August 27, 2001

5:30 PM

I thought I was the only onewho giggled at the name of this British sweet treat. Traditionalists balk at changing the name, but supermarkets report sales lags because folks are embarrassed to ask for it. What would you re-name this dessert?
posted by Oriole Adams (24 comments total)

i'd rename it 'Cock-N-Butt'.

...

what?
posted by jcterminal at 5:33 PM on August 27, 2001

Splotchy Peter? (ducks)
posted by darukaru at 5:43 PM on August 27, 2001

marbled man-fruit
posted by o2b at 5:46 PM on August 27, 2001

These are hard times indeed for Spotted Disk.
posted by MrBaliHai at 5:47 PM on August 27, 2001

Officials at the Pudding Club... were left choking on their custard creams. “We are absolutely outraged by this,” said Simon Coombe, the club’s chief taster.

I love how people all have their different things that they can be outraged over, and, moreover, how these things seem so stupid to so many other people...

But you know what they say, one man's trash is another man's dick.

Or something.
posted by whatnotever at 5:47 PM on August 27, 2001

the pudding club?

the first thing that came to mind were gay cowboys.
posted by lotsofno at 5:51 PM on August 27, 2001

I love spotted dick.


well someone had to say it.
posted by geoff. at 5:54 PM on August 27, 2001

They could rename it giant throbbing cock yumyum pudding.
posted by fuq at 6:02 PM on August 27, 2001

HPVeeta?
posted by machaus at 6:24 PM on August 27, 2001

I'd rename it Spotted Dog. said near the bottom that when it was named, dick was used equally for dog, apparently.
posted by stoneegg21 at 7:08 PM on August 27, 2001

posted by otherchaz at 7:41 PM on August 27, 2001

"Her pies."
posted by wackybrit at 8:04 PM on August 27, 2001

Oi do loik a bit o' the ol' dotty donger, oi do. Nought be'er tha polka pecker, by gum. Ar, me ol' marm were fond o' a spot o' measly member, she were. Thinkin' boot a steamin' serve o' ye old plaguey blue-veined yoghurt thrower, ah, takes me back, it does.
posted by obiwanwasabi at 8:19 PM on August 27, 2001

I wouldn't rename it, instead I'd offer a shot of penicillin to go along with that there spotted dick.

hahahhahahhahahahhaha obi :)
posted by soynuts at 9:15 PM on August 27, 2001

I always thought Cadbury should have called that flake thing " Cadbury's Leprosy."
posted by dong_resin at 10:02 PM on August 27, 2001

Dotted Lick
posted by wondergirl at 10:34 PM on August 27, 2001

[new unpronouncable symbol]

- or -

the pudding formerly known as spotted dick
posted by basmati at 1:24 AM on August 28, 2001

Freckled Whelp.
posted by pracowity at 5:05 AM on August 28, 2001

They should just remarket it with the slogan "Do you swallow?"
posted by dodgygeezer at 6:22 AM on August 28, 2001

"Traditional Embarrassingly Named Pudding Dessert Food"
posted by Dreama at 7:19 AM on August 28, 2001

Dotted Spick
posted by msacheson at 8:45 AM on August 28, 2001

Then there's the delicate French pastry called variously pet de nonne or pet de soeur. The translation? "Nun's fart." Yes, it is quite sweet.
posted by dhartung at 1:53 PM on August 28, 2001