Did you enjoy it?
Do you recommend it from a purely culinary perspective?
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Blood Sausage; Blood Pudding. Ever try them?
by Open mind 21 Replies latest jw friends
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Gregor
I have tried blood sausage. While I really like some strong organ flavors, like liver, I didn't like the strong iron flavor of the blood.
PS To be truthful, there is a "ick" factor, for me also. Plus, I don't want to lose my chance at everlasting life.
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miseryloveselders
I can't even get past the sound of it. I refuse. Maybe that's the JW side of me talking, I don't know. Watching Anthony Bourdain on No Reservations eat them, I just couldn't get past the thought of what they were. I usually love looking at what he's chomping on, and I'd love to hang out with him one day, but I have to pass on blood products. Uggk!
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I<3MYGod
It has nothing to do with the whole no blood brew-ha-ha....I just think it sounds nasty. So no, I haven't tried it nor do I think I ever will.
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mouthy
before I was a JW I used to eat both!!! Must confess stopped on the orders of the "evil slave"
Now I live alone & dont eat much ...I havent had it since they kicked me out. Only remembered this
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blondie
I grew up in Germany and had no desire to eat it...only old men ate it...bad breath...yuck.
It's right up there with menudo and headcheese.
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chickpea
in a chip shop in trafford (greater manchester, england)
full english brekkie.... once was enough for mebtw, it was called black pudding, not blood pudding
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Leolaia
Gross. I can't stand anything organy tasting. I'd rather eat a camel's hump.....which I have.
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doofdaddy
I have eaten it in Thailand. Once in the north (pig's organs and blood) rather tasty if you didn't think too much and once in the south in a soup. This was clotted balls. Not bad. Also on the menu was monkey and an endangered species, barking deer. The heading on the menu was "fruits of the forest".....
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Open mind
I don't know if it's my born-in JW upbringing or just my innate sensibilties but Gregor's words ring true with me:
To be truthful, there is a "ick" factor,
On one level this is irrational. I should probably cut down on my red meat intake, but I REALLY enjoy tucking into a really good, medium-rare "juicy" (translation: bloody) steak from time to time. But it doesn't "ick" me out in the least. However, talk about blood sausage or black pudding and I have NO desire whatsoever to partake. This makes no sense. But I don't see myself diving into a blood sausage anytime in the forseeable future.
FWIW, I love to indulge in buying a lottery ticket or saying "Have a nice Christmas" to a co-worker just to flip the bird to the Watchtower. But when it comes to eating blood, I thing I'll stay a good JW.
Blech.
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