Irish breakfast

[Page Stephens]

Neil,

Out of curiosity does black pudding have any relationship to the black
puddin which I used to eat when I lived in Trinidad?

The Trinidad version was a soft highly spiced encased blood sausage.

Page Stephens

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> We Brits, when holidaying [vacationing] in the UK, staying at hotels or
B&Bs
> [Bed & Breakfast establishments], often take the opportunity - not having
to
> cook it ourselves - of partaking of the 'Full English': sausage, egg,
bacon,
> mushrooms, grilled tomato, fried slice [of bread] and - if you're lucky -
> some local black pudding.
>
> So I was interested to see that our 'English' breakfast translates into
> 'Irish' breakfast across the pond:
>
> "You know what they've got here? You can get an Irish breakfast all day
> long."
> "What's that, a cigarette and a six-pack?"
> "Very funny. You must know what an Irish breakfast is, a sophisticated guy
> like yourself."
> I nodded. "It's the cardiac special, right? Bacon and eggs and sausage."
> "And grilled tomato."
> "Ah, health food."
> "And black pudding," he said, "which is hard to find. You know what you
> want? Because I'll have the Irish breakfast."
> -- Lawrence Block, 'All the Flowers are Dying', Orion, London, 2005, 2
>
> Neil Crawford