Here, have a fact about Christmas // Paignton Pudding Disaster

Merry Christmas! I saved the most disastrous of Christmas oddities for last.
Imagine if you will, a 900 pound Christmas pudding. This was the dream of the little English town Paignton in 1819, as a way to honour the anniversary of their town charter. Things didn't quite go how they thought as the pudding was still raw in the middle, even after boiling in the brewer's furnace for days.
No problem. The townsfolk decided to try again in 1859 to celebrate the arrival of the railway, and this time, went even bigger. Cooked to perfection, the pudding was made from 500 pounds of flour, 190 pounds of bread, 400 pounds of raisins, 184 pounds of currants, 400 pounds of suet, 96 pounds of sugar, 320 lemons, 150 nutmeg seeds and 360 quarts of milk. It was over 13 feet in circumference.
While it was made to celebrate the railway, it was also going to feed 850 poor of the parish and 300 railway labourers. That did not happen. As the pudding was being wheeled out, guarded by police, a crowd of 18,000 sightseers (drunk) rushed the pudding (i imagine them scrambling in mosh-pit style) and demolished it in entirety.
A larger pudding was made in Aughton, Lancashire in 1992.
Don't be greedy, folks.

For the record, I have not tried this type of "pudding". Photo and recipe found here.

Information from The World Encyclopedia of Christmas written by Gerry Bowler.
If you're lucky, you can grab a copy of this book on Amazon.
More information on the Paignton Pudding Disaster can be found on page 170.

Merry Christmas!