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Americans eating in UK, dessert, desserts with funny names, expat, Food, humor, pudding, separated by common language, travel
An American eats UK dessert. On purpose.
Fly Cemetery –Janie’s in Brodick, Isle of Arran, Scotland. Homemade soups, sandwiches, and puddings (desserts) to die for!(similar recipe at Cooking With Granny)
Eton Mess (Image credit & recipe: Jamie Oliver)
Spotted Dick [Recipe & Image credit: The Spruce Eats]
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Ah yum. Takes me back to school and the joys of dead man’s arm aka jam roly poly.
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I’ve wanted to try this for years, but never see it on offer. I was told the name came from the original cooking method of steaming the pudding in a man’s shirt sleeve?
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I thought it was the look and taste but that may just be school food for you…
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Fly cemetery – served with custard at school – yum. Sorry to be pedantic but that’s a pavlova in the picture, not a mess. You have to break it all up and mix it together to make a mess :)
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I know, I know… I included this version for sentimental reasons. The first time I had Eton Mess was at a group dinner in London with friends. They brought this to our table and proceeded to mash it slightly into individual dishes, with more berries over the top. Here’s a more traditional view from BBC Foods:
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‘Fly Cemetery”! Brilliant… and people flock to it, I suppose? And yet if you said….
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It’s really quite popular (here in Scotland anyway)!
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Wow, if those are as good as they look I’d risk eating a dead fly or two!
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So, so, SO good!
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Flies are all protein! hahaha Ask any camper. Names notwithstanding they look great. Names don’t bother me, I grew up eating Bangers n’ Mash, Toad in the Hole and Bubble and Squeak!
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No fair! You Canadians grow up speaking mostly-British while we Americans have to learn a whole new language.
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hahah In true Canadian form . . . I am so sorry!
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And that’s why the entire world loves Canadians! 💕
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Flies may be protein, but still not for vegetarians. I grew up bilingual, Canadian and American, not quite English and you can thank the French and Dutch for that. There was also a word or two of Welsh and Swedish thanks to the two grandmothers. I am a mongrel through and through.
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I still can’t get over something called spotted dick. It sounds like an STD and I just can not eat it. I had an Eaton Mess once and found it disgustingly sweet. Never heard of a Fly Cemetery but I bet the kids would love it, especially at Halloween. Pass me a brownie or a Nanaimo bar!!
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Nanaimo bar! Yum. :)
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I am French Canadian with a British mother. I was exposed to a lot of English desserts. I found them to be really sweet, but the ones I disliked most were fruitcake and trifle. The sherry is an added yuck. 🤪
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Ha! Terrific names, Barb. It might help with a diet to call desserts gross-out names… Okay… so it might help for five minutes anyway.
Hugs. :D
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