Plum Pudding Day

What is a Plum Pudding? A question I felt I would never ask myself at any point in my life up to this point. It’s sort of one of those things that people just take for granted. You hear about them in stories, but you very seldom see them in real life; At least I never have. In fact, I racked my memories in search of a plum pudding related recollection. Sadly, none came to mind.

I found I had many memories of plums. Summer days on a hill in the park with a friend on a blanket. We were staring at the clouds with a bag of plums next to us. Just eating them and throwing the pits down the hill (in the direction opposite of where we had come from). The wind was gentile and light, bringing scents of charcoal burning for a family’s weekend barbecue in the park. The clouds that day were more than willing attendants to our shape naming needs that day. We pictured dragons, knights, castles, and fairies in the forms above us.

Puddings! Now those I have many more memories of. I’m quite the fan of puddings. My favorite is tapioca, followed closely by banana. Perhaps I should mix the two? Nah, I should get two helpings, one of each and have both! So many soccer games with pudding and juice boxes after. Birthdays, family gatherings, and of course pudding Tuesdays, which I observe every day. One can never be to careful, wouldn’t want my calendar to be off and accidentally miss a pudding day.

Back to plum pudding. In my mind it would be a glorious pudding much like a banana pudding, but plum flavored. Turns out I was very wrong. It seems to be a more bread like substance. It could even be some sort of alien egg. Who knows? No one, because I’m sure no one eats them. They are scary looking. Why don’t we just forget about plum pudding day, and have tapioca and banana pudding day? Works for me, if it works for you.