Black Pudding.. I puked

I like the flavour of black pudding, but I can't think too hard about its ingredients while I eat it. 

Is Amish pudding anything like scrapple?

White pudding is similar to scrapple

White pudding is similar to scrapple

Not really.

White pudding doesn't even have meat in it does it?  I know it has fat but none I have ever had had meat.

So we stayed overnight in London since it was DF's Birthday and got a free breakfast with our room. We go downstairs and a nice buffet is set up with tons of food and drink. I'm in good spirits and happy to be here.

Gareth tells me "oh try this it's black pudding" then walks away from the table to get some eggs. I take a small bite, think it's gross, and when he gets back tell him I hated it. Then he goes on to tell me what it is. GREAT. I pretty much ran for the bathroom, puked up my breakfast, and felt ill all day. So much so I puked again two hours later just thinking about it.

I'm less then thrilled. Why oh why didn't anyone warn me what this was ahead of time?!?!?!
 

My first trip to the UK Dh & I spent a couple days in London we got breakfast with our room as well fortunately for me the hotel didn't have Black pudding but they these really nasty sausages though. When we got back to Dh's house BF at the time we had dinner then Dh said the next day he wanted to fix me a Traditional English breakfast but he didn't have the ingredients so he was going to stop off at the store on his way home from work an get what he needed. so I was left at the house watching TV so I was surfing seeing what was on so I saw this cooking show so I decided to watch that was good thing I did cause they were cooking Black Pudding an they said what it was when I heard what it was it nearly gagged me. so I called Dh at work an asked him what he was going to buy at the store an he told me so I told him to forget it I didn't want black pudding he asked me why an I told him about the cooking show an that I knew what it was an that I wouldn't be eating that period! to this day nearly 6 years later I have yet to try Black Pudding an I never will if I can help it.     

The story I was told about the history of black pudding (at least in Scotland) is that cattle drovers would carry sacks of oatmeal across the backs of their cattle when they took them (hundreds of miles) to market. One of the meal options they had was to let some blood from one of their cattle and mix with the oatmeal to produce a warm meal... This may be apocryphal, I don't know.

I've never actually liked black pudding but as I'm vegetarian it's now a long time since I've had it (probably when I was early teens, deep-fried from the Culter chippie was the last time!)

At least I am aware of what I am eating instead of having it hidden under the label "pork products" or "meat products".  

I have to admit to being a bit squeamish about black pudding and on this occasion would think ignorance is bliss.

It reminds me too much of the maasai with their tub of congealed blood baking in the african sun. I saw it and didn't want to eat that either.

For me, black pudding and haggis are in the same category. I've tried them both, and while and I didn't hate the taste, I didn't like it enough to actively want to eat it. If I really liked them, I would probably get over it, but I don't, so I just don't bother eating them.

It reminds me too much of the maasai with their tub of congealed blood baking in the african sun. I saw it and didn't want to eat that either.

I remember learning about that!  Wasn't it blood and goat's milk which was then put into a hole dug in the sand.  It would bake and then when the Massai returned to that spot, they'd have a tasty snack...

I remember learning about that!  Wasn't it blood and goat's milk which was then put into a hole dug in the sand.  It would bake and then when the Massai returned to that spot, they'd have a tasty snack...

Sometimes they add milk, sometimes they don't.

There was a quote on QI recently that made me laugh. They were talking about how the Maasai can get the blood without killing the cow and someone commented how how they think the cow is a 2 drink animal.

Sometimes they add milk, sometimes they don't.

There was a quote on QI recently that made me laugh. They were talking about how the Maasai can get the blood without killing the cow and someone commented how how they think the cow is a 2 drink animal.

I saw that, too!