Is it true that you'd have to be barmy to visit England without trying black pudding?

Answer 1

In Ireland the best Black Pudding is made together with White Pudding Sausages and Rashers of Bacon, and not in England dont even try that stuff without trying ours. In around 1880 German Families came to Ireland and brought in the Technique of making Sausages and Black and White Pudding and Bacon Products Par Excellence, Names like Hafners, Rhinhards,Weirs,Olhausen, most of these Families have died out but the Tradition Lives on of making Delicious Food. So if you ever Visit the Emerald Isle do have a good Irish Fry up for Breakfast forget about that Nasty English Stuff LOL.

Answer 2

No, you don't have to be barmy. It's not for everyone, but when it's cook right i love munching abit!

If, on the offchance, your up near Northumberland go to a pub in longframlington (which is halfway between Rothbury and Alnwick) called The Anglers Arms, it's amazing, home cooked food....i am salivating thinking of it. Proper english grub and real ales too, it's not owned by a brewery so the landlord has total free reign, anyway i digress, i once had pork medallions stacked alternatively with slices of black pudding, with mash and a beautiful cream/cider sauce. mmmmmmm


here's a link to it, i cant see the pork on the menu, maybe it was a special, but it has other brit food on it to give u an idea of what to expect all over the uk
http://www.anglersarms.fsnet.co.uk/

i love food and british food is so good, make sure you go to a good country pub, somewhere else thats nice is the pub next to beatrix potters house in the lakes. To me there is nothing better than sitting at my mams house with the coal fire roaring, looking at the wind and rain outside and a homemade roast beef dinner making its way to me, with a big glass of wine......mmmmm cant wait til tomorrow!!

Answer 3

Black pudding would have to be the most vilest gourmet "treat" to try appart form sheeps eyes and goat testicles! Black pudding is a savour sausage type thing made of pigs blood, suet and oat meal and its vile. THey put this mixture of raw blood, suet and oat meal in a pigs intestine and boil it so it looks like a sausage then its cut up into rounds a fried and served with a fried up breakfast - yuck, yuck, yuck there are nicer things to try like their cheeses but blood pudding is awful.

Answer 4

Yes. I tried it all. Beef and kidney pie. English breakfast (w/ the black pudding). Fish n chips. Lamb. All I could get my hands on. Then at least you know. Did the same thing in France and Japan. W/ out the black pudding.

Answer 5

No, but it's like everything else food wise - if you don't try it - ya can't knock it.

To try Black Pud for the first time you need to go to a quality family butcher and buy the best.

Don't do the everyday Supermarket versions, they are disgusting cr@p. You would be better off eating the sh!t it's wrapped up in...!!!!

Answer 6

Yes it is true and it is also a legal requirement. If you leave here without trying it, I will behead you in the tower. Who wouldn't like to eat a pudding made of pure animal blood anyway?.....

Answer 7

No. Don't worry about it.

Black pudding is a northern dish. You may be expected to eat it in Yorkshire and the surrounding counties; but anywhere else, especially in the South of West, they won't expect you to eat it.

If you visit Scotland they won't force Haggis down your throat. The Welsh won't be offended if you don't eat Lava Bread.

Answer 8

It's a matter of taste. The main ingredients are pig's, lamb's or goose's blood and shredded suet. You decide on the level of barminess.

Answer 9

I should bloody coco.
It's a matter of opinion really, but I quite like it.
Bear in mind it's made of pig's blood and pepper, but YES, it's tasty.
There's also a non-British but popular takeaway dish, the Doner Kebab, which is worth a shufty too.

Answer 10

Well, I'm a Brit living in England, and I reckon anybody would be barmy to eat it.