THAT’S WHAT’S SO FUCKING FRUSTRATING!

I’M PRETTY SURE IT’S ALL OF THESE! AND ALSO MORE THINGS!

This doesn’t really answer any questions, but at least I’ll end up at a nice curry shop.

I’m relatively certain that was the plot of a Hercule Poirot Christmas story told by Agatha Christie

Yep:

The word pudding was around long before there was a Britain. It was much simpler back then. A pudding was anything you stuffed into an animal intestine or stomach and boiled the Hell out of it, (See: Holy Water).

At some point, when ingredients like eggs, sugar, and flour became common, the Brits kind of went off the rails and completely lost the whole thread as to just what is a pudding.

Oh great, that only narrows it down to the last millennium or so, and the meat of nearly every beast, fish, and fowl.

So… Scotland?

Edit: I say! With these comments, I’m really being taken on a grand tour!

It means desert.

Thanks for clearing that up

What's a yorkshire pudding?

Tea being a code word for dinner, which probably does not involve any tea.

OK, but that leaves open everything the British might classify as “dessert”, which could be literally anything, including everything I listed previously

A chocolate mousse is whipped and much lighter and fluffier. It’s consistency is closer to that of a paste. Chocolate pudding is saucier and more gooey in texture. A mousse would be able to hold its form. A pudding certainly would not.

But they are very similar in both flavor and appearance