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There are similar words in English. My favorite example is Pudding, which can mean anything from black pudding (a sausage), to yorkshire pudding (a bread) to pl
by benhsu 9y ago
There are similar words in English. My favorite example is Pudding, which can mean anything from black pudding (a sausage), to yorkshire pudding (a bread) to plum pudding (a dessert)
source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-brits-talk-about-when-they-talk-about-pudding https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-brits-talk-about-...
- mseebach 9y agoAnd (as covered in the article, but bears repetition), confusingly also in many areas simply means the dessert course. You can have apple pie for pudding.
- stordoff 9y agoYorkshire being a good example: you can have Yorkshire pudding as part of your main course, and then pudding afterwards (but sometimes might have Yorkshire pudding as pudding).
- stordoff 9y agoAre Yorkshire puddings bread? I've never thought of them as such.
- 0xffff2 9y agoThey are made from batter rather than dough, which I think disqualifies them as bread. On the other hand, corn bread and banana bread are also made from a batter, so you could call Yorkshire pudding a bread based on those. If I really wanted to assign them to a more common category than pudding, I would say they are a cake.
- k__ 9y agolol, in German we only have one word for batter and dough.