black pudding

English translation: if you like blood sausage

22:44 Nov 23, 2004

English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Art/Literary - Food & Drink

English term or phrase: black pudding

Is black pudding a likely menu item for a pique-nique?

Johanne Bouthillier KudoZ activity Questions: 15 (none open) Answers: 1816 Canada
Local time: 14:00

Selected answer:if you like blood sausage

Explanation:
and if you're from Britain or Ireland. Is pique-nique a fancy picnic?

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Note added at 5 mins (2004-11-23 22:49:51 GMT)
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Black Pudding, one of the great creations of civilised society, is essentially congealed pig\'s blood in a length of intestine. There are many variations; in England, the pudding is usually bound with rusk and has bits of fat in it. The French have their boudin noir with nowt but blood in the casing, the Germans blotwürst, the Spanish morcilla which is often bound with rice. Can there be a finer sight in a shop window than a freshly cooked black pudding, still steaming slightly, looking like... er... a slimy coil of warm intestine filled with congealed blood?
http://www.g4cio.demon.co.uk/bpudding/pudding.htm

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Note added at 6 mins (2004-11-23 22:50:33 GMT)
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the Germans have Blutwurst

Selected response from:

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 12:00

Grading comment

Thanks everyone. Although Konstantin has given the most direct answer, Kim's answer has elicited the most useful comments. Thanks again.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer

SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED

4 +8

if you like blood sausage

Kim Metzger

5 +5

see explanation

Aoife Kennedy

5 +3

no, it's part of a traditional english breakfast, not a picnic

Konstantin Kisin

Discussion entries: 5

Answers

1 min confidence:

peer agreement (net): +3

no, it's part of a traditional english breakfast, not a picnic

Explanation:
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Konstantin Kisin
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:00
Native speaker of:

English,

Russian

2 mins confidence:

peer agreement (net): +8

if you like blood sausage

Kim Metzger
Mexico
Local time: 12:00
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks everyone. Although Konstantin has given the most direct answer, Kim's answer has elicited the most useful comments. Thanks again.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)

agree

hookmv: nope, not picnic food... :-)

5 mins

-> Not for a fancy one, I dare say.

neutral

Refugio: We got picnic from the German (now picknick, i think) and they got it from the French pique-nique. A bon mot, indeed.//Sorry, Kim, just quoting the Random House Dictionary, but I do believe you.

5 mins

-> But we got it straight from the French, not the Germans, dear Ruth.

agree

Alison Schwitzgebel: delicious! but generally served fried for breakfast

23 mins

-> As good as haggis?

agree

KathyT: Gross in any language! But my grandfather would have happily eaten black pudding at a picnic or anywhere else, any time! Esp. in sandwiches.....YUK! Black pudding may very well have been a picnic food back in the 1890's.

1 hr

agree

Cilian O'Tuama: fried until the soft bits have dried, with a dollop of mustard, hmm

1 hr

-> In Düsseldorf, I ordered Flönz for lunch without knowing what it was - sure enough, it was Blutwurst.

agree

conejo: I have eaten it in Scotland but did not much care for it. Haggis tastes much better

3 hrs

agree

tappi_k: yeah, why not? hmmm now this is getting me look forward to going back home for Christmas...

4 hrs

neutral

Aoife Kennedy: Quite right that black pudding would not usually have a place in a picnic basket. However, the asker referred to "saucisson", not "boudin", so the issue here is more about the translation of saucisson as black pudding, which is incorrect.

12 hrs

-> The asker added that information much later.

agree

Orla Ryan: mmm Clonakilty black pudding, you cannot have a fried breakfast without it ;-)

12 hrs

agree

Java Cafe

18 hrs

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

see explanation

Explanation:
Black pudding is usually called "boudin" in French.
"Saucisson" would be fine in a french picnic basket, and is sometimes translated as "dried sausage", as in the following example from a prime supermarket chain in the UK:
... Provencal herbs and dotted with peppercorns, this traditional French dried sausage has been ... Uses: Use Saucisson Sec with herbs de Provence to add flavour to ...
www.waitrose.com/food_drink/recipes/ glossary/foodglossary/Sausages(readytoeat).asp - 42k

Aoife Kennedy
United Kingdom
Local time: 19:00
Native speaker of: English

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