Gay Child

[franceslievens]

Over the weekend, while changing channels looking for cartoons to watch Little Bit lands on a live performance from a band on some music channel. She immediately starts to dance and clap along.

Me: Do you like the song?
LB (with stars in her eyes): Yes!

Yesterday LB was eating pudding^* in the living room while I was doing housework in the kitchen. She calls to me:

LB: I like this song!
Me: You do?

I can't really hear which song is played on the radio, so I go into the living room. It's the same band she liked over the weekend. We don't own it on CD or in iTunes. She's never heard them before, but my girl has fallen in love with Pet Shop Boys.

^*Meaning she was eating pudding and not she was eating dessert, you crazy British persons.

Comments

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Pudding is not dessert?

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Pudding is dessert, but Brits use it for any kind of dessert, so an apple can be pudding, as long as you eat is as dessert.

(Which LB wasn't. She was having an afternoon snack.)

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

Thanks for explaining. I thought you meant that pudding meant something else (than a desssert)in your book so I was confused!

So basically you meant that she was having a dessert as afternoon snack and not as dessert? ;- )

Anyway I didn't know that Brits would call an apple or anything dessert, pudding.

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Basically I meant she was having pudding, like flan, but not flan, but that's another kind of pudding. :-)

I like to watch the original British version of Masterchef and it's pretty disconcerting to hear those very serious judges say something like "He totally messed up his pudding." to which I can't help to think "But he didn't make any pudding! He made a pie!" I always thought saying pudding for dessert was something you did with children, but it's a very normal thing to say.

[frenchani.livejournal.com]

I know but I couldn't resist adding confusion to my previous confusion after you mentioned "Which LB wasn't. She was having an afternoon snack."!

I wonder how you would translate "pudding" in French btw. I used to make something that we called "gâteau de pain" in my family and that some people confused with "pain perdu" because it's made with stale bread too (and milk and beaten eggs and rum and raisins), but isn't the same thing because "pain perdu" is basically what Americans call "French toast", except that it isn't toast of course...anyway, my "gâteau de pain" was the closest thing to pudding that I know French dessert wise, or rather it looked kinda like what we imagine pudding to look like.

But now, knowing that Brits call any dessert "pudding" it makes sens if the word "pudding" doesn't really translate...

Is "pudding" even a special dessert for them?

Please describe the dessert LB was eating!

[frances-lievens.livejournal.com]

Your dessert is what we would call a bread pudding, but it has nothing to do with other kinds of pudding, which are basically desserts based on milk. The package states "pudding" in French as well. It's one of those powder things where you add milk and you end up with something that could be the filling of an éclair (but less tasty because it's instant). It's like flan or crème brûlée or crème catalane. If you make it yourself it's basically milk, something to thicken the milk like rice flower or corn flower, sugar and vanilla or chocolate or saffron to add taste. Some recipes add eggs. I think all milk eating cultures have their own variety of pudding.