Black Pudding

[RichardCranium]

the cow is shot in the back of the neck with a bolt gun, the exposed gap in the spine is used to insert the cane which is rammed down its spine, twisted a few times

That's interesting.

When I read up on the process a couple or so years ago (follow-up research to some graduate work I did in the 1980s on animal husbandry), I was under the impression that cattle were still 'stunned' (hit with either a penetrative or non-penetrating bolt gun) in the forehead, and that pithing (that business with the rod) had been banned about ten years ago.

[NickFitz]

Making black pudding:

[suityou01]

In related news Minestrone explains

Sex. is just the rubbing together of two bits of lubricated flesh that happen to be full of nerve endings that are connected to a 'pleaseure centre' in the brain. an orgasm can be triggered by putting a knitting needle in your ear and hotting the right spot. sex is just two bags of water that think they are sentient thinking they are having a good time. its baloney.

Spirituality. You think it's a nice sunset ? you think you are seeing a beautiful baby ? you are enjoying being in a cathedral , close to your God ? Actually , its just a bunch of reflected photons that are impinging on your eyeballs, being transmitted to your brain and triggereing an accidental phenomonen. its baloney.

Pooing. So you enjoyed that Sh1te did you ? its just a natural biological function that prevents you filling up and bursting. You might have thought it was better than sex, but as we know, thats baloney as well.


Art. its just airy fairy baloney.



etc

You need beer my friend. Dr Suity prescribes 4 cans of spesh and half a litre of brandy. Take the whole course.

[EternalOptimist]

You need beer my friend. Dr Suity prescribes 4 cans of spesh and half a litre of brandy. Take the whole course.

Do you have any idea where beer comes from?

those little innocent ear of grain are forced to stand in horse tulip for a year before they are chopped off at the knees, battered, crushed and then drowned. fermented brewed bottled and then drunk

something must be done

[suityou01]

Making black pudding:

Errrrrrrr I don't think that's quite production grade. But it does illustrate that it is pigs blood.

So, about this PSE outbreak

[RichardCranium]

Can't remember pigs having BSE or equivalent (Porcine spongiform encephalopathy?)

Please report back on the lesser known PSE outbreak which has caused these constraints.

Sadly, the government knee-jerked and brought in a bunch of irrelevant and unhelpful legislation. This includes making it nigh on impossible to give scrap food to pigs. IIRC, if you give BSE infected meat to pigs, you get perfectly safe bacon.

Anyways, consequences are more food waste going into landfill to become methane instead of it going into piggies to become tastier chops. Which also means that pork gets more expensive and farmers hav e to buy more animal feed for pigs, and because they want cheap animal feed, that animal feed contains Christ knows what ... which means that the legislation creates an opportunity for a pig-equivalent crisis like BSE. Probably being something like hormones or heavy metals in the cheap pig feed ending up in sausages.

That's what happens when you get panic in townie lawyer politicians who think they know better than scientists.

[suityou01]

Do you have any idea where beer comes from?

those little innocent ear of grain are forced to stand in horse tulip for a year before they are chopped off at the knees, battered, crushed and then drowned. fermented brewed bottled and then drunk

something must be done

Yep, it's the shopping fairies, God luvvem.

[suityou01]

Sadly, the government knee-jerked and brought in a bunch of irrelevant and unhelpful legislation. This includes making it nigh on impossible to give scrap food to pigs. IIRC, if you give BSE infected meat to pigs, you get perfectly safe bacon.

Anyways, consequences are more food waste going into landfill to become methane instead of it going into piggies to become tastier chops. Which also means that pork gets more expensive and farmers hav e to buy more animal feed for pigs, and because they want cheap animal feed, that animal feed contains Christ knows what ... which means that the legislation creates an opportunity for a pig-equivalent crisis like BSE. Probably being something like hormones or heavy metals in the cheap pig feed ending up in sausages.

That's what happens when you get panic in townie lawyer politicians who think they know better than scientists.

Yep, fine. But black pudding is made from pigs blood. Is this pelletised? If so it must be because of BSE as soupy said. But pigs don't get BSE.

Come on soupy, enlighten us.

[RichardCranium]

those little innocent ear of grain are forced to stand in horse tulip for a year before they are chopped off at the knees, battered, crushed and then drowned. fermented brewed bottled and then drunk

They are also roasted, malted, boiled, sieved and dumped.

Do you have any idea where beer comes from?

I know where it goes, and that's the important bit.

[minestrone]

Feck me, we have experts on butchery in the room, the niece of a butcher, someone who has read wikipedia.

All we need now is a butcher's neighbour and someone who ate a hotdog at the cinema tonight.