> Recently, I've been hearing the idiom "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" distorted into just "the proof is in the pudding." This morning, I heard someone on a radio show who used the phrase "the truth is in the pudding."
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> That's weird. The phrase must have been "the proof of the pudding is in the eating" for a hundred years or more, but it's diverged into at least two alternate forms in a fiftieth that time. The language is evolving before our eyes.
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> Of course, "the proof is in the pudding" may be much older than that, but it doesn't seem like it. The oldest reference to it that I can find on the 'net is from 2001, and I had never heard the phrase until earlier this year.

I heard "the proof is in the pudding" all throughout my childhood, so it's definitely older than you think. In fact this is the first time I've ever heard "the proof of the pudding is in the eating". Odd..

Might have something to do with the area you're in. I mean, sayings do change over time and they take additional time to filter across the country. Perhaps less so now than a hundred years ago because of t.v. and the internet, but even *they* aren't instant.

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