What's Your Favourite Pudding?

I couldn't agree more.

Indeed, the first known reference to black pudding came in Homer's Odyssey:

"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... ”

Lovely.
 
Originally posted by Bar the Bull@Feb 6 2007, 04:21 PM
"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... ”
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Are you quite sure he is alluding to food here?
 
He is talking about a man (Odysseus) tossing and turning in bed. He says that he turns in a similar fashion to the way that a sausage is turned over by a man who is dying to eat it.

So, no he is not talking about food, but he is using food as a simile.

And the food he used was a black pudding.
 
Well I'm sure AC will be bitterly disapointed that its not "Death by Chocolate" but chocolate & chestnut tart is by far the best :lol:
 
I've had to abandon the "What wrong with the forum thread" before I top myself with boredom. Can I take refuge?
 
I'm with you, Gearoid - I take one day off from here and when I look in, the peasants are revolting and now they want cake with it as well...
 
A really good home made Tiramisu with lashings of booze. None of the ingredients are to be scrimped on. Dinners are boring, pudding is by far the best bit.
 
Doesn't black pudding also contain barley? I'm sure there's some sort of grain in it to bind the blood and lumps of fat together. I like it well enough, but I'd far rather roll around in 50 gallons of thick chocolate mousse, just scooping it in with both hands. And without those ghastly bits of dessicated coconut, please.
 
I think Brian's using 'pudding' in the upper-class sense, bets, where any sweet dish served after the main course is 'pudding'.
 
Originally posted by krizon@Feb 6 2007, 07:50 PM
sweet dish served after the main course
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Would be an excellent definition of a dessert.

Pudding on the other hand implies something that has been mixed.
 
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