Welcome to this week's Dash of Different Diction. Today's word is pudding. Now, I know you know what pudding here but they sometimes use it different here. Here is a really good description from Wikipedia.
"In the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries, pudding refers to rich, fairly homogeneous starch (or dairy) based desserts such as rice pudding and Christmas pudding, or, informally, any dessert. The word is also used for savoury dishes such as Yorkshire pudding, black pudding, and steak and kidney pudding.
In the United States, pudding characteristically denotes a sweet milk-based dessert similar in consistency to egg-based custards, though it may also refer to other types such as bread and rice pudding."
I decided to choose this as my word of the week in honour of all the dinner parties I've been going to! My flatmates and I have started a tradition. About three weeks ago we invited our new friends Mags, Danny, and Matt over for dinner. Then last weekend we went over to dinner at Mag's flat and this weekend we've been invited for dinner at Danny's. It's a nice Sunday dinner tradition! I hope we keep it up. But that's how my new word was learned. Sophie offered to bring cupcakes for pudding. The phrase threw me off completely when I first heard it! I said cupcakes FOR pudding? How does that happen? And then she kindly explained to me that pudding just meant dessert. Yum!
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