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==Origin of the nickname==

[[File:Jersey Christmas pudding podîn d'flieu.jpg|right|thumb|A [[Christmas pudding]], not Thomson's preferred analogy for his atomic model]]

The first known writer to compare Thomson's model to a [[plum pudding]], a British dessert with whole raisins, was an anonymous reporter who wrotein an article for the British pharmaceutical magazine ''The Chemist and Druggist'' in August 1906.

{{blockquote|While the negative electricity is concentrated on the extremely small corpuscle, the positive electricity is distributed throughout a considerable volume. An atom would thus consist of minute specks, the negative corpuscles, swimming about in a sphere of positive electrification, like raisins in a parsimonious plum-pudding, units of negative electricity being attracted toward the centre, while at the same time repelling each other.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=25 August 1906 |title=What is Matter? |url=https://archive.org/details/b19974760M1456/page/328/mode/2up |journal=The Chemist and Druggist |volume=69 |issue=8 |pages=329–330}}</ref>}}