Talk:Blood sausage

message: The section on "The Americas" includes this line: "In Colombia, it's either called morcilla or rellena, and is usually filled with rice and peas. Contrary to beliefs, this version is usually deep-fried, and though is quite a health risk, its taste is quite popular."
Similar to the discussion below about whether eating it uncooked is safe, does anyone actually have any citable source indicating health concerns about blood sausages/black puddings, raw or otherwise?  The "quite a health risk" seems at the least unsubstantiated, and if it is a routine health risk, this should certainly merit a section related to that... 
JoAnneThrax 20:05, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Health?

message: Some clever vandal changed "black pudding" to "african american pudding". See the history page for details. I just changed it back. Porkchopmcmoose 22:31, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: African American Pudding

message: Is it always mammal's blood? I know that the Polish use duck's blood in soup. Rmhermen 12:50, Sep 24, 2003 (UTC)
:Chicken and goose blood have also been used, but it seems that the use of anything other than pork or beef blood, and to a lesser extent sheep and goat, is pretty rare. Guess it should be mentioned, though. CyberMaus 15:10, 24 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  In Sweden, in particularly the northern parts where the salmon goes upstream to play, salmon blood has been a commonly used source. BP OMowe (talk) 19:57, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Always mammals? 

message: I don't think it's a good idea to have this. It refers to one particular brand of sausage (and it doesn't say where it comes from) and it's impossible to say that every blood sausage in the entire world will have values equivalent to the ones listed here.--Stella luna 21:05, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  nutritional info 

message: my fathers friend used to buy black pudding and just eat it uncooked, usually for breakfast when we went camping.. i always wondered is it okay to eat like this?!
:if it were totally uncooked it would splash all over the plate, boiling the sausage makes the blood turn into the dark solid goodness we all know, its quite safe to eat like this and I have on numerous occasions, I even used to know a pub that serverd it like this as finger food along with dripping on bread! Brilliant! Hairybiddy 22:00, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Calm down, German Blutwurst is either smoked, cooked, cured or thoroughly dried (or both) before going to consumers. I personally like Kartoffelwurst best - mixed with small potatoe pieces it has a slightly spicy but nice taste and contains not too much fat. Cow tongue as an ingredient might sound weird, but its one of the finest meats of Offal and goes well with different finer variations of Blutwurst. All sort of sausages liquify more or less when heated, except the driest sorts of salamy. BR --Polentario (talk) 23:53, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: eating it uncooked?

message: Are you serious? I really don't think this article needs a section about a fictional species from Dungeons and Dragons, unless anyone objects I'm removing it Onlynone 17:51, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest leaving it. I found this article for the first time while looking for information on D&D Black Puddings. Specifically, I had been playing NetHack and wanted to know why my character lost vegan status after eating the corpse of one such beastie, as the phrase "black pudding" to refer to the food is not common where I live in Texas. It was reassuring to note that the game term had indeed originated from the name of the food. 24.250.128.75 06:33, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I think its more like a giant amoeba (Hmmm...now I am curious to go look at that article).   The name is, I assume, a humorous allusion to the food.  House of Scandal 20:01, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dungeons and Dragons... come on

message: I've got a photo of one I grilled the other day, which you can help yourself to: 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/iantindale/315195672/
I've got others from the same time, with different rotated views, if you want. Ian Tindale 17:59, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photographs

message: I think Finnish blood pancakes should have their own article. They're the only blood food I can stand. Not that I think they're particularly yummy or anything, but as Finnish home food goes, they're alright. I tried some mustamakkara (blood sausage) in my civilian service training, and couldn't stand it. It was the only food in the entire training period I left uneaten. If it hadn't been free I'd have demanded my money back. JIP | Talk 19:16, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blood pancakes 

message: Black pudding should have an article of its own, not be redirected from "blood sausage", because black pudding is not a synonym or equivalent to blood sausage.
It is a very specific type of blood sausage with oatmeal, used in Ireland and Britain mostly. It is not a generic name for blood sausage, which is how most Americans know it, unless they are of Irish descent and refer to this specific Irish (and British) specialty.
When I search for "blood sausage", I should be redirected to a "blood sausage" web page, not to a "black pudding" web page. When I search for "black pudding", it should go to either the "black pudding" page about the Irish/British specialty if there is such a page, or if not, to the generic "blood sausage" page.
The current naming of the page is confusing and incorrect.
It is like having an article titled "Colcannon" but talking about mashed potatoes. Well, almost, I am bad at analogies, but I hope you see what I mean.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chimel31 (talk • contribs) 21:31, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black pudding is not the same as blood sausage 

message: I appreciated the fact that since SMBC implied that the black pudding page links to the sexual intercourse page, they have in fact made it so.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.253.241.238 (talk) 21:53, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 

message: Would be really cool if you could change that. I dunno how to do it. Shouldn´t it be in Eatern Europe or something?
80.217.76.16 (talk) 23:57, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved to own sub-section. RashersTierney (talk) 00:11, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Estonia is not part of Scandinavia

message: Why is dinuguan even mentioned here? The article is about blood sausage/pudding. The only similarity between dinuguan and blood sausage/pudding is that both dishes use blood. But it ends there. Dinuguan should be removed.
*You're right, dinuguan and betamax are neither sausage nor pudding. Have made appropriate edits. --06:49, 18 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dinuguan is NOT sausage or pudding 

message: "Black pudding is now part of the local cuisine of New Zealand"
As a New Zealander, I can honestly say "Black Pudding" is not a common thing here AT ALL.  It is definitely not "local cuisine".  Nobody I know has ever tried it, nobody talks about it, it is not mentioned in any popular media, it is never mentioned in regular conversation.  In fact, I (at 35 years old) only came to this page to investigate what it was after reading about it on XKCD.
"Citation needed"?  Some kind of reference, indicating that it's a common thing in society?  Or remove the line entirely?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 111.69.237.101 (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Zealand 

message: I'm rather wondering at the geographical divisions (specifically those listed under "The Americas").
1. There's no section for Canada, despite the fact that we do have blood sausages/black pudding here (the only reference to Canada is under Great Britain and Ireland).
2. What exactly is the definition being used for "Latin America"? Please clarify, because any definition I can think of (Central American countries, Central and South American countries where Spanish is the primary language, etc.) either some of the countries should be removed, or almost all the countries listed separately (save the US, Canada when it's added, and possibly some parts of the Caribbean) should be moved under there.
3. Um... Pananma, Colombia, Brazil, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mexico are not in Ecuador, and should not be listed under there. If you want to bundle together a bunch of countries, possibly identify them as "Central America" and "South America"? Don't put a bunch of them under the name of a country that they aren't. (Not to mention the fact that Mexico is in North America....)
Thanks. MiscGezork (talk) 02:55, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It evolved over time, through the actions of many different editors, and there's no particular rhyme or reason to it. "Regional variation"-style articles like this are often oddly organized. Feel free to rearrange/clean up. --Sneftel (talk) 23:16, 15 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question re Geographical Divisions 

message: A brief history of the two articles, as I understand it:
* 2003: Blood sausage created.
* 2003-2014: That article evolves into a discussion of blood sausage in general.
* 2006: Article moved to Black pudding on the grounds that "All the countries that eat it call it 'Black Pudding, which is false. At some point (apparently not recorded in the logs) it was moved back to Blood sausage, then to Black pudding again.
* 2006-2014: Flame wars over semantics. 
* 2014: Article moved back to Blood sausage and information specific to black pudding duplicated on a new article using the title Black pudding. I say "duplicated" rather than "split off" because the information is not removed from Blood sausage.
* 2014-present: Black pudding evolves into a discussion of blood sausage in general.
So it appears the editors of Black pudding haven't been able to find enough that's special about black pudding compared to other blood sausages to write an article on it without resorting to talk about other varieties of blood sausage, parochially lumping them all together as "black pudding". I think the evidence shows that a separate article is not warranted, and the title Black pudding should just redirect to the relevant section of Blood sausage. Hairy Dude (talk) 01:21, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: My point is that Black pudding is not an "excellent" article: it is ostensibly about black pudding, but it has devolved into a discussion of other types of blood sausage. Hairy Dude (talk) 18:42, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger with [[Black pudding]]