ThePuddingStore’s Adventures in … Making Pudding! (and Pogosticking)
Starring James F.W., Erin Q., and Christine; and Featuring Scraggles the Kitty

So thePuddingStore is nearing its third anniversary, and there hasn’t yet been an adventure in MAKING puddingy goodness? Blasphemy! But have no fear, the people mentioned in the title of this article are here! To solve the problem and whatnot. Yes. Moving along! This adventure was originally supposed to take place in the H.C., where Erin lives at the top of the street and James lives at the bottom. There’s also a store moreso at the bottom. And in the middle…

Scraggles! The only real reason he got put in this article is because the picture was in my scanner when I went to scan the pudding-making pictures. But Christine and I did see him/take this picture on our way to James’s, so it works. Remember when we put Scraggles in James’s fedora? Cat in the Hat! Bahahahaha. Whew. Anywho, we got to James’s and then to the Kwik-Way/Bastard-Mart, only to discover that there was no DIY-pudding to be found. Well, actually, I think there was, but it was lo-fat or something, so we decided against it and just bought a 4-pack of this stuff:

The plan was to take it back to my house, put it in a big bowl, and pretend we made it. But then my parents got mad, so we ended up just eating it really fast and skee-daddling. And by “we” I mean James and Christine, because I have never eaten pudding fast in my life. I also tend to hoard stuff, which is why I was able to take a picture of the pudding today. Man, that’s really old pudding. On to the actual pudding-making!

Actually, before we made our pudding, we played with Christine’s totally-‘80’s pogo stick.

Christine and James were good at it, I sucked, James stole it from Christine, Christine got violent. Also at somepoint, James did some glaring:

And now, we’re actually getting to the actual pudding-making! Brought to you by the good folks at Jell-O.

Yup, Bill Cosby was there and everything! Actually, that’s a lie. I just wanted to fix another blasphemy – not a single picture of Bill Cosby on thePuddingStore! Yeesh. Anywho, let’s get a closeup on this pudding package…

How can it be “instant,” yet take 5 whole minutes to make?! So much blasphemy in this article… Anywho, you’ll also notice the 4 steps listed on the back of the package. And we’ve got pictures of us following each one! Wheee!

Step One


Step Two



(I picked the “beating” one because I hadn’t gotten to be violent yet.)

Step Three



(We actually used four bowls too! We saved one for Kristen, who was in Halifax with her swanky “too-good-for-UCCB” Neptune drama camp at the time.)

Step Four


And after all the steps comes licking the pudding off the utensils. …And glaring at the utensils after that’s done.



Christine got to lick the bowl, which gave her a chance to be disgusting:



…Ugh. Anywho, here’s us eating the adventure.

James was being invisible for that one. He’s great. The pudding was yummy, by the way.

And that’s it for thePuddingStore’s adventures in making the middle part of its name! I hope you all enjoyed it, and next time you can have some too. …If you’re in the area. Yeah. Kitty!