the proof of the pudding is in the eating

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  1. One can only claim that something is a success after it has been tried out or used.
    — I know you didn't think it was a very good product, but just look at the fantastic sales figures. That's the proof of the pudding.

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First attested in William Camden's Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine (1605) as “All the proofe of a pudding, is in the eating.”
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