Milk pudding query

Simple question really, which is the ingredient for the sticky milk pudding affectionately known by school kids as 'frogspawn'? Is it sago or tapioca? I mean the one with the bigger 'pearls'?

When I was a kiddie there were the three degrees as it were, fine semolina - delish with a dollop of jam, or the custardy/vanilla flavoured creamola, then a slightly more pearly variety, then a really sticky chewy and bigger pearl, but forget which is which. Anyone remember?

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Tapioca was always called frogspawn when I was at school, I hated it!

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So are you saying that tapioca is the really big one? See I loved it.

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Sago is the one with the biggest 'pearls', Tapioca is smaller. I love both of them. I think sago is made from a palm and tapioca from a root - but I could be wrong.

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Yes Tapioca is the frogspawn. I used to love it at school dinners but sometimes the lumps put you off.
I still buy it but in tins and I also buy Semolina too.
Don't eat a lot of sweets but do like some kind of milk pudding

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Sago is bigger but it was tapioca at school. Both are lovely.

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Bleugh!!! - hated it at school, home and still do!!!


One of the 'puddings' they gave at school were two oatmeal biscuits (bricks) with a dollop of semolina and a teaspoon of rose-hip syrup. I think the only reason we had the semolina was to try and soften the oatmeal biscuits, which if you held a spoon or fork on them and then hit your hand, the biscuit would shatter in a million pieces.

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They are both starch from the the root of the tree and exactly the same stuff.

That's a sago palm in Sarawak - not very impressive but I love sago/tapioca still make and eat the milk pudding

Semolina is from wheat I think, not related to sago at all

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Sorry Bruce - but they are not from the same plant.

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Well whatever plants they come from they are all delicious and a good cheap pudding too.

Inspired me to make a rice pudding for molliepops she loved that as a puppy and I am betting she would love it now !