[HPFGU-OTChatter] Brit-Speak: Food

Kathryn Cawte kcawte at ntlworld.com
Mon Nov 1 21:15:51 UTC 2004



> 1) What is all this talk about "puddings" and "tarts"???  I am especially
curious
> about "treacle tart."
>

Pudding either means dessert in general or a specific type of dessert (you
know English has more words than almost any other language you'd think we
would be able to get by without using the same darn word for several things)
like Christmas pudding. Uh except of course when it means a sort of pie (for
want of a better description) made with suet pastry stuff (I'm using all the
technical terms here, you can tell!). Generally if it's made in a pudding
basin it's a pudding ....

> 2) What is tripe?
>
Trust me when I say you're better off *not* knowing

> 3) What are "meat pies"?
> (particularly, I remember several HP canon references to "steak and kidney
> pie" ... what is it?)
>
Uh - do you Americans not have pies then? It's basically made of pastry and
filled with something - in the case of steak and kidney, with lumps of
stewing steak and pieces of kidney.

> 4) I'm also puzzled by "beef tea."  Is this like the American "broth," or
> something else entirely?
>

Yes I think it is exactly like broth.






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