> 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.

I had never heard this saying (that I recall) until I read this thread. I even started typing a somewhat insulting post which suggested that Rabbitlord's saying was not as old as he thought and that "The proof is in the pudding" was the one true phrase and blah blah blah, but I didn't because I didn't want to be somewhat insulting.

Then, tonight, I was reading "Mere Christianity", by C. S. Lewis, and near the beginning of one of the last chapters in the book, he uses that phrase ("The proof of the pudding is in the eating") exactly like that. This book was written in the fifties.

While I still know that "The proof is in the pudding" is not a new phrase by any means, I felt obliged to post here as I chow down on a nice hot plate of crow.

Of course, "The truth is in the pudding" is just a laughable example of a modern mixed up metaphor, and I'd be up for a round of hearty mockery for whoever said it in a feeble attempt to rebuild my own pride.

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