How pruddish are you.

[marval]

I think this is ridiculous, we have had this pud for years without complaints.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2627503/Council-chefs-rename-Spotted-Dick-after-branding-its-name-too-rude.html

[Sachs]

The new name doesn't sound quite right does it? lol! I

[jake-the-peg]

We have - but how long has the name meant - er - what it means now?

I don't know do you?

[Sachs]

Leave our traditional pud alone I say!!!! :0) Really wierd! Me & a couple of ladies were only talking about all the old fashioned puds this morning on the bus to work!

[jake-the-peg]

really Sachs?

You were comparing d1cks on the bus?

[marval]

How long before someone called Richard complains?

[whifffey]

We used to call it Spotted Asian Person.

[Sachs]

Earliest documented reference 1850!
http://www.answers.com/topic/spotted-dick-a-dessert

[Sachs]

LOL! Howling actually! ;0)

[mazie]

here you go folks an explanation as to how it got it's name. Agree leave our Puds alone :o)

With all these varied usages, you got a problem with "dick" being also derived from "pudding"? My sources all pretty much agree with the derivation, without being specific how. However, I can see "pudding" become "puddink" becoming "puddick" and then just "dick."

The word "dick" has appeared in any number of strange places. Around the 1840s, "dick" was used to mean a type of hard cheese; when treacle sauce was added, it became "treacle dick", and finally when currants or raisins were added (looking like little spots), the "spotted dick" was born.

The earliest recipes for spotted dick are from 1847.

[Bbbananas]

I don't know whether I'm pruddish or not.
But I know I'm definitely not prudish :-)

Correctness gone mad I say... mad.

[jake-the-peg]

No I mean when was d1ck first used to refer to a man's appendage.

Seriously though seems the council chefs got fed up with immature behaviour. The cafe over the road from me got a bit fed up of similar responses when ticket 69 came up and they had to call that out.

I'm sure if their customers start to behave themselves it'll be renamed back.

Must have upset the Sun journalists though not being able to pin such a juicy story on the EU! - I do feel for them!

[Bbbananas]

It comes to something when you can't call a spade a spade for fear of offending our black friends.
You can't say that someone's Jew'd you (in Lincolnshire it means to con someone)
And you can't call a d1ck a d1ck - spotted or otherwise.

When my kids were little & came in all grubby-faced, I'd rub their little faces clean (NOT with spit on a hankie like my mum used to - that's just disgusting) and I'd call them "dirty little arabs". It was not meant to be nasty, racist - it was just an expression we grew up with. I'd probably get arrested now if I called kids dirty little a-rabs.

[whifffey]

Why are Black, Asian, Arab people the target of so much defamatory abuse?

Has it been invented just for a lark?

[cazzz1975]

bizarre!, I suppose it was bound to happen, spotted richard is a stupid name, not to mention how many people called richard will get teased now. why didnt they just call it something normal like raison sponge and custard or something like that instead of dragging poor richard in to it!