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OC [OC]Defending British Food

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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/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 22d 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.