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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 20, 2016 18:19:02 GMT -5
Pudding And Baseball-Part 1
If Pudding is the first baseman, brownie mix fields second and cookie dough is on third, who's at the plate?
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 20, 2016 18:22:23 GMT -5
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 20, 2016 18:27:51 GMT -5
Pudding And Baseball-Part 3 Did anyone ever call “Puddin’ Head” Jones, Willie? Jones even signed his baseball card with his nickname. “Puddin’ Head” Jones, had a lifetime .258 batting average with 190 career home runs and 812 RBI’s. Known for his defensive prowess around the hot corner, “Puddin’ Head” played most of his fifteen seasons in the majors as the starting third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1947-1959. “Puddin’ Head” was traded by the Phillies to Cleveland for a short eleven game stint and was then sold to the Cincinnati Reds for the remainder of the 1959 season. He remained there until he was released in 1961 at the age of 35. “Puddin’ Head’s” best offensive output was during the Phillies 1950 pennant winning season in which he batted .267 with 25 home runs and 88 RBI’s with 100 runs scored. So just how did “Puddin’ Head” get his unique nickname? He received it as a child after a song that was popular in the 1930’s called Wooden Head, Puddin’ Head Jones. “Puddin’ Head” Jones died from cancer of the lymph glands at the age of 58 in Cincinnati, OH on October 18, 1983.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 21, 2016 12:56:45 GMT -5
Want Proof?
The proof of the pudding
Meaning
To fully test something you need to experience it yourself.
Origin
'The proof of the pudding' is just shorthand for 'the proof of the pudding is in the eating'. That longer version makes sense at least, whereas the shortened version really doesn't mean anything - nor does the often-quoted incorrect variation 'the proof is in the pudding'. The continued use of that meaningless version is no doubt bolstered by the fact that the correct version isn't at all easy to understand.
The meaning become clear when you know that 'proof' here is a verb meaning 'test'. The more common meaning of 'proof' in our day and age is the noun meaning 'the evidence that demonstrates a truth' - as in a mathematical or legal proof. The verb form meaning 'to test' is less often used these days, although it does survive in several commonly used phrases: 'the exception that proves the rule', 'proof-read', 'proving-ground', etc. When bakers 'prove' yeast they are letting it stand in warm water for a time, to determine that it is active. Clearly, the distinction between these two forms of the word was originally quite slight and the proof in a 'showing to be true' sense is merely the successful outcome of a test of whether a proposition is correct or not.
'The proof of the pudding is in the eating' is a very old proverb. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations dates it back to the early 14th century, albeit without offering any supporting evidence for that assertion. The phrase is widely attributed to Cervantes in The History of Don Quixote. This appears to be by virtue of an early 18th century translation by Peter Motteux, which has been criticised by later scholars as 'a loose paraphrase' and 'Franco-Cockney'. Crucially the Spanish word for pudding - 'budín', doesn't appear in the original Spanish text. It is doubtful that 'the proof of the pudding' was a figurative phrase that was known to Cervantes.
The earliest printed example of the proverb that I can find is in William Camden's Remaines of a Greater Worke Concerning Britaine, 1605:
"All the proof of a pudding is in the eating."
The prrof of the pudding is in the eatingIt is worth remembering that, as the phrase is quite old, the pudding wouldn't have been a sticky toffee pudding from the sweet trolley, but a potentially fatal savoury dish. In Camden's listing of proverbs he also includes "If you eat a pudding at home, the dog may have the skin", which suggests that the pudding he had in mind was some form of sausage. THE OED describes the mediaeval pudding as 'the stomach or one of the entrails of a pig, sheep, or other animal, stuffed with a mixture of minced meat, suet, oatmeal, seasoning, etc., and boiled'. Those of you who have ventured north of the border on Burns Night will recognize this as a fair description of a haggis - "the great chieftain o' the pudding-race", as Burns called it in the poem Address to a Haggis, 1786. Mediaeval peasants, faced with a boiled up farmyard massacre, might have thought a taste test to have been a wise choice.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 21, 2016 21:34:58 GMT -5
A pudding that has not been mentioned yet (can you believe that?) A favorite old time desert my grandmother used to serve the family Noodle Pudding AKA Noodle Kugel A delicious treat that you may. may not want to include raisins too. I don't have the recipe but it's a cinch to look it up on the internet for our budding chefs out there. Deeeelish   |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 22, 2016 2:39:59 GMT -5
Please Make Note Of These Dates On Your Calendars
June 26th is National Chocolate Pudding Day.
September 19th is National Butterscotch Pudding Day.
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 22, 2016 10:33:35 GMT -5
Please Make Note Of These Dates On Your CalendarsJune 26th is National Chocolate Pudding Day. September 19th is National Butterscotch Pudding Day. We can't just get 1 Pudding Day? Otherwise so many flavours get left out... |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 22, 2016 13:37:06 GMT -5
Please Make Note Of These Dates On Your CalendarsJune 26th is National Chocolate Pudding Day. September 19th is National Butterscotch Pudding Day. We can't just get 1 Pudding Day? Otherwise so many flavours get left out... Absolutely right, my friend. And I will leave it to you to declare an official day of your choice to the pudding of your choice. An awesome responsibility but I know you can handle it with aplomb (not to be confused with plum pudding) |
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Post by DE Sinclair on Mar 22, 2016 15:38:50 GMT -5
We can't just get 1 Pudding Day? Otherwise so many flavours get left out... Absolutely right, my friend. And I will leave it to you to declare an official day of your choice to the pudding of your choice. An awesome responsibility but I know you can handle it with aplomb (not to be confused with plum pudding) How about a National Eat Pudding All Day holiday? Set it to coincide with the presidential election day. That way you can take the bad taste of politics out of your mouth with delicious pudding. |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 22, 2016 18:52:30 GMT -5
We can't just get 1 Pudding Day? Otherwise so many flavours get left out... Absolutely right, my friend. And I will leave it to you to declare an official day of your choice to the pudding of your choice. An awesome responsibility but I know you can handle it with aplomb (not to be confused with plum pudding) In that case I'll take June 26th (close to my birthday), and rotating puddings between my 4 faves (chocolate, vanilla, lemon and butterscotch). |
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Post by dupersuper on Mar 22, 2016 18:54:05 GMT -5
Absolutely right, my friend. And I will leave it to you to declare an official day of your choice to the pudding of your choice. An awesome responsibility but I know you can handle it with aplomb (not to be confused with plum pudding) How about a National Eat Pudding All Day holiday? Set it to coincide with the presidential election day. That way you can take the bad taste of politics out of your mouth with delicious pudding. Which pudding best gets the horrifying taste of witnessing racist Trump supporters beating people and threatening to kill them while wearing Nazi tattoos and raising their arm? |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 22, 2016 20:15:35 GMT -5
How about a National Eat Pudding All Day holiday? Set it to coincide with the presidential election day. That way you can take the bad taste of politics out of your mouth with delicious pudding. Which pudding best gets the horrifying taste of witnessing racist Trump supporters beating people and threatening to kill them while wearing Nazi tattoos and raising their arm? That's the good thing about pudding. They would all work |
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 22, 2016 20:18:36 GMT -5
There is a town that's so much fun
The weather is nice, so much sun
And bellies are full, every daughter and son
I'm talking about England's Puddington
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puddington,_Cheshire
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 23, 2016 21:08:23 GMT -5
Pudding-The Big Picture (Delay)
I haven't forgotten about the big pudding reveal I promised earlier. Even though no one here is breaking down my doors in anticipation, a Mr. Zack Zyrson from Wilmington, Del. has wrote me and asked "Hey Ish, whats the deal with that big pudding thing?"
I was ready to draw back the curtains today but I first had a dental appointment and major work was done. I now feel like crap and my mouth is sore because the Novocaine has worn off. The dentist says to eat soft foods for awhile, avoid seeds and spicy things
THIS LOOKS LIKE A JOB FOR PUDDING....UP, UP AND AWAYYYYY..........
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Mar 24, 2016 12:46:30 GMT -5
America's Foundation Of Pudding
We have seen the rise of Pudding Mania sweep the United Kingdoms during the early 1700s. We know King George I , dubbed The Pudding King, extoled upon the benefits of pudding. Loyal subjects, in deference to the king, made pudding a staple of it's diet be they upper or lower caste. Concurrent to the rise of pudding in England, tea filtered down to the common folk to quaff the thirst caused by pudding consumption. The tea industry quadrupled between 1710 to 1750 during King George's reign. And it continued to grow exponentially for the next 100 years
Pudding and tea consumption spread through out the Empire touching every continent. North America was certainly not an exception. And we find the first obvious example of America's thirst for independence was it's own form of pudding, a unique concoction developed in New England, soon to be the hotbed of the American revolution.
England needed to increase it's mighty armada of naval vessels to meet the demands worldwide of pudding and tea. To help finance this growth, its colonial subjects began to experience increased taxations. It was thought the subjects of the colonies would kowtow to this financial burden-after all, how can they refuse their pudding and tea? And most of the Empire did submit, lethargic with filled bellies laden down by their pudding and their anxieties soothed by tea
But Americans were different. They had their own pudding. New England pudding was all the rage. And so, face with onerous taxation without representation, the great Tea Party rebellion began. American rebel leadership such as Washington and Jefferson were wealthy landowners, and quite able to use their farmlands to provide pudding for their followers. Martha Washington was known far and wide as "Mother Pudding" to the rebels.
The Battle Of Bunker Hill was fought right after a breakfast of delicious pudding. The cruel winter at Valley Forge was unbearable when the pudding ran out. Benedict Arnold was charged both with treason and with trying to abscond with Martha Washington's secret pudding recipe. The final victory by the rebels and resulting signage of the treaty occurred during a tea and pudding break. The Declaration Of Independence has pudding stains.
America is built on Pudding. That explains many things.
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