"Spotted Richard" and custard, anyone?

[MadreInglese]

whatever next

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........

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

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

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.

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

LOL

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.

applauds UQD VERY clever!!

"Strawberry liberated woman unafraid of her own sexuality?"

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

Tart?

ooh look
history repeats itself!!

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

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

How about "Flamboyant Gentleman of Puddings"?

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

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

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

are we still allowed to call faggots by their name?

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

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

ooh i really fancy a spotted dick now

lol @ 'Strawberry liberated woman'