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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9854876" data-attributes="member: 78087">And then we can talk about British uses of the word “pudding”.Pudding probably most commonly means “dessert in general” (“would you like any pudding, we’ve got some ice cream in the fridge?”) but it of course means a wide range of more specific things, such as:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Specific savoury dishes (black pudding, Yorkshire pudding, pease pudding etc.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Specific sweet dishes (sticky toffee pudding, nursery lemon pudding, etc.)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">A generic description of homogenous slurry (“that bullet turned his brains to pudding”)</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Some people use it to refer to desserts that start as a mixture of dry and wet ingredients (butter, flour, sugar, water etc,) and then separate out during baking into a firm upper layer and a wet lower layer. A rare non-British example of this is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pouding_chômeur" target="_blank">pudding chomeur</a>, a Quebecois version.</li> </ul>In Britain at least, it does not mean “gelatine-based dessert cup”, which I think is the commonest usage in North America.</blockquote>