International cuisine

I always thought that "international cuisine" meant that the dish came with chips.

We had 'international cuisine' tonight.  The takeaway pizza was great!  😀😀

David

Lancashire, really?🤔

BLACK PUDDING IS A BLOOD SAUSAGE
Black pudding has a interesting history all of its own, stretching back over thousands of years and many countries, but in Great Britain, the black pudding is an essential part of the English breakfast.

Black pudding is a kind of sausage, except that unlike normal sausages, you make it with blood. To make a black pudding, you cook blood mixed with a filler (oatmeal) until it is thick enough to congeal when cooled and because of this, black pudding is one of those things people either love or hate.

The very first time that the black pudding appeared in literature was in 800 BC, when black pudding was mentioned in Homer's classic saga 'The Odyssey'. Homer famously described the way people felt in that time about black puddings, when he famously wrote;

As when a man besides a great fire has filled a sausage with fat and blood and turns it this way and that and is very eager to get it quickly roasted.
Later on in the Odyssey, Homer had his champion Odysseus get into a fight for a prize of a stomach stuffed with pig blood and fat. Clearly Homer was a man who liked his black pudding.

Black pudding was not just food for the poor, it was also food fit for the nobility and the extravagant breakfast banquets held by King Henry VIII at Hampton Court notably included black pudding on the menu, perhaps because it was a favorite a King who was renowned for his love of food.

 800 BC Lancashire inventing Black Pudding😂😂😂

Listen Mr.Buckets - If my missus says it was born in Lancashire do you really think that I am going to sacrifice myself on the altar of truth? I don't really care who invented it, it could have been Vlad the Impaler for all I care just as long as he came from Lancashire.

Fair point WN, after extensive research I found this(below). Mrs WN certainly knows Her History👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊

In England,  Black pudding may have been first cooked in the North of England.    But the best Black pudding in the whole of the  UK, is most definitely produced in the Scottish Orkney Islands.  Absolutely Superb.  

K 

❤️❤️❤️ (Mrs.WN)

Parmo, that quintessential dish from Middlesborough. Can't get more British than that surely! 😉