I lived in the US for about five years and I can’t remember a time I had chocolate pudding. The nearest I got was probably tapioca pudding, something I am yet to encounter in the UK even in something like Lidl’s “American Week”, but there’s a chance I had what they refer to as pudding and just cannot recall it.

Why am I saying the distinction? Because in certain parts of the UK any dessert can be a pudding. Finish your evening meal as a kid and ask about pudding you might get a yoghurt or it could be a slice of apple crumble and custard. But I know in the US it’s a lot more of a textural sweet liquidy sort of substance that’s a bit like a yoghurt but not at all.

One thing I really don’t remember seeing though is chocolate pudding looking like a Muller Corner type yoghurt where you have a bit you can snap over to tip the contents into. But again perhaps that’s just because I never really looked in that section to spot it. I’m well aware, from seeing some of the other offerings in the Lidl “American Week”, that not everything they do is completely accurate and is often twisted to appeal to other audiences. So if you’re an American reading this can you let me know if I’m just blind as a bat and this style does exist over there or if Lidl have applied some creative discretion.

Naturally, I obliged. The pot got cracked over so all the little balls could fall into the pudding and I reluctantly gave it a mix. Mixing it certainly loosened up the pudding a little but it did get the balls super well coated and distributed throughout.

It actually reminded me quite a lot of the liquid part of Dairy Milk Buttons pots you get in the fridge section and from taking a look what Cadbury also call the Pots Of Joy. And whether that makes those pudding in the American sense or that this Lidl take is more aligned to that concept instead is unclear to me.

I could just ask my other half seen as he’s American but that would remove the mystery from my mind given the reality is I rather enjoyed these little chocolatey gooey pots with a bit of crunch going on in there. They felt light and pleasant to eat without leaving an unfavourable coating around the mouth afterwards. You don’t get very many spoonfuls to a pot but I think that’s more a me problem for enjoying it and me knowing it was about £2 for a pack of four of these (which sadly probably makes them not worth the money).