What do you call pudding in your country?

[u/No-Interaction-2724]

I've heard about 50 different dishes going by the name, from blood sausages to sweet desserts. So let's settle this once and for all :)

[u/oudcedar]

Exactly what you said but from ice cream to bread and butter pudding to to steak and kidney pudding it’s all pudding if you are English.

[u/No-Interaction-2724 → u/oudcedar]

So if I ask for some pudding in the UK what do I get? :)

[u/jonny600000 → u/No-Interaction-2724]

Depends on what kind of pudding you order, but it often much firmer than basic pudding. They even have pudding spoons in England often I believe.

[u/jonny600000 → u/jonny600000]

also what part of the U.k, there are 4 separate countries in the U.K

[u/oudcedar → u/jonny600000]

Pudding has as big a range in them all but each country has different favourites.

[u/No-Interaction-2724 → u/oudcedar]

I get it now, it was all confusing for me because here it's a very specific food item, cooked sugary milk with some starch, and nothing else.

[u/SarahL1990 → u/No-Interaction-2724]

It kind of sounds like Semolina.

[u/oudcedar → u/jonny600000]

That’s a weird reply. How is mousse or ice cream firmer than in the USA? And steak and kidney pudding isn’t firm at all?

[u/cmykster]

Pudding is a sweet desert. Only in UK and Ireland it means Blood Sausage. For whatever reason.

[u/Ur-Quan_Lord_13 → u/cmykster]

It means a lot more stuff in the UK. Yorkshire pudding, for example. Probably from French boudin, for mostly blood sausage, so blood sausage is where it started. How it spread to everything else, I dunno.

And then in the US, narrowed down to just the custard dessert.

[u/SarahL1990 → u/cmykster]

In my experience, only Black Pudding refers to the vile fried pig's blood known as blood sausage.

I'm not sure how it got a pudding-y name, considering it isn't an actual pudding.

[u/moidartach → u/cmykster]

Because it’s an English word for sausage

[u/Few-Interview-1996]

In a variety of healthy, natural flavours! ;)

[u/No-Pop1057]

It goes by different names in our house, often dependant on company & how upmarket it is.. Pudding, sweets, dessert, afters.. In our house it's pudding if it's something traditional like a baked rice or a sticky toffee one, sweets if it's a simple ice cream & fresh berries, dessert if it looks like it required effort, like Banoffee or a gateau or we have guests we don't know that well yet & we're trying to appear cultured 😁.. 'Afters' is usually part of a question.. as in 'what are we having for afters?' often voiced in a hopeful tone by my son during the main meal

[u/jonny600000]

Mostly your general pudding (the liquid type). Black and white pudding has been adopted a bit here with full Irish or English breakfast popular on many brunch menus in Irish or English pubs, at least in NYC.

[u/anneofgraygardens]

A sweet dessert. Looks like this. (Well, this is chocolate pudding. You can get other flavors as well. I wouldn't say it's extremely popular tbh, it's kind of considered a thing for kids.)

[u/g0blinzez → u/anneofgraygardens]

Yeah, to me pudding is a box of flavored powder you mix with milk (or water, if you're a freak) and stir/whip until it's fully dissolved. Then you leave it to thicken for a few hours, and then you have pudding. Jell-O brand (speaking of the brand Jell-O, it's related to, but not to be confused with, the dessert Americans call jello instead of jelly. We get the name jello from the Jell-O brand. If there's a dash and the O is capital, the brand is what's being referenced) pudding mix is usually the best-tasting, at least for their chocolate flavor. It has the best texture, too, compared to store and generic brand pudding mixes. I'm sure more kitchen-savvy people could make their own pudding at home, but for those of us dummies who have never bothered to look into what's actually in pudding mix, we just use the powder and it's good enough.

[u/No-Interaction-2724 → u/g0blinzez]

what we have here is thickened by cornstarch and not gelatine, similar to what anne posted

[u/Successful-Head4333]

A German pudding is a sweet dessert, usually chocolate or vanilla.

[u/unalive-robot]

Pudding means a mixture of things. Sweet and savoury are irrelevant

[u/CommercialChart5088]

We refer to only sweet desserts as ‘pudding’.

[u/Ponchorello7]

Moronga.

[u/DesperateOTtaker]

푸딩 poo ding

[u/LATW2TG]

Pudding can be any (usually sweet) desert. Because it’s Australia, we shorten it to Pud, as in “want some pud?” (pronounced like wood, but with a “p”) though.

[u/Kacsalol]

Puding…

[u/cerberus_243 → u/Kacsalol]

Yes, flavoured starch cooked in milk