Brandy as crêpe Suzette and cherries jubilee while serving. Brandy is traditionally poured over Christmas pudding and set alight. The flames consume most of the alcohol but the pudding is left with a distinctive flavour. The term "brandy" is a shortening of "brandywine", which was derived from the Dutch word "brandewijn", itself derived from "gebrande wijn", which literally means "burned wine". In the general colloquial usage of the term, brandy may also be made from pomace and from fermented fruit other than grapes. If a beverage comes from a particular fruit (or multiple fruits) other than exclusively grapes, or from the
What About Us? (Brandy song) back to life with the force and devastation of a tortoise being plucked from the airing cupboard and set on fire: this rocks hard, it’s the tippest of the top, it gets better with every single listen, and it might well be Rodney’s best work since ‘Say My Name’." Somewhat critical with the track, his colleague Piers Martin found that "What About Us?" was "a slippery, twitching slab of computer funk that thrusts Brandy, fleetingly, into the 21st century, while Devon Thomas "The Michigan Daily" called it "guaranteed mainstream club play". Allmusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine ranked the song among his