{"id":9012,"date":"2010-09-09T08:45:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T08:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=9012"},"modified":"2010-09-07T21:25:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T21:25:09","slug":"i-love-spotting-dick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=9012","title":{"rendered":"I Love Spotting Dick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 0; margin: 5px;\" src=\"\/images\/spotted-dick.jpg\" alt=\"Spotted Dick\" width=\"334\" height=\"220\" \/>One of my favourite puddings as a child was spotted dick.  It featured on the menu at school almost weekly because the kids loved it so much.  With custard there was nothing else like it on a cold school day.  For those unfamiliar with this and wondering why the hell I&#8217;m talking about pouring custard on a dick, it is a dessert made from sponge and laced with dried fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the spots, not quite sure where the dick comes in but anyway.  I just read that Flintshire Council in North Wales are to ban the name and call the pudding spotted Richard instead.  How stupid is that, it is a perfectly innocent name which we enjoyed smirking about as children.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know this but Tescos changed the name to Spotted Richard back in 2001.  Has the world gone politically-correct mad, Dick is and always will be more preferable to Richard.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Even chairman for The Pudding Club Peter Henderson believes the whole thing is bonkers.  And if you want to check out their site <a title=\"The Pudding Club\" href=\"http:\/\/www.puddingclub.com\/puddingclub.html\" target=\"_blank\">you can find them here<\/a> You can even stay over and sleep in a bed which looks like a box of chocolates.<\/p>\n<p>I think a trip the Cotswolds could be in order next year.  \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite puddings as a child was spotted dick. It featured on the menu at school almost weekly because the kids loved it so much. With custard there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/?p=9012\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1120,3,35],"tags":[2628],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9013,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9012\/revisions\/9013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alexsuze.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}