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Proof is in the pudding

By contrast, men don’t think twice about wading into a calorie-packed pud. And that helps women, with 60 per cent of those who do have a dessert preferring to share it, says the study, based on a survey of 3,000 Britons.

Meanwhile, six out of 10 of those questioned said they felt it was difficult to get traditional desserts, with many fearing that they were dying out.

Chris Brewer of Crown Carveries, which carried out the study, was quoted by the ‘Daily Express’ as saying, “It was really interesting to see so many traditional puddings appearing high on the list of men’s favourites.

“Perhaps our taste buds have come full circle as we search for a bit of nostalgia on pudding plates.”

- Women ‘too self-conscious to order a dessert in restaurants’, PuneMirror.in, November 11, 2011.

2. The Palm Jumeirah is not sinking into the sea, contrary to speculation in recent days, a Nakheel executive says.

“The proof is in the pudding,” said Shaun Lenehan, the head of Nakheel’s environment department. “The Palm is intact. If there were subsidence, you would see cracks in the buildings, windows popping out. We have no evidence of that happening.”

But the US$12 billion island has settled slightly since it was created, in line with all artificially created land masses, Mr Lenehan and other engineers said.

He was responding to claims from a landscape surveyor speaking at a conference in Qatar, who was quoted as saying that the Palm Jumeirah was sinking by an average of 5mm a year and might flood in the future if ocean levels rose. The engineer cited satellite images of the island taken periodically over the past few years.