N COMPETITION NO 286 you were invited to write a poem with the title . I White was told by his gran not to call it ‘afters’. Con Connell's narrator remembered ‘The day that “pudding” changed into “dessert” ’. For Vic Cole, the war was between Yorkshire and Bakewell puddings. Of the former, Mary Hodges remarked, ‘You need only eggs, milk and flour/ And a strong arm going to DA Prince.
