I must share the cutest Christmas story with you. This exchange happened about 25 years ago. My husband Allan can be the funniest person....Allan hums and sings a lot. Every day. He has an affinity for Christmas Carols....year round. About 20 years ago he was in the kitchen singing the song We Wish you a Merry Christmas....."now bring us some piggy pudding, now bring us some piggy pudding" I stopped him and I could barely get out "did you say {snort ha ha snort gasp} Piggy Pudding?". He said "yes". I said, now I am getting that crazed kind of laughing where you can hardly speak..."it's actually Figgy Pudding" He just kind of looked at me for a minute and said "well, that's ridiculous, that doesn't even make sense". Honestly I was laughing so hard I was hysterical. Trying to recount the story for my co-workers the next day, I had to leave the room, I couldn't get the story out. Ahhhh, good times, good times.
So here is the actual song if you are so inclined. There are several versions of it. This is the one I grew up with.
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
Chorus:
We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas
We wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Good tidings we bring
To you and your kin
We wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Now bring us some figgy pudding
Now bring us some figgy pudding
Now bring us some figgy pudding
And a cup of good cheer
We won’t go until we get some
We won’t go until we get some
We won’t go until we get some
So bring it right here
So bring us some figgy pudding
So bring us some figgy pudding
So bring us some figgy pudding
And bring it right here
Good tidings we bring
To you and your kin
We wish you a Merry Christmas
And a Happy New Year
Repeat chorus three times
Did you make him some 'piggy' pudding? or at least some figgy pudding!
ReplyDeleteI did!!!! The Figgy Pudding recipe I chose is much like Sticky Toffee Pudding. He is eating a LOT of Piggy Pudding this week. He loves it.
ReplyDeleteThis is hilarious, Erin. We flambe our piggy pudding with brandy and one of our grandsons nicknamed it "the burning cake of doom." Enjoy! P.x
ReplyDeleteDoes he mean it in a good way??
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