To wonder why so few people dislike Christmas pudding?

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It's delicious... especially with brandy butter and cream.
Dont get ne wrong... I live all the alternatives like trifle, oavlova and chocolate log but you cannot beat Christmas pud.
This year im going to make Mary Berry's Christmas pudding icecream too!

It's too rich and too bitter

I didn't like it until dh made a version using Victoria sponge instead of suet. It was yummy.

I adore it and I'm not a pudding person but Christmas pudding is by far my favourite pudding. Has to be drowned in brandy and set light to and served with brandy cream yum delicious. Love hot mince pies too with brandy butter.

We've never had turkey for Christmas in this house.

But we get through inordinate numbers of mince pies. Mine are bloody excellent though I say so myself

It's the feeling almonds!! I love it with a bit of custard. Any hint of an almond in it, I can't even look at it!

I loved almonds, went paleo and got the norovirus. I will never eat another almond again!

My wedding cake was sorted by a friend. I tucked into it. And said, what is that?! It's nutty! Mmm, so good.
Yes, that's the almond. Face dropped and I left it alone after that!

We dont have christmas pudding or mince pies or turkey, none of us like them.
We have chocolate cake and double cream for afters( then pick at some matchmakers, after eights, and terrys chocolate orange)

I do like Xmas pudding if you microwave a bit for slightly too long. It begins to caramelise around the edges and those bits go chewy. That with double cream is worth having.

Turkey is lovely if it's a good quality, flavoursome bird, cooked properly - ie not dried out. I also love Christmas pudding, brandy sauce, mince pies and Christmas cake, but just in small/moderate quantities as they are so rich. I think a big slab of Christmas pud or cake puts people off.

Yup, Knitted and Janey. Fried, next day. Slice it, pan fry in butter or coconut oil til crispy round the edges, serve with vanilla ice cream. Maybe some booze and butterscotch sauce It's amazing.

Saw a stollen Xmas pudding this year- has a marzipan middle. Also one with sticky toffee pudding sauce at the bottom.

Can a tell a gross story? Last year, I was given a Christmas pudding by my lovely SIL. She makes them in a batch every year and, although I don't like them, I'd never think of knocking them back. I just up the ratio of brandy butter/pudding. Anyway, when I got around to boiling the pudding, I saw something crawl out of the muslin wrapping. Uh oh. I took off the wrapping and the wrapping and pudding was SQUIRMING with maggots.

So, I didn't like Christmas pudding already, and now I don't think I'll even be able to look at one ever again

I love it as well as sprouts... I'm a freak and I don't care.

I love it but it can go horribly wrong if you cook too long/not enough.

It is rank. I have found my people.

Every bloody year my DM and GM used to go on about how they had started making their Christmas puddings in September (or similar) and offer the evil things after Christmas dinner. EVEN THOUGH they knew everyone hated it except them ! :(

Since I moved out never had to go near the horrid things since and I married someone who equally hates it, bonus !

We didn't even have fruit in our wedding cake :)

Going to sound like a teenager... because it's rank!

It's the best thing about Christmas. With the mince pies. And the fruit cake. With Wensleydale.

Everyone in our house eats it except DSDs.

For all of you miserable heathens that don't like it, good for you, more for us. With rum sauce, custard, cream, brandy butter, ice cream or just hoovered into my gob straight from the fridge as leftovers. It's undoubtedly the food of the Gods.

So are mince pies.

Loathe it. Also not keen on Christmas cake. American friend told me that in the States wedding cakes are not fruit cakes. She had a chocolate wedding cake. Sensible choice.

... which may explain my excessive girth.

Turkey is lovely if it's a good quality, flavoursome bird, cooked properly - ie not dried out.

Agreed but I'm shit at cooking it.

OP Christmas pudding is awesome...

We love it. Especially if covered with copious amount of brandy then set on fire!!

Served with cold, double cream. Mmmmmm

Oh Claws, the horror, the horror! As I said upthread, I love the stuff, but that's given me a mental image I'm going to struggle to get rid of.

basic agreed, turkey that is properly cooked for the correct amount of time (not overcooked) , basted, and then rested whilst cooking the sides, is really really lovely. Dry overcooked turkey is just nasty.

Amd always always buy a high quality free range bird.

I might add, I am not cooking the turkey this year, my mum is, so I will probably still be chewing it come boxing day!

Christmas pudding is vile, so is Christmas cake. However I do like the little green balls of death, aka sprouts.