If you call it "pouring custard," where are you from?

[Anonymous]

I don't want to argue about how big a jackass the BIL is, but I was surprised that the letter-writer thought the normal term is "pouring custard." And I'd much rather think about linguistics than how to cope with tedious ILs

"She is nice and a good hostess, but she’s also kind of pretentious. Like she’ll use cloth napkins and china plates for a cookout, put flowers in a salad and call pouring custard 'crème Anglaise.'"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2023/09/06/carolyn-hax-sister-in-law-jabs/

[Anonymous]

I have *only* ever heard or used the term 'crème Anglaise.'

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have *only* ever heard or used the term 'crème Anglaise.'

+1
And I grew up in an unpretentious Midwest suburb. Thanks to the Martha Stewart show, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have *only* ever heard or used the term 'crème Anglaise.'

I think "pouring custard" is a Britishism, but I'm curious. I'd call it "custard sauce" because that's what the recipe I use calls it.

[Anonymous]

If it looks like a jacka** and sounds like a jacka**, it’s probably a jacka**.

[Anonymous]

Never heard the phrase "pouring custard" ever in my life. Heard "creme anglais" many, many times. He's just an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have *only* ever heard or used the term 'crème Anglaise.'

I think "pouring custard" is a Britishism, but I'm curious. I'd call it "custard sauce" because that's what the recipe I use calls it.

This isn't a thing I grew up with at all, but I suspect custard sauce is what people would call it. A French term would definitely have gotten you made fun of, but we didn't say "pouring custard" either.

[Anonymous]

I am apparently very uneducated; I've never heard of either.

[Anonymous]

I have never heard pouring custard. I would say crème anglause or maybe just custard sauce or just vanilla sauce or something. But I don’t think I make any recipes that really use that. I have a recipe that has a hard sauce which is similar but no eggs and it has brandy— we call it hard sauce.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Never heard the phrase "pouring custard" ever in my life. Heard "creme anglais" many, many times. He's just an idiot.

This.

[Anonymous]

"this runny pudding stuff"

[Anonymous]

Just custard

[Anonymous]

I lived in Scotland and we called it custard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have *only* ever heard or used the term 'crème Anglaise.'

I think "pouring custard" is a Britishism, but I'm curious. I'd call it "custard sauce" because that's what the recipe I use calls it.

This isn't a thing I grew up with at all, but I suspect custard sauce is what people would call it. A French term would definitely have gotten you made fun of, but we didn't say "pouring custard" either.

A French term for "English" , in an English sentence!

I'm so worldly that I use the term that worldly people on the Continent use for food from my culture!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have *only* ever heard or used the term 'crème Anglaise.'

+1
And I grew up in an unpretentious Midwest suburb. Thanks to the Martha Stewart show, I guess.

Same.