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Irish Breakfast: What the hell is that?

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:37 / 16.12.02

Part of my shop-assistant job includes manning the deli counter and making up rolls and stuff* for the punters. One of our top sellers is the breakfast roll: sausage, bacon, black pudding and white pudding. I know what's in the black pudding (blood and pearl-barley, for the most part) but what's in the white pudding? I'd never even heard of white pudding before. Is it really gross? Tell me it's really gross, go on.

*It was stressful at first, but I soon got the hang of it. Like Tom Cruise in Cocktail.**

**But with black pudding instead of gin. And a stupid hat.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:40 / 16.12.02

Black pudding is made with pork, pork blood, cereals and seasoning; white pudding is similar, but without the blood.

Eating the Irish way.

Mourne Kransky

21:42 / 16.12.02

It was a very common thing for starving poor people to eat in Irish history and was made from unwanted leftovers and ingredients not used for anything else, MC. In the Gaeltachd they would rinse out the bull's pizzle and stuff it full of the chaff they had separated from the wheat and the bollweevils and maggots which were found in stored grain. It is tasteless but full of texture and a treat with chips.

Goodness Gracious Meme

21:53 / 16.12.02

A proles' quorn then, yes?

Sounds perverted, Mordant, frankly.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

21:57 / 16.12.02

Starvation and bull's pizzles. I thought as much.

paw

23:07 / 16.12.02

ah black pudding, yum yum. ulster fry tomorrow me thinks

Brigade du jour

00:41 / 17.12.02

I had white pudding in Limerick once, and it's really nice. Couldn't eat it very often though - and not recommended for vegetarians.

But maybe it was the location more than anything - a small but perfectly formed dining room with far too many tables but somehow it didn't seem crowded ... big table all to myself because I was the only one staying there. On reflection they probably could have served up grilled leprechaun slices and I would have enjoyed it.

12:38 / 17.12.02

...and it's one of your top sellers, you say?

what an age we live in!

Mourne Kransky

12:50 / 17.12.02

I am impressed, incidentally, that a bun containing a fried breakfast is delicatessen material in Ireland. At work in Scotland you could nip down to the canteen for a bacon buttie on a cold winter morning but in London you have to make do with an olive ciabatta with a slice of brie and a grape or two in it. Poor, deprived, pretentious and health-obsessed fools!

Cherry Bomb

14:17 / 17.12.02

Hey, you can that at fried breakfast sandwich at Benjy's, my friend.

But you know, what London (and undoubtedly Ireland as well) really needs is a place that sells a decent breakfast burrito. And is handy to my workplace.

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