The proof of the pudding…

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Is in the eating. Which make sense.
It is NOT “The proof is in the pudding” which is clearly nonsense, but I am hearing repeated on the television.

*pudding, ggggg,
Why can’t we edit the title? Off to start another thread on Site Stuff…

I've been hearing that the proof is in the pudding for some time, not necessarily just on TV. I agree with you that the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

In Priti Patel's case the proof of the puddin' is in the eatin'. No, I'm not making a political side-swipe there but she is the only person I can think of at present who leaves off the 'g'.

If the proof is in the pudding does that mean that a carefully written out maths explanation has been dropped into a raw sponge mix and duly steamed in a basin with golden syrup at the bottom? In maths I used to have to use side-headings 'given', 'to prove' and 'proof', so that is why I used it as my 'proof' example.

Thank you @JoMumsnet for correcting my spelling error 😀

Happy to help.

Of all the places to slip up, it HAD to be here!

Brace yourself. Please sit.

I once saw an educational video in Physics about 25 years ago that explained the saying "the proof is in the pudding" due to a plum pudding being used by Rutherford establishing the structure of an atom... ie the plums were electrons or some such

I'm sitting. I braced myself.
Righto.

That's taking retro fitting too far.
(And ignores the fact that the correct saying, 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating..." is much more than 25 years old. 17th century or thereabouts.)

You forgot Alix Scott.

The Dutch word proef ( pronounced proof) translates as both taste and test/ sample.

i always thought the pudding phrase was more the taste/ trial of the pudding is when you eat it. Lots of dutch words come through in English and vice versa ( strong sailing links with the two countries)

Sadiq Khan also lacks g's. Very annoying.

arf on em carnt speak proper

I didn't really mean to sidetrack from puddings to anyone but I suppose it was the 'ing' ending which led me on.

My child's Y2 teacher never said "ing" properly. Drove me up the bloody wall!

The rest of her speech was ok bizarrely

Beth Rigsby does that too. Drives me mad. Sounds so ignorant.

Beth Rigby. Puddin', eatin', wishin' and hopin' and thinkin' and prayin', plannin' and dreamin', each night of his chaaaaarms, that won't get you into his aaaarms!
It's a song. As you were. 😂

Khan's elocution is dreadful

Yes. I'd forgotten her when I was remembering Priti Patel.

There's one person I do forgive for leaving off the 'g', which is so inconsistent of me. It's the man who does the repairs to old documents on The Repair Shop.

I don't think it's Rigsby who sounds ignorant.

Chris? I'm asking him to restore an old journal for me.

Side-track - Can you ask them to do things without having to be on TV? I guess you can.

Yes I wouldn't want to be on the show. I contacted him privately through his website.

In maths I used to have to use side-headings 'given', 'to prove' and 'proof', so that is why I used it as my 'proof' example.

Oh God, Euclidean proofs! We used to have to learn two by heart as homework, the next lesson was everyone coming to the blackboard and reciting a proof. The teacher called us in alphabetical order and as I was an M in those days, even if he craftily started from the end of the alphabet I never needed to learn them as listening to 12 or more people recite them I would know them! Never let a Geography teacher teach Maths!

Proof/prove with the meaning "test/trial" also makes sense of the otherwise nonsensical expression: "the exception that proves the rule".

He would not 'except'.

Drives me nuts.