Are Christmas puddings only English?

[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.

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

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

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

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

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

@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!

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

@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.

@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

We always had them growing up in Scotland.

And the revolting Black Bun at New Year.

Man, I love Christmas pudding.

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.

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

They’re unspeakably revolting so true! And to my family's horror, my DC have never tasted one 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...

Definitely Irish too.

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