Taste test: which Christmas pudding lights up our firefighters? — theguardian.com

There is only one festival foodstuff more divisive than sprouts: the flaming cannonball of dried fruits that arrives at the table after Christmas lunch. One family member will hate it, one will have spent a whole year looking forward to its sweet, heavy charms, everyone will be worrying about the combination of drunk people and flames. Truro fire station’s Green Watch are no different. Admittedly they are a bit more handy round a blazing globe of raisins and booze – if you don’t have hoses and helmets to hand, they say, keep a damp teatowel handy. In between emergencies (our first tasting gets delayed by a call-out to nearby Falmouth), station manager Matt Riches, watch manager Jason White, and firefighters Jon Brooker, Josh Jones and Gareth Davey take their places round the Truro fire station dinner table, and pronounce judgment on this year’s ready-made offerings. Which puddings sparked their interest? And which failed to light their fires?

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