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Article: First vegetarian black pudding has Lancashire meat-lovers spluttering
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- Belfast Telegraph
- Article date:
- December 7, 2006
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Black pudding is about as carnivorous as it gets - fresh pig's
blood and ox intestines go into a Lancashire speciality which was
narrowly edged out by tripe and jellied eels in a recent survey of
the dishes which the British find least palatable.
But in an
attempt to overhaul the pudding's image, one of its most successful
producers has done the unthinkable - and produced a vegetarian
version. The Real Lancashire Black Pudding Company's decision has
been greeted by howls of protest in Bury, the home of the black
pudding. "What is the world coming to?" asked the local writer
Jonathan Schofield. "A black pudding without pig's blood? Big
wrong."
Customers seem to feel differently. First ...