Sadly I was too busy yesterday to make it up to Ramsbottom, a small town just north of Manchester, for the Annual World Black Pudding Throwing Championships. For readers of my ramblings who are not completely aware of some of the more unusual of British culinary delights, black pudding is a type of sausage made from congealed pigs’ blood with spices and lumps of fat, wrapped in a length of animal intestine.
- Congealed pigs’ blood with spices and lumps of fat.
As part of the heart attack enducing 'Full English Breakfast'.
According to my food correspondent, Arti Choke, the nearby town of Bury is famous for the production of black pudding, along with tripe (cow’s stomach) and elder (steamed cows’ udder).
Tripe - not unlike slightly soiled bathrobes (in look and taste).
The aim of the Black Pudding Throwing Championships is to throw a black pudding that has been wrapped in a pair of ladies tights at a pile of Yorkshire puddings sat on a plinth 20 feet up a tower. Whoever knocks down the most Yorkshire puddings wins.
For readers of my ramblings who are not completely aware, Yorkshire puddings are like curled up pancakes, one of the two main constituents of toad-in-the-hole.
If you want to know about toad-in-the-hole, read my blog dated…
Not exactly an Olympic event but it keeps the locals happy.
Toad-in-the-hole.
September 14, 2009 at 2:51 pm |
Wow! I just HAD to visit your page before breakfast. Ha! Thank You.
May All Beings Be Happy.
September 14, 2009 at 5:11 pm |
We don’t all eat like that!
(Other British delights include Scotland’s haggis made from a variety of ingredients including sheep’s stomach, lamb heart and lungs. Mmm)
September 15, 2009 at 10:08 am |
Haggis – now that’s another story; and of course the Scots like to finish off the meal with a deep-fried Mars Bar.
September 14, 2009 at 8:22 pm |
My mouth is watering…
September 14, 2009 at 8:22 pm |
There’s probably a good reason why the world’s best chefs are French. I just can’t think of it right now.
September 15, 2009 at 10:07 am |
I thought the world’s best chefs work for Pizza Hut. You can’t beat the deep pan seafood stuffed-crust…
September 14, 2009 at 10:10 pm |
THis is too healthy for me. I ought to try one of these the day I start on a diet…
Now I’m hungry.
September 15, 2009 at 4:12 am |
I love to read about food and the British. This was GREAT. I will have to visit one day.
September 15, 2009 at 10:34 am |
If you do, bring a packed lunch.
September 15, 2009 at 8:00 am |
That is the way to beat America’s fat people!
September 15, 2009 at 8:43 am |
I wish people would stop budding in to other countries business. You don’t like it stay away! No one is forcing you to come here or eat anything you don’t like. I didn’t see that many healthy or lean people in that wonderful USA. You are all fat and gross, flob jiggling every where and worst yet, you make people believe that they can be beautiful fat, “love your self” BLAH! Keep your opinions to your selves and your nationalized health system ideas in your own country, you people need it more. LMAO.
September 15, 2009 at 10:43 am |
I feel you have a few issues. Relax.
September 15, 2009 at 1:38 pm |
I am 6′5″ Dubliner living in the US for the last 12 years and boy do I miss “da black puddin”
My father in law , living in Kildare , sends us a Bewleys hamper every Xmass and I get all of the puddin’ for myself as the kids hate the stuff
I am not too fond of Haggis !!!
donal
September 15, 2009 at 1:55 pm |
Ill bet i would lose weight if i was in England very long.I guess thats why a lot of them come here for health care.And Carmens right,we are a bunch of over weight people that is bad about wanting to judge other people when we have enough on our plates to keep us busy.