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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner 15:55 - Sep 2 with 903 views

This might mean nothing to a lot of yer, but I vaguely remember the above nursery rhyme, and so does my old mum.

She asked me what sort of pie Little Jack Horner was eating in his corner, and I really couldn't remember (I kept getting confused with Little Miss Muffet eating her Curds & Whey).

Any way, I looked it up and the Internet says 'Christmas Pie' - this doesn't sound right to me or my mum.

Is there a Suffolk version with a different sort of pie?

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:01 - Sep 2 with 845 views

wrightsrightglove

For some reason my first reaction was plum pie

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:03 - Sep 2 with 837 views

WD19

I think it was Christmas and pulling out plums was involved.

So maybe you are getting confused with plum pies (?)

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:07 - Sep 2 with 807 views

GavTWTD

Pudding pie?

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:09 - Sep 2 with 794 views

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:03 - Sep 2 by WD19
I think it was Christmas and pulling out plums was involved. So maybe you are getting confused with plum pies (?)

Do you have a penchant for pulling out your plums at Christmas, perchance?

But yes, that bit rings true: 'He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum.'

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:10 - Sep 2 with 786 views

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:07 - Sep 2 by GavTWTD
Pudding pie?

Ah! Now that sounds more like it, will run it past the old girl.

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:14 - Sep 2 with 773 views

Perublue

Christmas pie was my first and instant reaction.. they say go with your gut …. 1970’s Suffolk brought up child for clarity.

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:19 - Sep 2 with 743 views

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:10 - Sep 2 by NthQldITFC
Ah! Now that sounds more like it, will run it past the old girl.

Christmas pudding ? But then the rhyme doesn't scan, although a better bet than turkey pie:

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:26 - Sep 2 with 715 views

NthQldITFC

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:07 - Sep 2 by GavTWTD
Pudding pie?

I'm thinking it might have been something like 'puddeny'?

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 17:38 - Sep 2 with 589 views

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:09 - Sep 2 by NthQldITFC
Do you have a penchant for pulling out your plums at Christmas, perchance? But yes, that bit rings true: 'He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum.'

But yes, that bit rings true:

'He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum.'

"and said what a good boy am I "

is how it finishes

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 17:40 - Sep 2 with 589 views

IndependentlyBlue

Always thought it was “pudding and pie”.

Well it was in North Suffolk, late 1950s

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 17:42 - Sep 2 with 577 views

Trequartista

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 17:40 - Sep 2 by IndependentlyBlue
Always thought it was “pudding and pie”. Well it was in North Suffolk, late 1950s

That's "Georgy Porgy"

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 17:43 - Sep 2 with 571 views

Trequartista

Suffolk version is also Christmas Pie

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 06:43 - Sep 3 with 353 views

Bluebell

My memory is -

Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating his Christmas pie.
He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said “What a good boy am I”.

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 06:52 - Sep 3 with 341 views

LegendofthePhoenix

I remember it as "eating his pudding and pie" - which always seemed a bit rum to me, as it would be greedy to have both. But that's what I remember my Nanna saying to me when I was a nipper.

Edit: these things, these little details, are important. Part of our culture.

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 07:03 - Sep 3 with 307 views

Bluebell

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 06:52 - Sep 3 by LegendofthePhoenix
I remember it as "eating his pudding and pie" - which always seemed a bit rum to me, as it would be greedy to have both. But that's what I remember my Nanna saying to me when I was a nipper. Edit: these things, these little details, are important. Part of our culture. [Post edited 3 Sep 6:54]

No. It was George Porgie, pudding and pie. Kissed the girls and made them cry.

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 07:14 - Sep 3 with 287 views

Benters

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 07:03 - Sep 3 by Bluebell
No. It was George Porgie, pudding and pie. Kissed the girls and made them cry.

This.

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 07:17 - Sep 3 with 289 views

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 07:03 - Sep 3 by Bluebell
No. It was George Porgie, pudding and pie. Kissed the girls and made them cry.

I think you may be right.

Georgie Porgie pudding and pie
Kissed the girls and made them cry
When the boys came out to play
Georgie Porgie ran away

And

Little Jack Horner sat in a corner
Eating his Christmas pie
He stuck in a thumb
And pulled out a plum
And said "what a good boy am I"

My missus is from the big smoke. She is adamant it was "Eating his whey and pie". Christmas pie makes more sense, so probably a Suffolk localisation.

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 07:52 - Sep 3 with 235 views

IndependentlyBlue

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 07:17 - Sep 3 by LegendofthePhoenix

You’re obviously right about Georgia Porgie but my memory is still of “pudding and pie” in Little Jack Horner too.

Perhaps the “Puddeny Pie” explanation is a conflation of that?

Better to stay silent and be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 08:29 - Sep 3 with 180 views

WeWereZombies

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 07:17 - Sep 3 by LegendofthePhoenix

Whey is from Little Bo Peep.

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 08:35 - Sep 3 with 165 views

NthQldITFC

Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 08:29 - Sep 3 by WeWereZombies
Whey is from Little Bo Peep.

"Wahey" is from the Geordie version, "Wee Bo Peep, like — aye, that canny lass wi' the sheep an' all. She's lost 'em, mind, an' she's ganin' oot lookin' for 'em, proper flustered, like. Divvent worry, hinny, they'll turn up soon enough, I reckon."

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 08:57 - Sep 3 with 130 views

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Here's a 'rum' request: Little Jack Horner on 16:09 - Sep 2 by NthQldITFC
Do you have a penchant for pulling out your plums at Christmas, perchance? But yes, that bit rings true: 'He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum.'

and said oh what a good boy am i

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