1. It's not excess of turkey and plum pudding that has been indigestible; it's the surfeit of news.

2. For desert there's coffee, gingerbread cookies and plum pudding.

3. There will be plum pudding, mince pie, other varieties of food and cranberry juice and squash.

4. Favorite desserts include mince pie or pumpkin pie, plum pudding and fruitcake.

5. There's traditional plum pudding or apple pie for tonight's dessert.

6. PETER : Then for dessert there's traditional plum pudding or apple pie, plus coffee.

7. Plum pudding is an English dish dating back to the Middle Ages.

8. Two hours later we clatter down the stairs of a West End restaurant feeling like two plum puddings on legs.

9. On the dinner table, we will find apples, oranges, chestnuts, walnuts and grapes. There will be plum pudding, mince pie, and so on.