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Are Christmas puddings only English?

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LutinDeSapin · 23/12/2020 06:23

Or are they British and Irish too? Half my family is English and I know that side of the family have them. I made friends with an Irish lady and found a couple of cute Christmas pudding decorations I was going to give her but am suddenly worried I might offend her because it's an English thing.

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TeacupDrama · 23/12/2020 06:30

They are Scottish too, English is not a synonym for British

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LordEmsworth · 23/12/2020 06:38

That is literally the OP's question, are they English or British Confused

OP, sorry don't know but the gift sounds lovely anyway!

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devildeepbluesea · 23/12/2020 06:39

I went to 5 shops trying to find one yesterday, sold out almost everywhere. I'm in Wales.

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CherryValanc · 23/12/2020 06:43

Not sure about its origin, but Christmas puddings are eaten in Ireland and not seen as an English or British thing.

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Marchitectmummy · 23/12/2020 06:48

@TeacupDrama - you have missed the question tbe OP asked!

Perhaps British, my husband remembers having them as a child in Scotland, but his mother was English so not 100 percent sure!

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miimblemomble · 23/12/2020 07:14

My Scottish MIL always served Christmas puddings, and they certainly stack them high in M&S !

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InTheCludgie · 23/12/2020 07:19

Growing up, Christmas pudding was always on our menu on the day and I'm Scottish.

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taeglas · 23/12/2020 07:28

Christmas puddings are part of the Irish Christmas tradition. I am Irish. My mum when I was little often made two Christmas puddings one for Christmas day and a sago plum pudding for the last day of Christmas. I think any Irish person would love to receive such a lovely gift.

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Djouce · 23/12/2020 07:29

They’re unspeakably revolting, but we certainly made and ate them annually when I was growing up in Ireland.

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BalloonSlayer · 23/12/2020 07:38

In my first job we got a free three course lunch every day.

There was a pudding called "College pudding" which when I tried it was identical to Christmas pudding.

I wondered if it ws invented at Oxford/Cambridge/Eton or somewhere.

In the Beano/Dandy of old it was called Plum Duff, this must be where "up the Duff" comes from as a variation of "in the pudding club." Beano and Dandy are Scottish.

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Happytentoes · 23/12/2020 07:44

We have them here in Scotland , but they may go by different names - plum duff as pp said, Christmas dumpling, but Christmas pudding is very common, often home made.

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AdaColeman · 23/12/2020 07:48

The Scots have the famous Clooty Dumpling as a version of Christmas pudding.

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0blio · 23/12/2020 07:53

Clootie dumpling doesn't taste like Christmas pudding though, and isn't traditionally eaten on Christmas day.

We always had a Christmas pudding (Scotland) and my mum used to put silver charms in it.

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PinkyPinkerton · 23/12/2020 07:57

@LutinDeSapin

Or are they British and Irish too? Half my family is English and I know that side of the family have them. I made friends with an Irish lady and found a couple of cute Christmas pudding decorations I was going to give her but am suddenly worried I might offend her because it's an English thing.

Definitely eaten in Ireland.
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vanillandhoney · 23/12/2020 09:12

@TeacupDrama

They are Scottish too, English is not a synonym for British

You were so offended by the title that you didn't even read the post Hmm
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RaspberryCoulis · 23/12/2020 09:15

We always had them growing up in Scotland.

And the revolting Black Bun at New Year.

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JonHammIsMyJamm · 23/12/2020 09:16

Man, I love Christmas pudding.

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ClaudiaWankleman · 23/12/2020 09:19

Why would it be offensive to give someone that gift, even if they didn’t traditionally make Christmas puddings?

I don’t celebrate Divali but I wouldn’t be offended if someone gave me a candle and/ or some fireworks to celebrate.

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wonkylegs · 23/12/2020 09:30

They are generally eaten in lots of places that the English & Irish have taken the tradition (usually parts of the former Empire) , I know my S.African family and friends eat them out there.
Here's the wiki page in them

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pudding

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LutinDeSapin · 24/12/2020 15:33

They’re unspeakably revolting so true! And to my family's horror, my DC have never tasted one Shock I have just dropped it off, so I hope she likes it. Why would it be offensive to give someone that gift I didn't want to appear to be an arrogant (half) English brat who thought that because it's English it must also be British and Irish too...

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Anoisagusaris · 24/12/2020 15:35

Definitely Irish too.

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taczilla · 24/12/2020 15:40

My family (Irish) eat plum pudding at Christmas and use poitin for the flame no less. I just have a swig of the poitin.

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