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OC [OC]Defending British Food

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 22d ago

Went to England over the summer. The food was not half bad. My personal favorite was the blood pudding from the full English breakfast.

Not only was that an amazing start to the day, but it also felt metal as fuck cause it was blood pudding

Also loved the meat pies. 10/10 meal. Could eat all day

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u/PatchyWhiskers 22d ago

Blood pudding sounds terrifying.

It is a sausage.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 22d ago

Correct! For those that don't know blood pudding is a traditional type of blood sausage made by cooking animal blood with filler grains and fat until it congeals

It's actually REALLY good

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u/The_Flurr 22d ago

We usually call it black pudding.

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u/Mr_SunnyBones 22d ago

Yup ..in Ireland we have black pudding , and a bloodless version called 'white pudding' ...both great.

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u/Usernameoverloaded 22d ago

Don’t do black, but love Irish white pudding

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u/Silly_Percentage3446 21d ago

I need to try white pudding now, although I've never seen it in England so I don't know how I'll get it. Maybe I'll see if I can make it.

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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 22d ago

I saw that as well but blood pudding sounded so metal I loved it

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u/UltimateBarricade 21d ago

In argentina is called morcilla, is quite common there

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u/FalconWraith 21d ago

When I read "blood pudding" I usually think of pig blood curd, a Chinese food that is literally just coagulated pigs blood. It's pretty good.

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u/Ancient_Kaa 21d ago

That is basically what black pudding is too

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u/JDJ714 22d ago

We call it black pudding over here, but yeah its pretty slammin. Would also recommend anyone going to the UK try a good cornish pasty too

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u/Fun_Journalist4199 22d ago

I’m from Michigan and pasty’s were brought over here as a mining food for the copper mines back in ye olden days. You can still get them at any tourist-centric store and I fucking love them

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u/Dadskander 21d ago

Wait THAT'S where those came from? Absolutely love a good pasty when I visit the UP.

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u/Fun_Journalist4199 21d ago

Yeah! It was originally a UK food for miners afaik

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u/Dadskander 21d ago

I knew the story for miners, could make it piping hot in the morning and it'd still be warm for lunch. I've tested this in the fall attending LSPR and I can attest to them staying toasty for a long ass time.

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u/Fun_Journalist4199 21d ago

And they’re just so good, like kind of in a bland way but I love them

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u/UnusualFruitHammock 21d ago

I live in Chicago now and they sell for $18 in a "British pub" fecking criminal

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u/PotentialConcert6249 22d ago

Gonna use this for a dnd monster

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u/theoriginal_tay 22d ago

Maybe it’s my anemic af body but black pudding is sooooo good 😋

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u/KartveliaEU4 22d ago

I wish I still had it in the US, it was my favorite thing there.

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u/ExistentialScream 21d ago

It's also quite heavily spiced, but you wouldn’t know since people think Brits are allergic to spices.

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u/PseudobrilliantGuy 22d ago

It is good, but it's also a strongly-flavored food best paired with other foods (like baked beans; the proper British type, mind), and I swear there was a slight metallic aftertaste to it.

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u/Flyinmanm 22d ago

Well yeah. There's iron in blood.

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u/PseudobrilliantGuy 22d ago edited 21d ago

There is, but I didn't expect the heme groups to denature enough to release their iron (or, at least, make it that much easier to detect).

Addendum: Then again, I'm being stupid. Of course the iron atoms are fairly external to the heme groups, because that's how oxygen gets bound to hemoglobin in the first place.

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u/MSweeny81 22d ago

strongly-flavored food best paired with other foods

Scallops are a great accompaniment to black pudding.

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u/PseudobrilliantGuy 21d ago

I'll keep that in mind if I ever get black pudding again (though between import prices and just the price of seafood in general in the Midwest US, that may be quite a while).

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u/Exciting_Policy8203 22d ago

Neat, no thank you