(Not sure how his page will end up... ;^)

I remember those shops! I never could remember the name Pudding Explosion...though...so glad you had the name! Once you were in the store did it have stairs that went down? I do remember buying a small safari leather bag there....and saved up my babysitting money for a long time for it! :)
- Susan

Watching 8 Miles High. I figure 3.75 stars. I took off a quarter of a
star for excessive pouting.
http://bit.ly/tQpHU

Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uschi_Obermaier

Review:

For a generation growing up under the shadow of the Nazis, the 1960s
was always going to be about more than putting flowers in your hair.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/nov/16/popandrock5



And friends, I believe I have solved they origin of the name for the
German head shop the Pudding Explosion.

In Germany, Humphrey indirectly earned fame during an April 1967
visit when some hippies, armed with what looked like a bomb, planned
to cause trouble at the place Humphrey was to speak. However, the
"bomb" contained nothing but pudding, and the plan was foiled by the
police. The would-be vandals were dubbed "assassins" and "ten little
Oswalds" in some widely-read conservative German newspapers; this
characterization sparked riots by left-wing student activists. The
well-known left-wing journalist Ulrike Meinhof (who had not yet
connected herself to terrorism) wrote in Konkret magazine: "It is
thought rude to throw custard pies at politicians, but not to welcome
politicians who have villages wiped out and cities bombed... napalm
yes, custard, no." This "pudding assassination" thus became an early
defining moment of the "68er" German student movement, many of whose
leaders moved into national politics later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubert_Humphrey

Jueri S.