Pudding sample

The term pudding sample (in a figurative, not literal sense) goes back to an English proverb : The proof of the pudding is in the eating , translated as the test of pudding is that you eat it or that you try it freely by studying . What is meant is that the decisive test of a recipe, a device, a regulation or other new type of device is trying it out. The way of speaking has been found - sometimes with different ingredients - in several languages ​​for hundreds of years (also in the quote Por la muestra se conoce el paño from Don Quixote ).

See also

• Ordeal by fire
• Water sample (law)

swell

• Duden Oxford Large Dictionary English , Dudenverlag, Mannheim 1990, under proof
• http://www.answers.com/topic/the-proof-of-the-pudding (accessed October 29, 2009)