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magic pudding

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magic pudding
noun Australian English informal an endlessly renewable resource:
policy makers continue to see the environment as a magic pudding.
– ORIGIN 1980s: from the title of a children's book The Magic Pudding (1918) by Norman Lindsay, in which a pudding instantly renews itself as slices are cut out of it.