Silly me, never having had one I've always assumed from the name that a black pudding was, you know, a pudding, but it turns out it's actually a sausage: "Black pudding, as made in the UK, is a blend of onions, pork fat, oatmeal, flavourings - and blood (usually from a pig). As long as animals have been slaughtered to provide food, blood sausages like black pudding have been in existence. Sources indicate that the corpulent sausage had its origins in ancient Greece, and Homer's Odyssey makes poetic reference to the roasting of a stomach stuffed with blood and fat."
Those of you who love black pudding but no longer eat meat can rejoice, as The Real Lancashire Black Pudding Co's recently developed V Pud, vegetarian black pudding that supposedly tastes close to the real thing. Not that there are many Filipino vegetarians, but I wonder if anyone can make a vegetarian dinuguan...
[via eachman.com]
