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Article: First vegetarian black pudding has Lancashire meat-lovers spluttering ; NEWS
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 17, 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 ...