Here are some friends with simlar question as we.And I have this question for many days,anyone help us?
Kitty said: Yes.is the proof really in the pudding?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(is the proof really in the pudding?),it will help you,my kids.
also, where did this saying come from
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The meaning, as I see it, is that if something is done right, you will know in the end. For instance if when you are making 'pudding' (which is an anolgy for doing pretty much anything) and you decide to put in nutmeg and cinnamon. But in the end the two tastes do not work together. So in the end you see that what you did originally was not a good idea. It may have seemed good at the time, but the pudding (the end) proved otherwise.
"The proof is in the pudding'' is actually a shortened version of a very old proverb, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating.'' It means that the real worth or success or effectiveness of something can only be determined by putting it to the test, appearances and promises aside - just as the best test of a pudding is to eat it.
Sometimes the saying is reduced even further to simply a noun phrase, "proof of the pudding'' or "the proof in the pudding.'' Then it is used to mean "confirmation'' or "real test,'' as in "the proof of the pudding is if no one gets hurt.'' In fact, the shortened versions are used much more frequently nowadays than the long proverb with the "eating'' phrase.
There are sources that say the maxim goes back in English to the 14th century. Though unsubstantiated, the claim is not without plausibility. But watch out! Back then no one was talking about the kind of sweet "pudding'' confections we now get mostly from boxed mixes or pull-top snack cans or cafeteria counters.
Fourteenth century puddings were gutsy! What they were, essentially, were sausages - mixtures of meat, cereal, spices, and often blood, stuffed into intestines or stomach, and boiled.
If you're wondering "why pudding?'' it's useful to know that puddings were held in much higher esteem at one time, so much so that there was another old saying that went, in part, "if a woman knows how to make a pudding, ... she knows enough for a wife.'' Husbands back then expected at least one pudding a day on the table. Even the eminent 18th-century literary figure Samuel Johnson saw fit to commend his friend, the poet and translator Elizabeth Carter, thus - "(she) could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from Greek ...'' Add to that the concealed nature of pudding ingredients - whether in a blood pudding or one of the traditional sweet puddings full of dried fruit and nuts and enclosed in a dumpling crust - and the logic behind the expression becomes far less mysterious.
Whatever its actual origins, we find the expression in print since the 17th century. We have examples of its use by the English historian William Camden, by Jonathan Swift and Alexander Hamilton, and by Joseph Addison in his Spectator magazine, and it still remains popular today, in one or another of its versions.
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I hate pudding!
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Kitty said: Yes.is the proof really in the pudding?-I try seach this on internet but no results found.Maybe this is a stupid question.
Mike said: oh,no,you are wrong.I have found as below for this question(is the proof really in the pudding?),it will help you,my kids.
also, where did this saying come from
Answers:
The meaning, as I see it, is that if something is done right, you will know in the end. For instance if when you are making 'pudding' (which is an anolgy for doing pretty much anything) and you decide to put in nutmeg and cinnamon. But in the end the two tastes do not work together. So in the end you see that what you did originally was not a good idea. It may have seemed good at the time, but the pudding (the end) proved otherwise.
"The proof is in the pudding'' is actually a shortened version of a very old proverb, "the proof of the pudding is in the eating.'' It means that the real worth or success or effectiveness of something can only be determined by putting it to the test, appearances and promises aside - just as the best test of a pudding is to eat it.
Sometimes the saying is reduced even further to simply a noun phrase, "proof of the pudding'' or "the proof in the pudding.'' Then it is used to mean "confirmation'' or "real test,'' as in "the proof of the pudding is if no one gets hurt.'' In fact, the shortened versions are used much more frequently nowadays than the long proverb with the "eating'' phrase.
There are sources that say the maxim goes back in English to the 14th century. Though unsubstantiated, the claim is not without plausibility. But watch out! Back then no one was talking about the kind of sweet "pudding'' confections we now get mostly from boxed mixes or pull-top snack cans or cafeteria counters.
Fourteenth century puddings were gutsy! What they were, essentially, were sausages - mixtures of meat, cereal, spices, and often blood, stuffed into intestines or stomach, and boiled.
If you're wondering "why pudding?'' it's useful to know that puddings were held in much higher esteem at one time, so much so that there was another old saying that went, in part, "if a woman knows how to make a pudding, ... she knows enough for a wife.'' Husbands back then expected at least one pudding a day on the table. Even the eminent 18th-century literary figure Samuel Johnson saw fit to commend his friend, the poet and translator Elizabeth Carter, thus - "(she) could make a pudding as well as translate Epictetus from Greek ...'' Add to that the concealed nature of pudding ingredients - whether in a blood pudding or one of the traditional sweet puddings full of dried fruit and nuts and enclosed in a dumpling crust - and the logic behind the expression becomes far less mysterious.
Whatever its actual origins, we find the expression in print since the 17th century. We have examples of its use by the English historian William Camden, by Jonathan Swift and Alexander Hamilton, and by Joseph Addison in his Spectator magazine, and it still remains popular today, in one or another of its versions.
Other Answers:
I hate pudding!
yes. if you can't make pudding, you can't make anything. your sister's cousin's boyfriend twice removed. Hmm? Bread pudding
chocolate, vanilla, butterschotch, tapioca
all different flavors we like some and not others?
Milk and mix?
JELLO brand jello, Bill Cosby is cool
I love jello pudding pops so maybe it is.
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