An American's observations about his visit to England go viral

[Calamity1971]

£3.50 a portion, what's in it, is definately not a meal.

 

[Celyn]

£3.50 a portion, what's in it, is definately not a meal.

Might be a lovely meal - just the fact that they so very wittily deflect the question of what is in it.

 

[Calamity1971]

I'm guessing the artificial substance is way more offending than dried pigs blood? It's packaged nice though

 

[fishfinger]

I see that they don't say what they make it from.

OK, I'd probably buy one to try it if I chanced across one, but that somewhat arch response is a bit off.

I found a list of ingredients here:

'Lancashire Black Puddings VPud Vegetarian Black Pudding' from The Natural Grocery Store in Cheltenham

Ingredients/More Details
Cooked Pearl Barley, Water, Rusk (Wheat Flour, Salt), Rolled Oats, Protein (Starch, Flour, Protein), Oatmeal, Rehydrated Onion, Salt, Non-hydrogenated Vegetable Suet (Palm Oil & Sunflower Oil with Wheat Flour), Barley Flour, Beetroot Powder, Herbs and Spices, Roast Barley Malt Extract, Natural Flavouring.

 

[Calamity1971]

Must be the beetroot powder that gives it the red dried blood look. Yum.

 

[fishfinger]

Must be the beetroot powder that gives it the red dried blood look. Yum.

That's what I thought too.

 

[Calamity1971]

I really don't understand the need for a synthetic black pudding. I'm also preoccupied with someone falling out of a hammock on the suicide thread. I should go to bed.

 

[danny la rouge]

Sorry but

Jimmy hill ref equals youth speak. :d

He said it to you! That's where I learned the saying!

This is like that time people kept moving the furniture when I left the room and acted like nothing was going on...

 

[prunus]

I found a list of ingredients here:

'Lancashire Black Puddings VPud Vegetarian Black Pudding' from The Natural Grocery Store in Cheltenham

I like the recursive protein, which is apparently made of starch, flour and protein.

 

[Sue]

It's only battered if served in chip shops. And that'd be in the East of Scotland.

But butchers sell them unbattered in my part of the country, for home consumption. Here is the trinity of puddings:

What about fruit pudding? Also just going to throw Lorne sausage into the sausage/pudding mix (so to speak)...

Lorne sausage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The saveloy is indeed a thing that's pretty standard in chippies down here. Always wondered what it was but, as a veggie, I've never tried it.

 

[danny la rouge]

What about fruit pudding? Also just going to throw Lorne sausage into the sausage/pudding mix (so to speak)...

Lorne sausage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The saveloy is indeed a thing that's pretty standard in chippies down here. Always wondered what it was but, as a veggie, I've never tried it.

Fruit pudding.

I like fried clootie dumpling with breakfast, too.

 

[gosub]

Misusing a knife and fork is the eighth and deadliest sin