Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[warpus]

You don't like sweet baked goods or cooked fruits and so on? Well, that would be a fairly big problem then. Do you dislike fruit cake as well? What about stewed fruit? Apple crumble?

When you say 'pudding', what do you mean?

I've seen fruit cake before - I would not wish fruitcake on my enemies - it looks horrible. Just thinking about the texture makes me cringe.

I'm open to apples being inside of baked things now. It's taken me years, but I've accepted it. It doesn't seem gross anymore, and actually quite tasty at times. My boss took me out to a "thank you" lunch one day, years ago, and I couldn't say no to dessert. Deep fried apple pie with caramel, cinnamon, and ice cream. It was amazing. Ever since then I've been down with apples inside of baked goods - within reason. It still seems wrong, but i accept that it can be tasty.

I looked up stewed fruit and it seems to just be fruit pieces? That's not really my thing either - when I eat fruit I prefer to have a whole apple,or banana, or whatever, in my hand. Pieces of random fruit - that's not my thing. I generally dislike sweet foods (with many exceptions, it's not easy to come up with rules that explain my culinary preferences)

Pudding to me has always been pudding. A semi-liquidy sweet snack. Whenever my mom made pudding, that's what it was.

Having looked itup, it appears that British people have 2 types of puddings: sweet and savoury. The savoury type of pudding is what I don't consider pudding. But I have to admit that British people do, even though I have the question the sanity of doing such a thing.

 

[Borachio]

Pudding is just a word, Mr Soup. I don't think it's significant.

Stewed fruit is fine. Even I eat it. The point is that you can eat fruit before it gets completely ripe. And some of the climactic conditions in the UK mean that it may never get ripe before it goes completely mouldy.

And you get to eat hot stewed plums! Which are truly magnificient. With or without "gert big dollops" of natural yoghurt or clotted cream.

 

[warpus]

Oh man, do I ever hate plums and figs.

Stewed fruit is fine. Even I eat it. The point is that you can eat fruit before it gets completely ripe.

I just eat fruit whenever, so I'm sure I've eaten stewed fruit before. Ripe, non-ripe, I don't know. I just buy the stuff and I eat it. They're selling it and it doesn't smell, so it's got to be edible. (Maybe that means that my fruit buying strategies are in need of an update though, now that you've got me thinking about such things)

 

[warpus]

 

[Arwon]

Pudding in the US means some sort of gelatin-laden sweet dairy goop. Like a thick custard or yogurt or blancmange. Or like YoGo in Australia. Pudding is kind of a weird thing to call it really, when the word custard is right there.

 

[Arwon]

Then again in England they use the word pudding as a synonym of "dessert" and that's pretty silly too.

 

[Arwon]

Types of pudding:

Christmas
Yorkshire
Black
Suet
Fig
Bread and butter
Malva

 

[Flying Pig]

Does steak and kidney feature? Those are still one of my favourite foods.

 

[Borachio]

Oh man, do I ever hate plums and figs.

I'm with you on the fig front. And dates. *shudder*

 

[Kyriakos]

^I don't like figs either. Haven't eaten one at least since i was 15, ie 20 years ago...

 

[ParkCungHee]

Pudding in the US means some sort of gelatin-laden sweet dairy goop. Like a thick custard or yogurt or blancmange. Or like YoGo in Australia. Pudding is kind of a weird thing to call it really, when the word custard is right there.

Custard is more like ice cream.

 

[Arakhor]

Custard is more like ice cream.

Custard? The yellow, runny stuff made with eggs, milk and sugar? How is that like ice cream at all?

 

[Borachio]

It's in fact the identical recipe, Mr Arakhor. (It doesn't have to be. There's a lot of chemical like muck that pretends it's ice-cream. But it should be custard.)

Ice-cream is just frozen custard with very small ice crystals. That's how I make it, anyway.

 

[Heretic_Cata]

3 pages of talking about disgusting(?) food

 

[warpus]

Pudding in the US means some sort of gelatin-laden sweet dairy goop.

Well, to be fair, I'm coming at this from a Polish angle - that's what pudding (Budyn) is to me - a sweet goopy thing that you eat and smile. Custard has a different texture though.

 

[Arwon]

Custard has consistencies ranging from as solid as in flan/creme brulee to pourable.

 

[Arakhor]

Custard has consistencies ranging from as solid as in flan/creme brulee to pourable.

This is true.

Well, to be fair, I'm coming at this from a Polish angle - that's what pudding (Budyn) is to me - a sweet goopy thing that you eat and smile. Custard has a different texture though.

We also have fools and the like, but if all 'pudding' means to you is something similar to chocolate mousse, I can understand you being somewhat surprised by being served solid food.

 

[warpus]

My dreams were crushed. EVERYBODY else got creme brule. I love creme brule. I sat there like an idiot with untouched solid pudding.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, I would make a comment about how clearly Christmas was ruined, but then I'm foolish and expect my Christmases to be nice and traditional, with trifle and sandwiches and Christmas cake and the like, but my parents haven't served all that in years. I still get slightly disappointed each year.

(You hate Christmas cake too, right?)

 

[Goodfella]

How gay men view Europe

I can definitely think of a better label for the Czech Republic.