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FRANK DEFORD: Maybe it still stings the purists that Richard's contrarian ways worked. The proof is in the pudding. INSKEEP: The proof is in the pudding, he said. Tim Lowe wrote us all the way from Santiago de Cali, Colombia, and he writes the following: Frank, the proof is not in the pudding. It would be a messy, if not completely silly place to keep it.
The original expression means that you can't know whether something will work or will be any good until you actually try it out yourself. This is especially true for something that sounds good in theory but has yet to be proven. (This pudding was prepared by a master chef, so is it any good? I don't know, let's taste it and find out.)