Dutch pudding is not made out of fish!

or, what could have been a review of plentyoffish.com

PlentyOfFish, or PoF for short, is an old player in the world of free dating websites. It also happens to be one of the few sites left where you can browse profiles without becoming a member first.
So yours truly the Pudding Taster went to PoF and, to his surprise, found a woman he'd like to contact. She looked nice (4 pictures, a good sign), was of an appropriate age range, and looking at her "Chemistry result" seemed to be his kind of person.

So the Pudding Taster hit the "Contact now" and started the process of joining. Having already agreed to the Terms of Service (!), the Pudding Taster is suddenly halted by this:

You are attempting to signup from a country we currently do not accept signups from your current location. We only accept users from Canada, UK, US, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Spain, France, Italy and Germany

That's right, they don't allow members from the Netherlands.
Of course, the Pudding Taster could have used a proxy server to get around this... but it still means that every recent PoF member from the Netherlands is someone who knows how to use one, too. And the number of women on dating sites is small enough without limiting them to the geekier ones.

So... no Fish Pudding for today! Culinary speaking, that's probably just as well...

(Note: minor edits in article, on Feb 11, 17.24h)