'Twas ever called thus.
It's only when it's served with a custard-yellow discharge that there's an issue.
UK council forced to swallow dick
Flintshire County Council has been forced to swallow dick following its ill-considered decision to rename Spotted Dick as "Spotted Richard" - a rebrand it ordered following juvenile comments from sniggering staff, According to the BBC, the powers that be pulled Spotted Dick from the menu after "several immature comments from a …
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Thursday 24th September 2009 09:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
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"will be asked to behave properly or will be refused service"
Looks to me as if they still haven't learnt. Put an amusing sounding item on the menu, you should expect some to attempt what they consider to be humorous comments. The correct action is to smile and say something like "yeah", and one is permitted to think "twat" if desired. It's 'basic' forming of good relations with others, especially when they are customers.
Go overboard and overreact, like changing the name, and anyone could predict you'll be held up to ridicule. Who wouldn't have predicted it ?
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Thursday 24th September 2009 09:20 GMT Cavan
non service is too good for em,
In future, any customers who act in this childish way will be asked to behave properly or will be refused service.
He concluded: "Let common tradition and common sense prevail." ®
Stone em ... surely that's a common tradition....
I can see it now,
All I said was this spotted dick was good enough for jahovah ...
ooh he said it again ...
(Monty Python icon missing)
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Thursday 24th September 2009 09:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
It *is* pc nonsense.
"In future, any customers who act in this childish way will be asked to behave properly or will be refused service."
Thus destroying any credibility this argument had...
A free country is one where we're allowed to be childish about old puddings. Stop people having a bit of fun and pretty soon the frustration builds up to the point where someone goes postal.
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Thursday 24th September 2009 09:20 GMT Anonymous Coward
Oh for the love of the wee man!
There should be a new law, people who go out of their way to make the world a dull place should be locked up in a grey cell with nothing funny to annoy them.
So people laugh at the name, people have been laughing at the name for as long as I can remember and probably since the conception of the Spotted Dick.
I think this just goes to show that people get too wound up in other peoples business and think the world should be fluffy, I have a feeling these people don't like movies like Shrek because of the innuendos in them.
Paris because I think she likes a big piece of Spotted Dick .... with Ice Cream *nudge* *nudge*
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Thursday 24th September 2009 09:24 GMT Anonymous Coward
Dickheads
So is it an offence to behave childishly now? When did they pass that law? Will Flintshire's children now have to starve until they're old enough to make mature jokes about the council instead of smutty ones?
My understanding is that (along with Spotted Dick) making smutty jokes is also a long-standing tradition in the British Isles - and I'm glad to see El Reg maintaining that fine tradition.
BTW, did you hear the one about the councillor who didn't have a dick?
Unbelievable!
Yeah, he was hungry all afternoon.
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Thursday 24th September 2009 10:15 GMT Anonymous Coward
How do British people have sex?
Bob: "Mandy, I've noticed you in the office and you're really sexy"
Sexual Harrasment Llama: "that sexual harrasment"
Bob: "Sorry, let me try again, Mandy, can I ask you out to dinner?"
Mandy: "You mean like a business dinner?"
Bob: "No, the kind where we get drunk and maybe end up 'pounding pudding' "
Sexual Harrasment Llama: "sex with drunk women is rape, and 'pudding pounding' is sexual harrassment, I'm calling the thought police now!"
Bob: "No, no, Mandy, look you know that dessert that Flintshire council banned the name of, take the second word, and, well you know Garfield..."
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Thursday 24th September 2009 11:39 GMT Jacqui
Pratt making obscene jokes to catering staff
OK, so some PHB comes in every day and makes an obscene joke about his spotted dick to the catering staff. SO the caterers change the name to stop the officious little git.
Now his mate on the council makes a big deal of it. They should have just banned him from the canteen from the outset.
What gets me is why has this pratt not been named and shamed.
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Thursday 24th September 2009 14:02 GMT Andus McCoatover
When my son was born..
...my ex. dropped a turd. It happens sometimes during birth. I wanted to call the boy "Richard" as in "Richard the turd". Vetoed. Ended up as Henry. Can't work anything out from that yet....
OK, going to the shitter now............. Back - no bloody paper. Pity who uses this keyboard next..
@Reallydo Wannaknow - beats that! I had a customer called "Richard Staines". No way could I call him 'Dick'.
Door's open. Barbour on. Gone.
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Monday 28th September 2009 09:16 GMT John Ozimek
Hehehe
"In future, any customers who act in this childish way will be asked to behave properly or will be refused service."
So, presumably, asking if they're are familiar with the Fanny Craddock version of this great dish is well out of order?
Ha! You think I jest. Go pick up a second-hand copy of "Bon Viveur", Fanny and Johny's book of puddings - one for every day of the year.
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