Why do we eat christmas Pudding? I'm actually asking.
My name is Max Shadbolt and I am Jamie's resident historian
So I'm genuinely asking why do we eat Christmas Pudding
According to Charles Dickens in the Christmas Carol
That was the pudding. Mrs Cratchet entered, flushed but smiling proudly and be-lit with Christmas holly stuck upon the top.
What a load of old rubbish. None of us actually like Christmas pudding.
but yet we still have it. So why?
Well it goes back to our medieval chumbraves. Oh thankyou so much for everything!
They had this horrible thing called Christmas Pottidge and basically this pottidge
Was this grim sort of porridge thing. But it get's worse it had meat and onions and basically anything you could think of that's disgusting.
It was in the damn thing. It had 13 ingredients, to represent Jesus and the 12 Apostles
Bless them. Then they were sort of stirred up into this huge mixture
We have this thing called stir up Sunday, where every member of the house hold comes along and stirs it.
You stir it east to west to represent the journey of the wise men.
So when did it actually become a Christmas Pudding that the occasional lunatic quite liked.
Well, we're talking about the 1700's, when dear old King George the 1st came over from Germany. Hello germany.
and brought with him his love of puddings. So he came over and he asked for this disgusting pottidge
To be dried out, sort of steamed, made a bit more interesting or whatever and decorated with holly.
The only good thing that we do when it comes to Christmas pudding is setting the damn thing on fire.
Oh look at that, realism, AH it's on fire.
If you wouldn't mind doing a little comment down here
and letting me know why you like Christmas pudding or whether you are right and you agree with me
that it's disgusting and wrong and should be outlawed
Toodaloo all. Bye Bye.
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