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Christmas Pudding
By jeni | November 21, 2008
The Christmas onslaught continues. Every day there are more lights, bells, trees, ornaments, etc. It’s intense. But the place you can really tell? The grocery store.
I think I’ve mentioned this before, but most grocery stores are in the basements of large malls around here. I can walk to about four good groceries from my house, but I frequent the Marketplace in Tanglin Mall because it’s the closest. And when you have to carry your groceries home instead of just loading them into the trunk of your car, you start to think about that kind of thing.
Anyway, Tanglin Mall is in an area where a lot of expats live and it’s very catered toward us. Meaning there are lots of products from the US, the UK and Australia. I like experimenting with buying things from Australia and the UK because a lot of them I’ve never seen before and they just entertain me. Like biscuits. Little cookies that go with tea. We don’t really do afternoon tea in the US but I think we should. A little tea and a cookie in the afternoon never hurt anybody right?
Now that the holiday season has arrived in force though, the Marketplace is teeming with holiday goodies. One such goody (goodie?) is the Christmas pudding. I had a vague idea of what this was before I moved to Singapore, but I don’t think I’d ever really seen one. Apparently these are very traditional in the UK and have a lot of history behind them, which I quite admire. I think holiday traditions are great.
In case you don’t feel like reading the link, the basic idea, from what I gather, is that a Christmas pudding is a pudding, but with a ton of dried fruit and alcohol. It can take hours and hours to mix up and then it’s hung up to set for hours, days, weeks or even months. Nowadays though, I guess people don’t always have that kind of time, so there are Christmas pudding mixes all over the grocery.
Most intriguing to me is the Guinness Christmas pudding. This sucker costs like $40 (Singapore). I don’t know why, but I want one. Every time I see it I have to stop and take a look. It’s a pudding. That looks like a cake. Made with Guinness. It’s like some kind of Christmas miracle really.
Will I purchase this Christmas pudding? Probably not. I’ve sort of placed it on a pedestal right now. And I wouldn’t to ruin the beautiful idea of the Guinness Christmas Pudding by actually making it. That just won’t do. So for now I’ll just continue to stop and admire it every time I have to go grocery shopping.
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