You can find variations of pease pudding — lentils or split peas that have been boiled down and puréed — is a traditional British dish, but for many people it can be hard to stomach.

Plum pudding is an old-fashioned English dessert. It does not contain plums but is made with several fruits and raisins that used to be referred to as plums in olden times.

Dicksons now has 31 stores, sells more than 12,000 pork pies every week and produces 1.5 million pots of pease pudding a year. Husband and wife Michael Irwin and Helen Dickson launched the food ...