… and to follow madam?
on Oct 10 in General by Dan“Daddy can I have some pudding?” Amy asks shoveling the last forkful of macaroni cheese into her mouth.
It’s a rare occasion indeed when Amy actually clears her plate, so I don’t see a problem with a little treat. “Ok sweetheart” I tell her “There’s a chocolate mousse in the fridge if you want it”.
“I don’t want chocolate mousse. I want bread”.
“You want bread for pudding?”
“Yes.”
[pause]
“You’re weird”
(and before you start, I know that pudding means something very specific in American english, but over here it’s the generic word for dessert. We actually invented the language you know.)
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Oh, I love bread for pudding (dessert)! My daughters call me weird, though, too, but who cares! A treat is very subjective and should not be judged by others imposing their own ideas of dessert.
Huh. According to Brits, I could have pudding for pudding. How very odd indeed.
So what do you call pudding? And what about pudding pops?
You did invent the language, but that was probably before the invention of Kit Kat.
My oldest loves bread. Cold, dry bread. He’ll eat it all day if I let him, for dinner or pudding.
You crazy Brits! Actually, Little Boy has a pudding every evening for a snack. If you can call it pudding…it’s those yucky snack-pack thingys that would last through nuclear annhialation. So is anybody TRULY having pudding?
And there’s my English lesson for the day.
My wife thinks I am weird because I snack on bread all by itself and DO eat it for dessert sometimes…or pudding as it were :0
Bradley
The Egel Nest
England…English. Wait a second…Holy crap it all adds up now.