[Moorf]

Since arriving I've been buying the Blackball Black Puds - they're lovely. However, I've found a better black pud and it's sold at the Oxford Butchery - apparently it's made by a Scots guy in the village. It's beautiful! (It's not on display, you have to ask him to get it from the freezer :nice1 ). Yummmmm!

Won't ever compare to the puds my Dad/Granddad used to get tho - from Bury I think...

[M-Squared]

I'm not alone in thinking black pudding is vile, am I?... In the US they call it "blood pudding" just to make it extra 'specially appealing. :D

Glad you like it though, Helen! :) :nice1

[Chiba]

Won't ever compare to the puds my Dad/Granddad used to get tho - from Bury I think...

From Bury Market (http://www.buryblackpuddings.co.uk) probably. Can't abide the things myself, but my Dad claims they're the best.

[Moorf]

I introduced 2 young kids to the joys of black pud last weekend - told them exactly what it was - and they woofed it down :D

Would LOVE to make my own but I just can't bring myself to having seen it being done... :o

[chocolate cake]

I love black pudding but haven't seen or more appropriately tasted any decent ones in Auckland

[IanW99]

I love black pudding but haven't seen or more appropriately tasted any decent ones in Auckland

Another Black Pudding (http://www.emigratenz.org/forum/showthread.php?t=14118) thread with some more advice on where to get decent black pudding from.

Ian

[cani]

This is something I've always missed here. I tell my Canadian friends about it (and variations) and the response is always yuck! I tell them they need to try it for themselves. My mother used to smuggle some back with her whenever she went back home for a visit. Happy to see it's available there.

[wwwdot]

In the US they call it "blood pudding" just to make it extra 'specially appealing.

In Finland we also call it blood pudding and I LOVE the stuff (have since a little kid). No I am not a vampire:p We also have black sausages and black pancakes. They are all quite easy to make if only one can buy blood from the supermarket or butchers. Available easily in NZ?!

[BaldyBeardyBloke]

Won't ever compare to the puds my Dad/Granddad used to get tho - from Bury I think...

Bury, the spiritual home of black pudding.

When football fans went through a faze of all having inflatable things to wave (started by Man City who had inflatable banana's) Bury had inflatable black puddings.

I love black pudding, but OH won't touch it. When living out of a hotel in Edinburgh for 4 months I had black pudding and haggis for breakfast almost every day.

Yum.

Granary toast with a thick black pudding slice on top, then a poached egg atop that. Sprig of parsley if you're looking to impress friends. Fab breakfast - or any other time of day for that matter.

Spectacular.

[KerryS]

Mmm black pudding with a seared scallop on top! Yum - I can't wait for Scallop Festival.

[Moorf]

:yes Oh a cooked brekkie isn't the same without black pud!!

I'm another scallop and black pud fan - great warm salad! Last night we stuffed chicken breasts with black pud and had on garlic mash with kumara croquettes *drool* - I'm having black pud and mushrooms on toast for lunch today :D *sharpens fangs*

[nippa&pippa]

What about the faggots? (meatballs made out of pork offal :o) has anyone seen one in NZ?

[Moorf]

Oh I love faggots! Haven't seen any, would they be rissoles here?

[nippa&pippa]

Oh I love faggots! Haven't seen any, would they be rissoles here?

nah :no as didn't taste the same. Why not ask your butcher about it? after all he does black pudding?