Altered Maps XIV: Cartographical Consistency

[Civ'ed]

Fried blood... What?

As a vampire you should take greater care of disguising your identity

Oh come on how bad can it be

 

[Borachio]

Thanks, for that, eh!

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Oh, please! It's black pudding.

And it's absolutely wonderful. Fried or boiled, and served with black pepper and vinegar.

 

[warpus]

I had Christmas "pudding" once. I've been told it's a British thing. It is not pudding. It's a cake with garbage in it.

I assume that black "pudding" is just as bad as Christmas "pudding", if not worse.

 

[Arakhor]

Black pudding has blood and cow's stomachs and all that sort of thing in it. Christmas pudding, on the other hand, is really not how you described.

 

[Borachio]

It's really hard to confuse the two. They are both black and they both include the word the pudding.

But there the similarity ends.

A black pudding is made when a pig is bleed out. And consists mainly of congealed pigs blood, with some bits of fat and other stuff, I forget what.

Christmas pudding is made from dried fruit, black treacle and suet (I think). And is served hot with a white brandy sauce, and a shiny silver sixpence hidden in the middle.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Oh come on how bad can it be

I can't say I have a weak stomach (for reference a flat mate once wondered why I hadn't died yet for my recklessness in eating food past its date), but if I consume even a little fresh blood it gets upset. So the idea of a blood soup is positively horrifying to me.

 

[warpus]

Christmas pudding is made from dried fruit, black treacle and suet (I think). And is served hot with a white brandy sauce, and a shiny silver sixpence hidden in the middle.

Yeah like I said - a cake with garbage in it.

This is pudding:

Spoiler :

But you should know that I am still a bit upset about the time someone asked me if I want "Christmas pudding" and I thought "Wow, I love christmas AND I love pudding, Christmas pudding is going to be amazing. I'll take it over the creme brulee, let's do it!" and then I got a little cake with garbage in it instead. 0 Christmas content and 0 Pudding content. Never again - no more British "pudding" for me.

 

[Kyriakos]

It's really hard to confuse the two. They are both black and they both include the word the pudding.

But there the similarity ends.

A black pudding is made when a pig is bleed out. And consists mainly of congealed pigs blood, with some bits of fat and other stuff, I forget what.

Christmas pudding is made from dried fruit, black treacle and suet (I think). And is served hot with a white brandy sauce, and a shiny silver sixpence hidden in the middle.

That sounds disgusting.
Worse even that the rest of the standard english uni dinner arrangement, including the 'i-can't-believe-it-is-termed-sausage'.

They did well to try to hide it here:

 

[Hakim]

In Sweden it's called 'Blodpudding' and I actually like it when I was kid. . But what are you supposed to eat it with? I sometimes got rice but that felt wrong.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Do you also import rotting shark?

 

[trader/warrior]

They mention lute-fish instead of the sheep heads?

Yeah, I mean sure it's a bit weird but it's hardly disgusting.

 

[Borachio]

That sounds disgusting.
Worse even that the rest of the standard english uni dinner arrangement, including the 'i-can't-believe-it-is-termed-sausage'.

They did well to try to hide it here:

Bar the fried egg, I'm having that! Mind your fingers! A couple of slices of toast, marmalade, and a cup of tea, and I'm fixed till lunch time.

Frankly, though, I don't trust sausages unless I know the supplier. They could contain literally anything.

 

[warpus]

Sausage pudding?

 

[really]

I worked for a summer in a butchers factory and used to make black pudding - £2.50 an hour in 1998. A minimum wage was introduced about a year and a half later of £4.40 per hour. It was hard work for little money. The black pudding was nice though.

 

[Hakim]

^Do you also import rotting shark?

Not sure what you're referring to here but blood pudding doesn't have a strong taste, the only would-be disgusting thing about it is the blood part.

 

[Borachio]

Yeah like I said - a cake with garbage in it.

This is pudding:

Spoiler :

But you should know that I am still a bit upset about the time someone asked me if I want "Christmas pudding" and I thought "Wow, I love christmas AND I love pudding, Christmas pudding is going to be amazing. I'll take it over the creme brulee, let's do it!" and then I got a little cake with garbage in it instead. 0 Christmas content and 0 Pudding content. Never again - no more British "pudding" for me.

It's never been my thing either. But then I'm quite unusual in not liking sweet puddings of any sort.

Yet British sweet puddings have quite a good reputation. Even the French seem impressed by them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatpicturegalleries/9213506/Famous-British-desserts-in-pictures.html?frame=2197445

 

[Arakhor]

I'm baffled by your (Warpus') extreme hostility towards Christmas pudding. I'm not a massive fan myself, but it's certainly not unpleasant. The brandy butter (which is basically butter, a lot of sugar and a drop of brandy essence) makes it all the better,

 

[Arwon]

Christmas pudding with the preserved fruit etc is pretty rank. The basic form of cakey saucey pudding is pretty great though - just better in butterscotch or chocolate flavour.

 

[warpus]

Yet British sweet puddings have quite a good reputation. Even the French seem impressed by them.

I'm willing to try anything, and I do like British.. something pudding? It looks like a bunch of dough/bread. It's like slightly sweet turkey stuffing or something.

Not sure why you'd want to call things like that "pudding", but I'm no grammar/language nazi. I'm just going to be more careful.

I'm baffled by your (Warpus') extreme hostility towards Christmas pudding. I'm not a massive fan myself, but it's certainly not unpleasant. The brandy butter (which is basically butter, a lot of sugar and a drop of brandy essence) makes it all the better,

Maybe you can't quite picture the scene, as it unfolded..

There I was, sitting at Christmas dinner with my coworkers, excited that two of my favourite things - Christmas and Pudding, were going to be merged in an unholy union and delivered to me, for consumption purposes.

I hate fruits and other sweet things baked into things, generally - it seems wrong to my spidey senses. There are exceptions, like apple pie, but it took me years to get used to that one.. Everything else is usually an abomination.

Especially something that I expected to be amazing. But instead of the look, texture, and taste of pudding that I expected, I got something that was.. well, baffling. and horrible. It's like ordering steak and getting goose pate dumplings or something. You know? Maybe they're good, but when you're expecting to get steak, and you hate meats inside of dumplings, then you're not going to have a good time.

Maybe if it was marketed to me as "Christmas Thing" I would have been more receptive (although I would have gone with the creme brulee instead)

 

[Arakhor]

You don't like sweet baked goods or cooked fruits and so on? Well, that would be a fairly big problem then. Do you dislike fruit cake as well? What about stewed fruit? Apple crumble?

When you say 'pudding', what do you mean?