Spot check

SIR – Staff working in the Strangers’ Dining Room, used by MPS to entertain guests, have apparently changed spotted dick to “Spotted Richard” in order to spare guests any embarrassment (report, June 15).

In Royal Navy parlance, any duff with currants or raisins is known as Dalmatian pudding or Dalmatian duff. Paul Ridgway

Ketton, Rutland