Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1898 — John Bull’s Pudding. [ARTICLE]

John Bull’s Pudding.

A terrible indictment has been brought against the famous English Christmas plum pudding. It is supposed to bo typically John Bullish, add yet we are asked to believe that most of its ingerdients are foreign— Greek currants. American plums, candied peel from anywhere, except England, and — culminating atrogjiy French brandy. The only consolation found is that the cinnamon comes from Ceylon, which is at least a British possession. It is, indeed, a blow to find that the flag on which the sun never sets does 'not cover the materials for an English pimp pudding. This is even worse than importing the roast beef of old England from Chicago.