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Drove up to Preston on Saturday,a flying two- hour visit with my son,an eight-hour round trip!Worth it,though, a good chat with him and a visit to the market and bought proper-job Black Puddings.No-one in my neck of the woods makes their own now and the commercial stuff just isn"t the same,stocked up for a while and will savour every mouthful.

I like the stuff and find Morrison's quite decent

Ay by gum lad, it does yee good.

Spoken like a true southerner!

If the Queen was lucky enough to have been born Up North she would say

'Eeeeeeeeeeeee ba gum lad, it does thee good'

Dear Toffeeman, thanks for the correction, but i did know it was coming, i just wasn't sure who from.

Take my flat cap off, it was a good effort and as I've been down south for 26 years I probably sound the same.

Poor Snooky

An eight hour round trip . We just cross the village street (20 yards each way) to the local butcher who stocks Bury black puddings (and white puddings). Or if we are in Anglesey we pop into Hootons at Brynsiencyn, who raise their own pigs and make black pudding on the premises.

Evening Alan,
Our local butcher used to make his own too,but apparently,there is a E.U.directive stating that if you do not live in a "traditional" black pudding producing area then you have to use blood substitute instead of whole blood.South Wales is not a "traditional"area so it seems
When I worked in Heywood the last call on a Friday afternoon,before going home for the weekend,was to Bury market to buy black puddings to go with the bacon,egg,fried slice etc for my Saturday teatime meal.I do envy the fact that you are able pop along to your local butcher and buy them,they too are good eating.Bloody E.U.killjoys have taken away alot of which we used to take as granted.

I used to love black pudding until I found out what it was made of! I haven't been able to eat it since. By the way folks, I love these animated emoticons you're using! Where do you get them?? Mind, I still haven't managed to get my avatar sorted yet. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Cheers.

Elaine

Go to somewhere like freesmileys and grab a smiley

My husband spent part of his early childhood in Manchester and is still a great fan of 'proper' black puddings (and tripe - heaven help us!) which he can seldom obtain in our neck of the woods. On the rare occasions we visit a market or somewhere that produces the real thing, we return home heavily laden. Does anybody know a supplier who sells the genuine article over the internet? That might solve the homesickness problem for all the black pudding exiles? I occasionally come across a long forgotten portion in the freezer. Are you supposed to freeze them and does it affect the quality? (You can tell from my questions that I'm not a fan, although I do enjoy haggis).

Welcome to the Bury Black Pudding Company

Can't help with the tripe you'll be pleased to know

I then suspect that my local butcher and abattoir who also raises his own pork and makes the most fabulous Black Puddings is outside the law. He also makes the most fabulous Faggots and his Pork Pies the same.
We certainly do not live 'op north' but am nearer Snooky as I am to say Manchester. EU or not these are the real McCoy.
A strange thing is that the owners of Racing Camels feed them with Black Puddings to give them a bit of 'get-up-and-go'. Sadly they don't seem to work on me!
A fry-up is not complete without Black Pudding!
Am restricted to one fry-up a month! But what a fry-up!
JB.

Johnboy wrote:A strange thing is that the owners of Racing Camels feed them with Black Puddings to give them a bit of 'get-up-and-go'. Sadly they don't seem to work on me!
JB.

Hi Johnboy

That must give you the hump

Thanks for the black pudding link Alan. Am sure my husband will be investigating that one. I read the customer feedback on their site and one of them who was a blood donor was claiming that it boosted his energy as donating regularly was a very draining process.
When I was a kid I remember that doctors always used to recommend Guinness or Mackerson's stout as a good cure for anaemia. Just think what a plate of black pudding and a pint of Guinness would do for the nation's collective energy. Might prove cheaper for the NHS drug bills in the long run.