but you should check out some asian recipes - i once went with my mum to the market and nearly died cos she had the butchers running from goat carcass to goat carcass chopping their balls off… i did not have dinner that night!
once i went to my granparents house and they served every damn innard there was in the cow in one dish. i don’t think i made it to the loo beofre i puked.
…then there were the eyeballs i was offered…
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Scene from Frasier
Daphne: In England we don’t have guns.
Frasier: You don’t need them, you’ve got kidney pie.
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Black pudding is the food of the Gods. The gourmet version (examples in Ireland are Cloyne or Clonakilty black pudding)appears on the menus of upmarket restaurants, served with things like stewed apple or onion marmalade.
Mainly though, it is an essential element of the humble fry-up or full Irish Breakfast, along with other delights such as rashers, sausage, fried eggs, fried tomatoes, white pudding and about eight varieties of bread and toast. I used to prefer white pudding but I have since been seduced by the dark side.
Yes; Judaism and some sects of Christianity for starters; I would have thought Muslims too, but that is only a guess.
Hey, we Swedes eat it as well and we call it blodpudding. Although it was more popular when I grew up than it is today. Link.
Among the ingredients are: Water, Flour, Tallow, Blood Powder (beef and swine), sugar, fat, salt, spices, lard protein, potato fibers. Now doesn´t that sound tasty?
I haven´t eaten any the last 15 years but I remember liking it as a child. In Sweden it is normally served together with Lingonberries.
Another common statement that is wrong. Well, I’m not saying that kidney pie doesn’t exist, but I’ve never seen it. We do have steak and kidney pie (and pudding), which is presumably the source of the error. And very nice it is too.
kidney PUDDING? as in a dessert… barf bag, please!
speaking of which…are there any desserts with blood? or meat or fish for that matter?
Steak and kidney pudding. No, it is not a dessert. Rather than being in a crisp pie shell, it is encased in a soft suet-based (I think) outer wrapping.
Something of a hi-jack, but Americans seem to be very sensitive about what they eat. They seem to regard a lot of food eaten in other countries as being gross, but I’ve never come across any relatively common American dish that I would regard as gross. Some of it is nasty (catfish, grits, okra), but not gross.
‘Pudding’ is an olde englishe term that seems to mean “cohesive cooked object” - it doesn’t necessarily indicate sweetness. Steak & kidney pudding is a pie, and black pudding is a sausage.
“but I’ve never come across any relatively common American dish that I would regard as gross”
ummm… corn dogs? oysters from their shell( ok not sure if its american, but just cos it doesn’t have eyes that are begging you NOT to eat it alive…)
i am sure i can come up with more… give me time
Nope, not gross. Oysters from the shell are eaten all over the world.
People turn their nose up at black pudding and then happily will eat a very rare steak. I would rather eat something that has been cooked properly , such as black pudding , then ( practically ) raw meat.
right… and it looks like most of europe is knocking back the black pudding/pie/sausage… it’s still gross!!
Blood sausage, at least what I am used to, never has bread or oatmeal in it. Here is my basic recipe that I grew up with.
5 lbs ground pork skin
2 minced white onions
2 quarts blood (preferably pork but beef will do)
Various spices to taste (salt, pepper, garlic, cloves, allspice, caraway, etc)
Boil pork skin until tender. Drain and mix with onions, blood and spices. Stuff into casings and boil for 20 minutes. Hang up and let dry.
Ground pork or beef works too, but the pork skins are better for some reason. Can also mix rice into the mix for a boudin.
Morcilla! Yummy! It has rice instead of oatmeal, and can be quite spicy…mmm 
The boudin is a dish I like a lot. Apart from pork’s blood, the recipe include grounded pork meat, pieces of pork fat and spices (and no rice, oat, bread, etc…). IMO, the best kind of boudin include chesnuts too. But more commonly, onions are added. The boudin is usually served with sauteed apples. Yummmmm…
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There is no such thing as lingonberry in the English language, no matter how hard some Swedes, who are too lazy to use a dictionary, try to export it. The proper English name for vaccinium vitis-idaea is cowberry or mountain cranbery.
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Ah well. Black pudding is fairly popular in Belgium too, where it’s known as “bloedworst” (so 'blood sausage") or “beuling”. Once you get past the (admittedly gross) concept of eating solidified blood, it’s actually quite good.
I not too sure about the rest of the UK, but you can walk into any fish and chip shop in Scotland and buy a black pudding supper - a great big black pudding, covered in batter and deep fried, accompanied by chips and liberal qantities of salt and vinegar (if you’re on the west coast) or salt and brown sauce (of you’re on the east coast).
Although I’m more of a haggis man myself…