I used to be fed blancmange when I was young, I don’t remember the taste of it, and I’d have to look up a recipe to find out more about it, but last night I was introduced to a new form of blancmange, Blanc Manger Coco.

It’s a card based game where each player is dealt a number of cards with phrases on them and they play a card with an appropriate phrase on it when the question card is shown. The player of the question card then decides on the most appropriate (or inappropriate!) answer and that person wins the round and takes over the question card stack.

Although I understood one or two phrases, it was way above my language ability, even a native speaker on the night said she found it difficult sometimes, but it was clearly an enjoyable evening for everyone.

I retired early, as the English say …

blancmange | bləˈmɒnʒ, bləˈmɑːnʒ | 
noun British a sweet opaque gelatinous dessert made with flavoured cornflour and milk: a good old-fashioned blancmange | [mass noun] :  a double helping of pink blancmange. 
ORIGIN late Middle English blancmanger: from Old French blanc mangier, from blanc ‘white’ + mangier ‘eat’ (used as a noun to mean ‘food’). The shortened form without -er arose in the 18th century.