you say this but the other day when we were joking about the italians of ryslig calling jonathan and speedwagon's chocolate puddings for giorno 'cake', we found out that italian chocolate pudding is deadass the same kind of cake-looking thing
THAT SAID if there is one thing watching 'cook like a victorian' vids has taught me it's that the rep english food has is actually largely because fucking no one less than the upper class could afford cool food things and seasonings