The French refer to custard as crème anglaise. In fact, they call a lot of things they don't like English (c.f. Dick's thread on how to be offensive to the English in Ireland). When a guest at a relative's house as a child, I was told to make the custard during dinner preparations. It went down not at all well because I hadn't added sugar. Sugar? Why should I? I never put sugar in anything. If being English involves sweetening things, I am not English. However, I was never asked to help in the house again. Silver linings and fluffy things in the sky . . .