Name: Heinz Spotted Dick
Origin: England
Found at: Fresh & Easy, Fountain Valley
Cost: $3.99
Ingredients:
Wheat, Sugar, Wheat Flour, Raisins, Partially Hydrogenated Canola and Palm Oils, Nonfat Dry Milk, Partially Inverted Sugar Cane Syrup, Leaveners (Sodium Diphosphates, Sodium Bicarbonate), Egg Whites, Salt Spices, and Spice Extractives, Natural Flavors.
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Tasting Notes:
For what's essentially bread pudding in a can, it tasted like, well, bread pudding in can. There are instructions to heat it by microwave or steam it on the stove; but you can just easily eat your spotted dick cold.
The raisins, which provide the spots, leech their tartness and tang and provide most of the flavor. But more than anything, it tastes like a damp blueberry muffin that's been crammed inside a can. But for all its moistness, it does need the traditional custard sauce. I'll leave any further comments and/or punchlines, up to you.
Before becoming an award-winning restaurant critic for OC Weekly in 2007, Edwin Goei went by the alias “elmomonster” on his blog Monster Munching, in which he once wrote a whole review in haiku.