I (grew up in the US) always heard “fudge is made”. Is “chocolate” more common there in the saying? If so, a rare win for syllables in Australian English (some shortened slang threw me for a loop the first time I heard/read it).
Yep! I’m also a child of the 80s and only remember it with fudge. I guess it’s just a regional thing (and may even vary within the US, I guess, but even on television I’ve only heard the fudge version)
Fudge is 19th century British - there are recipies in Mrs Beeton’s cookbook - mid 1800s. I suspect it was invented as the result of a failed batch of toffee. Also tablet in Scotland is pretty much fudge. Home made fudge is how I learned, so probably not a commercial product as such for a long time.
I (grew up in the US) always heard “fudge is made”. Is “chocolate” more common there in the saying? If so, a rare win for syllables in Australian English (some shortened slang threw me for a loop the first time I heard/read it).
Are you talking about my “milk milk lemonade” headline? Yeah it’s always been chocolate but fudge would work too. It comes with actions also.
I think because fudge wasn’t really around until 20 years ago for us, someone changed it to chocolate. That’s how I remember it in the 80s.
that’s how I remember it from the 70s
Yep! I’m also a child of the 80s and only remember it with fudge. I guess it’s just a regional thing (and may even vary within the US, I guess, but even on television I’ve only heard the fudge version)
Fudge makes more sense but we just didn’t know what it was back then.
That’s interesting to me. Is fudge mainly a North American thing? I have a new rabithole into which to venture next time I’m on the train.
I don’t know. We definitely know what it is today but back then it was not something that was marketed to us. Nougat was probably as close as it got.
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Fudge is 19th century British - there are recipies in Mrs Beeton’s cookbook - mid 1800s. I suspect it was invented as the result of a failed batch of toffee. Also tablet in Scotland is pretty much fudge. Home made fudge is how I learned, so probably not a commercial product as such for a long time.
Canadian here…always knew it as fudge