"Spotted Richard" and custard, anyone?

[MadreInglese]

whatever next

[PeedOffWithNits]

sultana sponge is fair enough, no one would even have commented on the change as it is a proper description of the pudd

but spotted RICHARD - I am PMSL!!!!

heaven help any poor sod called Richard who goes to work there and happens to have a bad case of acne........

[LyraSilvertongue]

'It's political correctness gone mad'
Groan. How I hate that phrase.

[LedodgyDailyMailstinksofpoo]

OMG what next 'Gooseberry not very able in the mind department'. Instead of Gooseberry fool?

[UnquietDad]

It's beyond my Kenneth.

At the end of the meal one is presumably presented with a William. Which will, in a posh place, set you back a few Robert.

They're taking the Michael.

[PeedOffWithNits]

no ledodgy, surely it would be "intellectually challenged gooseberry dessert"

LOL

[HecatesTwopenceworth]

It wasn't done to be pc though, was it?

It was done because some people - and I would bet my last rolo it was blokes - kept making dick jokes.

The dick jokes probably got very boring, very quickly.

[PeedOffWithNits]

applauds UQD VERY clever!!

[UnquietDad]

"Strawberry liberated woman unafraid of her own sexuality?"

[hf128219]

Between 1981 and 1988 I went to a Convent Boarding School in Sussex. Weekly menus were typed up and - yes, we had 'Spotted Richard'.

It actually made it into the Newspaper then

[LyraSilvertongue]

Tart?

[UnquietDad]

ooh look
history repeats itself!!

[PortBlacksandResident]

LOL at "People make silly comments about everything in life, there is no need to change the name over it"
Councillor Klaus Armstrong-Braun

bet he's never had any comments

[LyraSilvertongue]

FGS, there are people called Dick. My grandmother's husband, for one.

[UnquietDad]

How about "Flamboyant Gentleman of Puddings"?

[PeedOffWithNits]

have heard a few school boy sniggers about chocolate logs over the years but i don't see anyone changing that name

[PeedOffWithNits]

how have the makers of Penguins got away with it so long....?

[PortBlacksandResident]

My local shop sells a sort of custard tart called a 'Wet Nelly' - sounds soooo diiiirty.

[PeedOffWithNits]

are we still allowed to call faggots by their name?

[UnquietDad]

A "spatchcock" has always sounded a bit rude to me.

[UnquietDad]

I have a vague memory of DW reading some school story in which they call a spotted dick an "eructated Richard"?....

[southeastastra]

ooh i really fancy a spotted dick now

[MadreInglese]

lol @ 'Strawberry liberated woman'