# Why do Americans call our Black Pudding "Blood Pie"?  And why the hostility towards

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 9, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-americans-call-our-black-pudding-blood-pie-and-why-the-hostility-towards/467254 "2008-10-09T23:49:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-americans-call-our-black-pudding-blood-pie-and-why-the-hostility-towards/467254/121 "2008-10-11T16:57:52Z")

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> [@chowder](#):
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> This makes absolutely no sense whatsover:confused:
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> What does it matter where they were invented?

Seems perfectly clear to me. I assume because that may explain why it’s part of the American-Chinese eating out experience and not the English-Chinese eating out experience. It’s an American tradition that just didn’t catch on abroad.

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-americans-call-our-black-pudding-blood-pie-and-why-the-hostility-towards/467254/122 "2008-10-11T18:02:17Z")

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My apologies to chowder and Lobsang. I should be more careful in posting. In any case, here’s the Wikipedia entry on fortune cookies:

> **[Fortune cookie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie)**
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> A fortune cookie is a crisp and sugary cookie wafer made from flour, sugar, vanilla, and sesame seed oil with a piece of paper inside, a "fortune", an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. The message inside may also include a Chinese phrase with translation and/or a list of lucky numbers used by some as lottery numbers. Fortune cookies are often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants in the United States, Canada, Australia, and other countries, but they are not Chinese in origin. The exact origin...

They were introduced in the U.S. in the early twentieth century. They are apparently vaguely similar to a certain kind of Japanese cookie.

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**Author:** ![slaphead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@slaphead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaphead)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-americans-call-our-black-pudding-blood-pie-and-why-the-hostility-towards/467254/123 "2008-10-11T18:49:14Z")

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> [@Tahssa](#):
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> I’m of the type where I’ll taste almost anything once.

Me too. However, if you ever find yourself in China and tempted by a dish called something like ‘Fish Maw and Sea Cucumber’, my advice would be to pass it in favour of something else.

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