Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
I'm assuming that "Christmas pudding" is some ghastly British dish this is not a pudding in the dessert sense, but some kind of casserole?
No. Christmas pudding is a dessert eaten after Christmas lunch which is usually turkey. It's amazingly heavy and amazingly rich but it is not ghastly. As I said, I like it but have to be in the mood for it.