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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Hmmm.... I always understood it to mean something about the tradition of a coin that was hidden inside British Christmas pudding, that one could only find by actually spooning it out and putting it in one's mouth.
Stitchawl
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As you can see from this article, when this quotation first appeared, a pudding wasn't even the sweet variety that we now think of, but a potentially fatal meat dish
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/p...e-pudding.html.
And this article explains the quote:
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The full proverb is indeed the proof of the pudding is in the eating and proof has the sense of “test” (as it also has, or used to have, in phrases such as proving-ground and printer’s proof). The proverb literally says that you won’t know whether food has been cooked properly until you try it.
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http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-pro1.htm