The Proof Is In the Pudding Meaning | Idioms In English
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it is basically.. you can tell the work that went into it..
Point of conjecture:
Proof is in results.
Results need experience.
Eating a pudding is an experience.
Having a pudding is not .
There is no proof in having pudding.
Only eating pudding.
A saying has to make grammatical sense, no ?
No, idioms do not have to make grammatical sense. Many of them do not.
However, here is the origin of the idiom, in case you missed it in the video:
Although idioms do not have to make grammatical sense, this idiom is actually a garbled version of the proverb ‘The proof of the pudding is in the eating,’ itself a variation that is still heard occasionally.
The proof of the pudding is in the eating means simply that you can only know the quality of a pudding by eating it, not by its appearance. Found in print as early as 1605, this proverb comes from a time when pudding referred not to a creamy dessert but to something more like a sausage or haggis. The fact that the full syntatical version of the idiom still survives allows many grammatical variations.
I'm not sure what you mean by having pudding. In modern English, 'to have pudding' can mean to eat pudding. It can also mean to possess pudding.
There was a time when 'to have something' meant only to possess or keep something, which has caused confusion in the idiom 'have your cake and eat it too.'
To modern English speakers that sounds equivalent to 'eat your cake and eat it too..' But that is not the case in 'the proof is in the pudding. The allusion here is simply that the proof (of how good the pudding is) resides in eating the pudding. Or, in other words, you cannot tell how good the pudding is until you eat it.