To wonder why so few people dislike Christmas pudding?

[malificent7]

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!

[Laniakea]

I like Christmas cake & mince pies but Christmas pudding really is horrible - over powering flavour, horrible texture & too bloody dense. Brandy butter is even more disgusting.

Haven't had turkey but I like sprouts Mulled wine is a crime - sickly sweet and barely alcoholic.

[JustDanceAddict]

Too rich for me!

[Katedotness1963]

I think being brought up on clootie dumpling has made Christmas pudding not so bad, but a little goes a long way! I just realised we have not bought Christmas cake this year...I'm sad now...

[EggysMom]

I know exactly why I don't like it, and it's the same reason I don't like mince pies or Christmas cake. I do not like glace/candied fruit. So I don't like glace cherries, and I don't like candied orange peel - and this latter item has a habit of appearing in various festive foods.

So I only like Christmas pudding & cake when my Mum makes it specially for me, with currants and sultanas but no damned peel!

[LunaLoveg00d]

I was out for Christmas lunch with 19 other people on Monday. There were 5 dessert choices on the menu. 17 of us chose Christmas pudding - don't think that proves your theory.

[SherlockPotter]

I've never tried it... I love mince pies though

[user1470997562]

My dc don't like dried fruit at all. I think because they were given raisins every day as a healthy snack at nursery. They won't touch them with a barge pole now. I like xmas pudding though. Currently doing the 8 hour boiling of some.

[Greycat11]

Love it, with custard or ok and cream.
Know this won't go down well but it's also nice with a fry up, especially a fried egg

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

I've always assumed that liking things made out of dried fruit is some sort of hangover from rationing, when food was so terrible that fruitcake and Xmas pudding seemed to taste good.

Nope. Things were made out of dried fruit thousands of years ago before sugar was available. The only way to sweeten food would have been to use honey or fruit, and in the absence of freezers, fridges, canning or bottling, drying would have been an excellent way of preserving fruit for the winter months.

When spices like nutmeg, ginger, cinnamon and cloves were very expensive, exotic imports, only the rich could afford to use them routinely. The rest of the population had spices only at high days and holidays, e.g. Christmas and Easter.

Mincemeat, Christmas pudding and fruit cake all go back to the Middle Ages or earlier. I think the reason they are less popular now is that people have got used to eating lots of very sweet foods with less complex flavours and textures.

I love mince pies, Christmas pudding and Christmas cake. I don't like royal or fondant icing much so we make a Caribbean rum cake for our Christmas cake. It's very moist indeed and absolutely gorgeous. So looking forward to all these once-a-year treats! (And to the sprouts - I love sprouts.)