One year our 2 or 3 Christmas puddings were served up, a whole
pudding per recipient, by clueless local waiters, to clueless
local recipients, who were a bit indignant when I grabbed their
plates away from them ! - Was much quicker than explaining in
my then rather new halting German, that the extremely heavy
Xmas Puddings were to be divided for the Whole Table, & we
didn't want them poking it about & contaminating it with
their germs first. - (Many Germans don't even like strong
tasting Xmas Pud - where might they have ejected it ?). If you
are at a Xmas dinner somewhere on the planet with lots of non
British eaters & waiters, & the Xmas Pud's about to be
served - keep an eagle eye out ;-)