Speedboat Jones posted:

The hell is up with figgy pudding, and why are these home intruders demanding it from me?

Good Sphere posted:

Robert Burns posted:

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang ‘s my arm.

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.

His knife see Rustic-labour dight,
An’ cut ye up wi’ ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!

Then, horn for horn, they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
Bethankit hums.

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll make it whissle;
An’ legs, an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle.

Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a Haggis!

Whybird posted:

The reason why loads of British things are called pudding is that the term used to be to do with how the thing was cooked -- you stuck it in a bag and boiled it, like a haggis or sausage, but also like how a Christmas pudding is traditionally cooked. Then the sweeter form got more popular and the usage shifted to include any sort of sweet dessert, whether you boiled it or not.

goatface posted:

Is thick custard pudding?

goatface posted:

You mix blood and a few other things (fat,)

goatface posted:

It's a big part of how you eat the whole pig.

Pope Corky the IX posted:

Was there an extreme pudding at some point? Perhaps in the nineties?

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Pretty sure Jell-O or someone else makes a Unicorn pudding with pink swirls and glitter.

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Pretty sure Jell-O or someone else makes a Unicorn pudding with pink swirls and glitter.

Haverchuck posted:

I vaguely recall these but it was just a swirl of two normal flavors, probably with a name like TWISTED or VORTEX

Pope Corky the IX posted:

That's magic, not extreme.

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

HKR posted:

Pistachio Pudding is the best pudding