{"id":50647,"date":"2016-09-19T06:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=50647"},"modified":"2016-09-09T10:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-09-09T14:29:18","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-when-did-we-start-putting-proof-in-our-pudding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2016\/uncommon-knowledge-when-did-we-start-putting-proof-in-our-pudding\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: When Did We Start Putting Proof in Our Pudding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/proof-is-in-the-pudding-bowls-set-of-4?source=blog_uk_91916\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50650 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/featureproofisinthepuddingbowls.jpg\" alt=\"Proof is in the Pudding Bowls\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The pot calling the kettle black. A stitch in time saves nine. She saw the light. There\u2019s no shortage of idioms\u2014phrases that mean more than the sum of their parts\u2014in the English language. But while some are more or less self-explanatory, others are far more perplexing. Chief among them: The proof is in the pudding. What proof? What pudding? Why would one hide <em>anything<\/em> in pudding?<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a logical reason this one doesn\u2019t quite add up. Over the centuries, the phrase was shortened from the original: \u201cThe proof of the pudding is in the eating.\u201d In other words, if you want to know if the pudding is any good, you have to try it out. Hence the current phrase\u2019s meaning that something (say, a plan) can\u2019t be deemed successful until it\u2019s put into action. The original proverb hails from about 14th century Britain, back when the word \u201cproof\u201d meant \u201ctest\u201d and \u201cpudding\u201d could also mean \u201csausage\u201d. Which, in medieval times, was something that really, really needed to be tested before being fully consumed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/proof-is-in-the-pudding-bowls-set-of-4?source=blog_uk_91916\" target=\"_blank\">Proof is in the Pudding Bowls<\/a>\u00a0| $28.99<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pot calling the kettle black. A stitch in time saves nine. She saw the light. There\u2019s no shortage&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":50650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[110,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50651,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50647\/revisions\/50651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}