Comments on: Spotted Dick

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:36:52 +0000

They tried to change the name in a moment of PC madness to Spotted Richard but it seems people prefer Dick so they had to change it back as it didn’t sell as well.

Interestingly Richard as in “Richard the Third” is someting that goes down the toilet in Cockney rhyming slang so it’s not really suprising.

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 04:06:54 +0000

I’ve actually had Spotted Dick…it is similar to English Christmas pudding…I have relatives and friends from the UK and we all share many laughs over some common names of things…
eg: fag=cigarette

By: Luke

Luke — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:28:12 +0000

The father of a friend of mine went to England once (well, once that I know of…). Not only was he flustered when a woman asked to borrow a rubber from him, but it got even worse when she promised she’d return it. Almost as bad was when his hotel clerk asked if she could knock him up in the morning.

By: Ainslie

Ainslie — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:34:12 +0000

Spotted Dick used to be an old school dinners favourite and probably still is. I don’t know where the name originated but I suspect that whoever named it had a sense of humour.

It really has the same meaning here as you would expect and from my recollections always caused quite a lot of schoolboy humour at the dinner table.