦̩̰̪̣̦̣̀͘͟ù̷͈̤̼̠͙͍͕̙̯̖̘̦͡d̷͠҉̣͓̺̮̰̺̣̹̠̯͔̀͡ͅd̢̨̞̮̙͍̤̗̲̩͚̼̝̯̕i̸̳͇̹̠̯͚̹̱̫͔̻̭͢͞ͅn̷͚̼̩͈͙͚͇͡ģ̷̫͎̗̹̘͕͎́́̕