So, what's in "King(s) Rib"?

i ve got a hard time diggesting fried stuff

 

Not really, I just thought Black Pudding literally was like a black creamy pudding like over here in the States. Maybe I should have said only Black pudding, but then again, I've never heard of button mushrooms before. If I've eaten them before, I've always just called them sauteed Mushrooms.

 

Well, I can only say. You need to learn some worldly English then. Since there are heaps of difference between one word, and another when it comes to UK English, and then American English. So sit down, and read some more
Darn, my English knowledge is beginning to even surprice me.

 

WDK, your syntax has gotten a lot better too, kudos!

 

Well, you see my stresslevels haven´t been rising over a period of time, and since I know that stress destroys the process of learning. And have I told you , that some months ago I was in court about the whole death threats and so forth ? Well I testified and all that, so that part is out of the way. So maybe it is one of the reasons, why my syntax has gotten better.

 

I love black pudding. It is a sausage made from pigs blood and various spices and so on. Sounds disgusting, but it is very tasty. They don't sell it in the USA. In fact, they don't really sell good meat pies (nothing like the UK anyway, just chicken and vegetable), the sausages are crap, the bacon is only 'streaky bacon' (Canadian bacon is NOT the same as UK bacon either), no pork pies, no sausage rolls. Food here is good, especially when you eat out - far better than the UK on average. But supermarkets here are no where near as good as UK ones, nothing like Tesco or Sainsbury.

They have very odd ideas of what we eat in the UK. For Americans reading this, it is mostly the same. Just there are national dishes that you tend to read more about online because they are different and make for more interesting articles/shows.

I miss my English breakfasts and decent roast dinners. No where really serves either of those.

I feel your pain Yakumo. It is sometimes hard to be a Brit abroad. I'm sure it is the same for all people that live out of the country, food seems to be one of those creature comforts that tugs the heart strings the most.

Or maybe I am just a greedy bastard :lol:

 

*reminds Taucias of Greek tavernas *

 

Yeah, I loved Greek stuff for a while. But the funny thing is, the BEST greek food I every had was in my home town, in a small greek taverna there in England. The chief was a greek woman who did mainland greek cooking. There was a tomato based lamb stew she did that was out of this world. I never had anything like that in Greece.

One of the problems was that I lived in a touristy area on an Island, so the typical diet there was not really typical at all. Lots of fried stuff, octopus or squid, spanakopita, very fatty sausage (huge lumps of hard fat in them). They did some great things with fish though. Freshly caught sardines grilled over open flame with lemon and olive oil. Tiny 'fry' fish that you ate whole. And the laiki (farmer's market) every week with fresh feta. We'd buy 1KG blocks of the stuff and use it in everything we could. It was delicious and nothing like the salty crap you buy in supermarkets outside of greece. You could eat it like a slab of cake.

Also there was an amazing lamb dish which was basically lamb cubed, drizzeled with olive oil cooked inside a paper bag (actually made from baking paper) with feta inside. I forget the name now, but it was incredible. Lamb in greece is really very good.

 

You are talking about Kleftiko, the lamb dish, no??

 

Yes, Kleftiko. That is very popular in Crete. Well, Lamb in general is very popular, especially chops!

 

i had black pudding and blood sausage christmas 06... my ex's family was from england.

it was interesting...

 

As I said, it is an acquired taste, since if you don´t like it from the start. Then you are probably not going to like it at all.

 

I might like it, I like eating steaks that are cooked medium rare with a bit of blood in it. It makes it saltier, and actually is somewhat like a spice. I wouldn't know anywhere where I could get it from though.

 

never said it was bad. just interesting.

 

Blood sausage is sweet, or at least the Danish version is.

 

I LOVE medium rare steaks.

Black pudding is nothing like it however, because you ll have to cook it very well (until it gets really black). It has an irony-salty taste combined with spices and quite a delightful "fatty" taste.

I don't use any oil when I cook black pudding. I just heat up the pan and drop
em and when black on each side, I turn them around. They re greasy enough to get cooked in their own fat. (Cooked is much better than fried )

 

You don't need to cook it at all, you can eat it as it comes from the store. It tastes much better like that and does not taste of blood at all. You do get a slight irony taste I suppose but not bloodlike.

You should buy the deli counter kind, NOT the stuff from the chiller cabinet.

 

lol I noticed you put it as your signature...

 

I like it, when you fry it, and then you eat with sugar and cinnamon. And the next when it is cold, it taste smashing on rye bread