Black or White pudding?

I like both, in fact they complement each other. I like to arrange them as alternate black and white slices in a sandwich.

Just thinking that black and white pudding slices look like draughts pieces and it would make for an interesting game if you used them as such. Every time you captured a piece/slice you could eat it and then the winner eats their remaining slices.

Itssoeasy wrote: »

It's not made using the small instetine. It's made using blood of an animal which is strained and cooked. The intestine is like a sausage skin around it. It's nice as I've had it several times. There's no scraping of faeces involved in drisheen.

You're thinking of tripe which is the stomach of an aminal which is boiled and cleaned.

its been about 30 yrs since i made pudding but back then the use of fresh blood was banned for the last couple of yrs I made them but maybe its been changed since then . Before it was banned production of pudding would have strictly revolved around the availability of fresh blood from the local slaughter yard. I can remember milk churns of warm blood being deliver just on time to add to the pudding mix , about 150lbs . If the timing was a bit off the blood would cool and clots would form so the blood would need to be strained . Every internal organ including stomach lining would be cooked and minced and then mixed with the blood , protein powder , meal , salt pepper , flavourings and some kind of binder can't remember the name. Been a long time so can't remember the exact proportions . It was all then put through a machine and filled into the small intestine and tied by hand into ''rings'' then recooked . Pigs hearts were very nice but the the other organs including the stomach lining were terrible
Incedentley '' skinless'' sausages were also pre cook and could be eaten from the packet
Tripe is the lining of the stomach , usually boiled in milk with onions . Drisheen although not popular in wexford also contains the stomach lining . In normal black pudding the tripe would all be minced with the other meat stuffs and you'd never know it was there , in drisheen there would be a higher proportion , it would be minced a bit more roughly and added to the mixer at a later date so it would be more prominent in the drisheen

Both.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts wrote: »

Neither.

Like, I’ll eat them. If somebody makes me breakfast and pudding features, I won’t turn my nose up. But I just don’t see the point of pudding.

You're well named!

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

But they use the small intestine as a lining yes? A sort of wrapper?

Well then how do they get the bloody shít off of it? That's what I want to know.

Yes as a skin around it. You implied last night that the instetine is part of the drisheen as in the filling of it when that's not it.

Anyway tripe and drisheen with white sauce, pepper, onions and potatoes is a amazing.

Is packet just another name for tripe ?

joeguevara wrote: »

As a kid (3-7) I used to always eat raw sausages on the sly. Absolutely adored them. Never got sick. Turns my stomach even thinking about doing it now.

Used to do the same with white pudding, and I was older than you. My friends still tease me about it but nobody died.

andekwarhola wrote: »

Used to do the same with white pudding, and I was older than you. My friends still tease me about it but nobody died.

Isn't pudding already cooked anyway ?

Itssoeasy wrote: »

Isn't pudding already cooked anyway ?

You'd think it was still alive the way my friends used to react.

I'm tempted to try raw sausage now actually.

Something ungodly about white pudding

its no odds, both give me heartburn.:mad:

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Oh, I see. No, i know it is just the lining, but I don't know if that makes drisheen any more agreeable than if the intestines were somehow minced into the rest of the product. You're eating an animal's duodenum.

How do they clean the intestines? It must be somebody's job to scrape, boil or otherwise wash the shít off of it?

That's fine, it's probably perfectly safe and maybe it even tastes good. But the manufacturing of pudding is a relatively clean and pleasant experience, that's all I'm trying to say.

its funny , when you explain to people that the pudding [the mass produced stuff] contains boiled internal organs it sounds disgusting where in actual fact the ingredients were always really fresh and the smell in the factory used to be great when the stuff was being boiled. there was of course a lot of the cheaper cuts of meat in their too . The intestines used to come to us pre washed from the slaughter yard but they smelled terrible , not a ''****ty'' smell but a sweet sickly smell we would soak them in salt water overnight and then run salt water through them as a final wash