Thread: America just discovered the Yorkshire Pudding and Brits are furious about it....

Originally Posted by Rusty Rebar

Well now you guys seem quite protective of that lump of pastry, claiming some sort of trademark. People have been eating variants of this for thousands of years, they mostly called it bread. But that pizza you mentioned is more like a pie than your pastry is like a pudding. In fact most of the world considers a pudding to be a sweet thick sauce, that can be made in various flavors and generally considered a dessert item.

The clue is in the name. It’s from Yorkshire. Even The U S English spell checker capitalises it.
Just like the Brits, it is flexible and can be sweet or savoury.
If you bothered reading the thread before replying you would know this.
A pie can also be sweet or savoury and it has a lid. That’s my definition. Wait and see how many agree with it before you decide.
Pizza does not qualify as a pie. No lid no pie. Everything else is a flan. Good old fashioned English word that.

Originally Posted by Switch

No lid no pie.

Not a pie?

pumpkin pie



macadamia nut cream pie (the north shore of Oahu has a bakery that has cream pies to die for)

They're pumpkin flan and macadamia nut cream flan, respectively.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

They're pumpkin flan and macadamia nut cream flan, respectively.

correct. Even our erstwhile and much loved cousins from the commonwealth have been badly infected by this cheeky merkin language manipulation.
No lid no pie. Both of HNZs pictures are flans.

Originally Posted by Airportwo

^ Heathen there
I was born and bred in Yorkshire.
No, Yorkshire pudding should not/never have a filling, this would defeat the purpose of it. It is/was served either before or in later days with the main meal, the purpose of the mighty Yorkshire pudding was to be filling, while being very cheap, the more Yorkshire pudding folks ate, the less meat they would have room for, the gravy that would be served in/with the Yorkshire pudding was made from the juices of the meat and vegetables and was in itself a "treat"

oh my god,,,, oh for one of mums roast dinners.... the gravy,,,, just as u discribe uummmm

Originally Posted by Rusty Rebar

The British really need to sort out the definition of the term pudding.

Well in a way they have.

Pudding is the last course of a meal. Only chavs or others call it dessert.

OR

Pudding is a dish boiled or steamed while in something. Like a dish or a piece of cloth or even in animal instetine.

^Cooking? who does that anymore. I thought food was app ordered and drone or motorbike delivered!

Originally Posted by Rusty Rebar

Well now you guys seem quite protective of that lump of pastry, claiming some sort of trademark. People have been eating variants of this for thousands of years, they mostly called it bread. But that pizza you mentioned is more like a pie than your pastry is like a pudding. In fact most of the world considers a pudding to be a sweet thick sauce, that can be made in various flavors and generally considered a dessert item.

True.

America just discovered the Yorkshire Pudding and Brits are furious about it.

Fake news chaps.

1. The Brits are not furious about a so-called recent American "discovery" of the Yorkshire Pudding.
2. Americans have something similar that they call the "popover" and they've had that for over 150 years. Apparently.

^Wtf are you crapping on about? Reads like someone put LSD in your Yorkshire puddings.

Originally Posted by kmart

^Wtf are you crapping on about? Reads like someone put LSD in your Yorkshire puddings.

Ditto! Now, mind your own "Spanky" business, for a change.

Forget about that ^, ok? Cheers!

True story ~ I've tasted a better version of Yorkshire "pudding" made in Germany (yes, indeed), than any of what I'd ever tasted, anywhere in the UK.

^ Are your meds wearing off again?

@VocalNeil What course has the tiramisu?

Originally Posted by Rusty Rebar

@VocalNeil What course has the tiramisu?

If it is served last after a full meal , then the answer is Pudding. Did I explain it incorrectly the first time?

Next you'll be saying that Entree which means to enter in French is the main course?

On the first day in the cafe
I was looking at all the food
There was veg and birds and spuds and things
There was sauce and onion rings

The first thing I ordered was a chicken curry
And some rice with a keema naan bread
The sauce was hot and the rice was fine
But the bread was stale and dry.

Now I wish I'd eaten just a dessert with no main
And I'm regretting that I ever came.
With a good dessert you'll forget about the main
'Cause there ain't no meat for to give you no pain
La, la, la, la, la, al, la

Originally Posted by VocalNeal

If it is served last after a full mea

I would suggest the pudding is served prior to the cheese course and hence is not the last course.

Possible coffee and wafer thin mints, After Eights I believe they were called, as well. They were at firm favourites at our local Indian/Persian restaurants.

Originally Posted by Neverna

^ Are your meds wearing off again?

CONFIRMED!_ARIVER_RUNS_THROUGH_IT!

Originally Posted by Switch

merkin language

Some even call spaghetti 'noodles'.


*shakes head*

I think TB speaks his own dialect that only he understands.

Originally Posted by OhOh

I would suggest the pudding is served prior to the cheese course and hence is not the last course.

It varies depending on which taste one wants on the palate at the end of a meal. So it can be served either before (French) pudding or after (British) pudding.

Megan Markle will already have learnt to call it pudding!

I live a little, but learn a lot, unfortunately nowadays I forget most of it. Can be useful or frustrating, if i remember rightly.