It’s national chocolate pudding day!

Are you planning to celebrate National Chocolate Pudding Day? First you have to find it. Lately, I’ve seen variations on bread pudding everywhere. But the only time I see chocolate pudding in a restaurant is on the buffet at a Chinese restaurant.

If you’re a fan of this dessert, which I think of as a purely childhood dessert — probably from all those Jello pudding commercials featuring Bill Cosby — you’ll have to hit a buffet (which uses the canned variety, I suspect), a cafeteria or the refrigerated foods section of your local supermarket. Or you can make it yourself: here’s a recipe from the Los Angeles Times that’s both bread pudding and chocolate pudding at the same time.

I’d rather eat a chocolate cream pie.