Oh Come All Ye Faithful For One's Christmas Pudding
Written by Joanne Leyland
Thursday, 08 November 2007
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The
Queen may buy her staff Christmas puddings from Tesco, but if a panel of
experts are correct she should be looking closer to home.
The Duchy Originals organic pudding from the Prince of Wales’ own range of
products has been named the best Christmas pudding of all by the food testing
experts at Good Housekeeping magazine.
The royal pudding came top following exhaustive testing of hundreds of festive
treats, winning out in the final list of four due to its home-made look and for
quite simply "capturing Christmas".
Unfortunately, the Queen herself may not be too keen to swap her Tesco pudding
for her son’s.
The Palace has negotiated a rather tasty deal with the supermarket chain to
save the Queen money when she buys her annual stock of puddings.....all 1,411
of them (at the last count).
The puddings are bought by the notoriously thrifty monarch as gifts for the general staff
at the royal homes and palaces.
Less than two years after the death of Diana and at the start of Mohamed Al
Fayed’s vocal campaign to prove that Prince Philip and the Royal Establishment
had "murdered" the divorced Princess, the Queen took the headline-grabbing
decision to stop buying the puddings she'd previously purchased from Harrods, moving
instead to the supermarket choice of many of her subjects: Tesco.
