General Chat

Sorry folks, have tried it but it's not for me!! I used to buy and cook it for my Hubby, as a true Yorkshireman he adored it. We both used to enjoy eating out with a full cooked breakfast, but cannot remember Black pudding being on the menu. Lynda

I had battered, deep-fried haggis from an Edinburgh chippy back in the 70s. I'll swear they had black pud as well!

We love our black pudding up here in Scotland and white or red pudding. White pudding is made from oatmeal and suet and 'other' bits and pieces. Not sure what's in red pudding. Andy Oop North....oatcakes are more like a biscuit/cracker type of thing that you would eat with cheese. And NO Geoff we don't cook everything deep fried in batter, but then again a deep fried cream egg mmmmm Chrsitne

Andy! You've just touched a soft spot, the digestive juices are running, black pudding... love it the wife wont touch it, mind you she is a southener, but I'd like to add another dish! TRIPE AND ONIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOOTIFUL... Len, a Manchester stray!!!!

Am a Northerner and love Blackpudding, our local pubs used to have it at the bar on a Sunday luch time to help yourself.

Hi Andy I've always assumed that black pudding is a northern thing, because in Devon, where I come from, we have the 'white pudding' you mentioned. I read all the replies and the only other person who mentioned it was Janet - yes, it's called Hogs Pudding. Apparently, as a child (and my stomach is turning over already at the memory!), my mum used to buy a piece from the butcher's and I'd sit in my pushchair eating it as we went along. If we ever had it at home, it was cut off in slices and eaten as it was, although I know people do fry it. I couldn't face it now, and I certainly couldn't face black pudding - it's the thought of the blood I think! Mandy :)

By the way,you are making me hungry!!

Hi Andy, Its not just a northern thing.I originally come from Northern Ireland and its a part of the great Ulster Fry there,bacon,eggs,sausage,tattie bread,soda bread,black and white pudding and the rest.The only difference with up north where I now live is that some people tend to eat it uncooked.Something which kinda turns me but each to their own!

Mmmmm black pudding - I love it! My friend has relatives in Ireland and when she goes over there she has white pudding. Jeanette

hi andy,must be a northern thing,we holiday in tenerife and visit a few English run and owned cafe/bars ,the people from north have blackpudding with their full english ,the ones from the south don't. Brenda

i love black pudding and all our family and allorr parents before us here in wales

I think Black pudding is more a northern thing, its nto as popular down here, although yeah you can find it if you look. I love it, but don't have it often as the wife grimmaces at the mere mention of it, so we never buy it. am salivating at the thought of a black pudding a bacon sarnie with brown sauce mmmm

Black pudding (and white pudding) is common in Ireland and Scotland. The Scots coat 'em in batter and deep fry 'em (well, they would wouldn't they?). "Boudin noir" is a French thing.

I also love Black Pudding - which by the way is nothing like Haggis at all. I first had it in Cornwall and they also had a white pudding aka Hogs Pudding. Never seen Hogs Pudding since I left Cornwall. My favourite breakfast in the Cornish days was all the usual with Black Pudding, Hogs Pudding and Ulster Fry. Those were the days Janet

I love black pudding and am originally from Manchester. There is a sandwich van that parks on the industrial estate where I work and my boss and I regularly have a sausage and black pudding bagette (has to have tomato ketchup on it too!!). Yummy, my mouth is watering just thinking about it. Mel

Isn't haggis more or less the same thing? In the Netherlands we also have a black sausage which is fried in thick slices with slices of apple and mashed potato.

HI I'VE HAD IT A FEW TIMES NEAR CANTERBURY IN A CAFE IT WAS ON THERE FRY UP. and when i went to scotland with ex hubby we had some there. i don't eat many fry ups now, on the dreaded diet sandra

My Mum likes Black Pudding, and she's from Devon!! I've never been brave enough to try it!!!!!

growing up,in south wales,black pudding was part of our staple diet...now living in south london,it still is,as my local butcher comes from yorkshire,and he proudly displays his pudding lol......bryan.

Are oatcakes like white pudding? I did have white pudding up in Scotland on one or two occasions and think that tasted of oatmeal.