to think paying £100 for pudding is barking mad?

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Just checking out ebay loking at the price of Heston Blumenthal orange puddings. I assumed the reports I'd read of ridiculous prices paid were a bit of an urban myth. But no, people really are bidding £40 for a pudding. there's a buy it now one for £100.

It's a mass produce supermarket pud. ffs. Do people think Heston has made each one individually at the fat Duck just for them.
so much for the "everyone's tightening their belts this Christmas".

Just seen one at £150. Sorry to go on, but surely no one would be that mad.

Some people have a huge amount of money, so a pud like that will be one of many incredible items on their list. Plus visiting expensive restaurants and buying lovely handbags and shoes at hundreds of pounds a time.

£150 is my entire Christmas food shopping budget for the week for 4, including alcohol. Fortunately I also have nectar points.

Everyone never includes the wealthy if you are talking about basics. Possibly they would have gone to the Fat Duck last year and this is their version of economising.

These idiots could just buy the recipe for £2.99!

cgi.ebay.ie/HESTON-BLUMENTHAL-WHOLE-ORANGE-CHRISTMAS-PUDDING-RECIPE-/270673135507?pt=UK_Home_Garden_Food_SM&hash=item3f05604793

And sell them off on ebay at £90!

OMG DH told me yesterday that people are selling them on eBay but we had no idea it was for that much.

Isnt it just an Xmas pudding with an orange in it?! YUK Now I'm not a chef but that doesnt sound too tricky to me...

Huh? they had some in waitrose yesterday, i thought they looked pricey at shelf price, shall i go back and start ebaying!

How much are they in store then? Not that I have any intention of buying one. Euwwww.

They were 13 quid IIRC.

But that recipe is 1) pants, because the oranges take 7 weeks to mature, so the recipe is nothing like the Waitrose one, and 2) freely available in versions on both the Daily Mail and Telegraph (seems you need to vote Tory to want said recipe). I read all the online recipes so I was amused to see the various versions suddenly appear.

Waitrose are trying to get a new supply done in time, though I suspect the oranges may be less matured. The really stupid part is I'm certain they'll have gajillions of them next year, so why not wait until then, and hardly anyone likes christmas pud anyway - even with a posh glace orange in the middle, it's still a heavy dried fruit pudding.

FreudianFox you can't get any in store, hence the stupid prices on Ebay. They've sold out.

Littleducks you totally should - sell ten and that's your Xmas sorted! Though they'll probably all be gone by today.

Hey Little Ducks, where is your local Waitrose?

Heston was in Saturday's Times saying that he wasn't actually keen on Christmas pudding anyway!

Ridiculous - some people have more money than sense, thought my mum was going a bit OTT at spending £15 on a xmas cake

This one is the scariest so far, £10,000!

There is one on ebay for £499 he says he bought it for his family but is now selling it to raise money for charity! Someone has even bid on it!

I thought the one I found was pricey but the one domesticsluttery found has left me beyond shocked!!

found one yesterday for £850 but my surprise was much more profane than yours

I think my favourite is this one. Someone is trying to sell a bog standard Xmas pud for £37 on the grounds that it is an alternative to the Heston one. Unlike every other normally priced and freely available Xmas pud in the country.

someone boughu one for us, i just put in cupboard and ignored it, don't fancy the orange idea to be honest.

Dh came home yesterday and said about ebay prices so we stuck in on there. Sold for £80 on Buy it Now! total madness. I doing some charity suport stuff at the mo, so we putting the money in the hospital special care unit party fund.

good for you Mabs,does anyone eat xmas pud with or without an orange,I think it's like sprouts and turkey folk buy them because it's xmas not because they actually like them.Big sis asked kids what they wanted last xmas for dinner reminding them it was to be special and they chose mince and tatties,all eaten no probs

An MNer started a thread on here about selling one of these puds on ebay. I think she got it from her mum?
Wonder how much she got for it!

I wouldn´t pay that even if I could afford it because the thought of the candied orange makes me feel

We eat Christmas pud-every other year when my dad brings one over.

We do like it, though.

I love sprouts, and Christmas pud. But don't fancy the orange one!

i like pud, but i just don't fancy the orange one either.

No, I did at first-until I realised that the orange was candied.

Isn´t there candied peel in Christmas Puds already?