Christmas Plum Pudding, and all they soaked me for it, with both hard and soft sauce and a leaf of real holly on it, was twenty-seven cents! And say, I've tried all these plum puddings, Van Camp and Heinz and all the nationally advertised brands, yes sir, I've tried the most scientific of 'em, and I've never had a better one than I got myself surrounded with that evening at the cafeteria—the Father Junipero Serra Mission Inn they called it, by the way.
Fact, afterward I kind of introduced myself to one of the managers, and he told me they made this plum pudding up themselves, and he claimed they used one and a quarter—well, it may have been one and three quarters per cent., I can't just exactly remember now—but anyway, he claimed they used more citron and more raisins in their plum pudding than any of the nationally advertised brands, and he told me that during the Christmas and holiday months, that is, from October to March, they sold an average of 897 plum puddings a day!
