"This pudding has no theme" (Winston Churchill?)

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PUDDING HAS NO THEME--142 Google hits
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My Yale Book of Quotations is packed. What does anyone have on this famous  
food quote? Was it said about plum pudding?
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_http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/books/review/Blount-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=
1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1184645345-VlNIXAZy9FQJB41Jku7ZsA_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/15/books/review/Blount-t.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=11846
45345-VlNIXAZy9FQJB41Jku7ZsA) 
 
For more of such perspective, see the introduction, which is sound and  
lively. _Winston Churchill_ 
(http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/winston_leonard_spencer_churchill/index.html?inline=nyt-per)  would 
have been wrong to find fault  with this anthology, as he is supposed to have 
done with an overelaborate  dessert, by saying, “This pudding has no theme.”
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Lima News,  The  
Winston Churchill so it is  said once refused to eat a tain pudding because 
it lacked a theme  Denis Healy's latest Paper is indigestible for much the same 
reason The authors  of this document have in fact responded in the way 
officials always do when de-  of overall direction They have sunk into triviality 
The British must have been  copying some of our top cians speeches or some of 
their White of which they  issue quite a few But no matter how far old England 
sinks int
_Monday,  March 13, 1967_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=pudding+theme+Winston+churchill+AND+date:1967-03-13)  _Lima_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=pudding+theme+Winston+churchill+AND+cityid:
16362+AND+stateid:73) ,  _Ohio_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=pudding+theme+Winston+churchill+AND+stateid:73)  
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Anniston Star,  The  
Pudding Gets A Theme By  PHILADELPHIA There is an o I d story about Sir 
Winslon Churchill being served a  more than usually con- glomerate English dessert 
at the end of a moderately  bibulous public He tasted it experimentally and 
turned at once to the waiter  hovering behind hb chair he said a bil imperiously 
remove this pudding I do not  wish to eat this pudding This pudding has no 
Until very recently at any rate  there has been a strong resemblance between the 
pudding the great old ma
_Sunday,  November 03, 1968_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="pudding+has+no+theme"+AND+date:1968-11-03)  _Anniston_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="pudding+has+no+theme"+AND+cityid:744+AND+sta
teid:2) ,  _Alabama_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="pudding+has+no+theme"+AND+stateid:2)  
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Bennington  Banner  
pudding with a you may not even  like it By ELLEN CRONAN ROSE BRATTLEBORO A 
RECENT James Reston column was  enlivened by an anecdote about Winston chill 
and a bad dessert At a  political luncheon at London's posh Savoy Hotel Sir 
Winston was served a  dessert which Harold who recorded the story for posterity 
described as a rather  equivocal and shapeless mass of goo Sir Winston glared at 
his dish then  summoned the waiter Pray take away this he said It has no 
theme 
_Friday,  October 16, 1970_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=pudding+theme+Winston+churchill+AND+date:1970-10-16)  _Bennington_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=pudding+theme+Winston+churchill+AND
+cityid:2163+AND+stateid:98) ,  _Vermont_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=pudding+theme+Winston+churchill+AND+stateid:98)  



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