# Spotted dick **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [August 23, 2002, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191 "2002-08-23T06:59:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2002, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/61 "2002-09-06T20:52:47Z")
I thought that nougat was the soft spongy caramel-stuff in Milky Way, Snickers, Three Musketeers, or the like (I think one of these is called a Mars bar in England). That’s definitely not the same thing as divinity: Divinity is much sweeter, and it has a sort of “crunchy until it dissolves” texture somewhat like baked dried merrengue. ---
**Author:** ![goddessodd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@goddessodd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goddessodd)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2002, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/62 "2002-09-08T05:00:53Z")
I looked up both nougat and divinity in my Better Homes and Gardens New Cook Book. Both nougat and divinity call for granulated sugar and corn syrup mixed with beaten egg whites. The nougat recipe adds a tablespoon of cornstarch, but the divinity adds a teaspoon of vanilla. The difference I think is that the nougat is cooked to 286\* soft crack stage while divinity is cooked to 260\* soft ball stage before pouring over the egg whites.What I have seen called divinity has always seemed to be on the chewy side, not at all meringue like. Now, I have also seen a candy called “sea foam” which is more like the texture you describe, but is made with brown sugar instead of granulated white sugar. Hmmm…now I am really confused! ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2002, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/63 "2002-09-10T02:54:44Z")
Owl, don’t know what seaside rock is, but candy canes are great. Think hard peppermint candies in a cane shape. Sweet, peppermint, crunchy, tasty. ---
**Author:** ![DopeyDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c77e96/32.png) [@DopeyDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DopeyDog)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/64 "2016-10-29T10:28:23Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > To support **Dex** , there is no such link between dog=dick. And I have books that would have listed it if it had existed. > > And I’m not afraid to use them.😃 Yes but Dex also said “Both spotted dick and spotted dog were traditionally boiled (or even steamed) in a cloth, but nowadays they are usually baked.” “Nowadays they are usually baked”? 😕 He just blatently made this up as if it was a fact, but it is not even true. ---
**Author:** ![aldiboronti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc348/32.png) [@aldiboronti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aldiboronti)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/65 "2016-10-29T19:08:09Z")
Spotted dick has been one of my favourite puddings since school days. Just writing about it has me salivating. Americans that haven’t tried it don’t know what they are missing. I am reliably informed that the Gods on Mount Olympus feasted not on ambrosia but on spotted dick and I’m sure one of the Gnostic Gospels tells us that Jesus and the disciples broke not bread but spotted dick at the Last Supper, although I may possibly have misremembered that one. ---
**Author:** ![Canadjun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)\ **Post date:** [October 29, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/66 "2016-10-29T19:46:09Z")
Do zombies have spotted dicks? ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/67 "2016-11-01T03:12:32Z")
> [@Nametag](#): > > Divinity is NOTHING like white chocolate. White chocolate is essentially sweetened cocoa butter; it has a subtle chocolate flavor that is often unappreciated by the less enlightened, and it is very rich and sweet. > > Divinity is somewhat like fudge, but it has no cocoa, no cocoa butter, and very little fat. It’s made from sugar, milk, and egg whites, and may contain nuts. Would that be the divinity that ends our shapes? Yes, I know it’s a zombie thread, but how often do you get a chance to use a Shakespeare joke? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2016, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/68 "2016-11-01T07:11:26Z")
> [@Irishman](#): > > Owl, don’t know what seaside rock is Hard peppermint candy, usually sold in sticks, made from several pieces in different colours formed so that some text (usually the name of the place it’s sold in, but could be anything) “goes all the way through”. The same material is often also formed into novelty/comedy items, and there is also comedy effect in the fact that the ubiquitous sticks tend to be about six inches long with a pink external coating… [https://www.flickr.com/photos/patricklondon/5657284442/in/album-72157626581730338/](https://www.flickr.com/photos/patricklondon/5657284442/in/album-72157626581730338/) [https://www.flickr.com/photos/patricklondon/5657283616/in/album-72157626581730338/](https://www.flickr.com/photos/patricklondon/5657283616/in/album-72157626581730338/) [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dm-jWvh13Q](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Dm-jWvh13Q) ---
**Author:** ![misling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ab097/32.png) [@misling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misling)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2016, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191/69 "2016-11-02T17:20:01Z")
[http://gizmodo.com/the-origin-of-the-candy-cane-1482189978](http://gizmodo.com/the-origin-of-the-candy-cane-1482189978) They are just hard peppermints, really, stretched into a cane shape. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spotted-dick/125191.md?page=3)