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ChattyCathy > wrote:
>On Wed, 05 Feb 2014 12:44:28 +0000, Ophelia wrote:
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>> Apart from the 'pudding' thing, it seems we have the same names for all
>> those things.
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>My Mom always referred to dessert as pudding - as do many other people I
>know here, but usually when talking about home cooking. Every restaurant
>I've ever been in here has a 'dessert' section on the menu - and often a
>separate menu.

I was recently moved to look up the etymology of "pudding". Seems
that it came from the French word "boudin", and originally meant
"sausage" (e.g., black pudding). Over time, it came to mean
anything boiled in a cloth bag.

It's an easy jump from
"the sweet thing boiled in a cloth bag that we eat after the meal" to
"the sweet thing that we eat after a meal".

Cindy Hamilton
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