By 'Eck Black Pudding is a superfood

[Bad Dog]

FOR many it is the staple element which completes the perfect fry up breakfast.

So how has the humble black pudding been named as one of this year's superfoods?

It takes pride of place on the list featuring the top healthy foods for 2016 along with black beans, seaweed, avocado oil, mushrooms and black rice.

http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/14188507.Now_there_s_a_good_reason_to_eat_black_pudding/

[T_i_B]

1. If there is one thing it always pays to ignore

It's articles in the press saying we should all eat something, or not eat something as it might give you cancer.

I'm quite partial to an occasional bit of black pudding, much as I'm quite particle to a number of offally things (I judge butchers by how they are with hearts) but I still think that the best way to get people to eat foods & drink you believe in is for said food & drink to just be very tasty

[LeftishBrit]

2. I tend to agree...

especially as what's good for you one week may be bad for you the next, and vice versa. There are some findings that are consistent, but the press is not usually the best place for finding them.

Black pudding may or may not be a superfood, but as I don't like it, I will continue not to eat it. When I was a kid, the best food was supposed to be liver, and like many other kids, I hated it and wouldn't eat it, however good for me it was supposed to be! On the other hand, I do like some foods in the good-for-you category, like broccoli and tomatoes.

My dad used to say, 'A little of what you fancy does you good' (I realize now that this originates from a Marie Lloyd song) and I still think that there's a lot of truth in it.

[T_i_B]

3. I used to hate veg like Broccoli

That changed when I discovered after leaving home that vegetables are actually really nice when not boiled to death!

About the only foods I dislike nowadays are tripe, whelks and courgettes. I also dislike things like Quorn burgers on principle. Vegetarian food can be truly superb without pretending to be meat.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. any article using the word 'superfood' is very suspect - probably based on a marketing release

Because 'superfood' doesn't have a fixed meaning.

All this article has is a passive "has been named", twice, without any indication who 'named' it. But a lot of quotes from the black pudding company, and handy links to their website, so I suspect it's an industry PR group who named it, and the county-proud Bolton News is playing along.

[TexasProgresive]

5. Right and the uper super black pudding is.....

Clonakilty Black Pudding- I wish I was in Clon having a breakfast fryup and I would even eat the black pudding (i don't care for it but it would be worth it to be in West Cork!!!!)
http://www.clonakiltyblackpudding.ie/

[pennylane100]

6. When I was pregnant with my youngest child

I had a craving for black pudding. I also had bad morning sickness so it was the only think I could eat. I haven't had it in years, not sure where to buy it over here.

[Bad Dog]

7. I get mine from the meat van at the car boot sale.

He's very cheap, 3 for a fiver. I like the small puddings with small bits of fat, not the great big ones with big lumps.

Apparently the claims originated from a company called Muscle Food.

[truebrit71]

8. The Goodies!!!

Holy shit that takes me back....!!

[Bad Dog]

13. Big greasy lips,

Tastes a bit like fish 'n chips.

The only Goodies series they show on satellite TV is the last, and worst, one when they moved to ITV. The problem is they're too reflective of a time when the Black and White Minstrels Show was considered family entertainment. The episode on South Africa is a case in point, although staunchly anti apartheid and condemned by the South African embassy, there was too much black face and "Elloo Dere" for today's audience.

I'm not some Clarksonesque pc gone mad nut, but I do think it's a shame that such comedy classics can't be shown without an hour's worth of documentary that puts them into context.

[Ironing Man]

9. a correction...

sorry, can i just correct the article on one - perhaps the - critical point?

Black Pudding is not the 'staple which completes the perfect fry-up Breakfast', it is the staple around which any fry-up Breakfast is built.

thank you.

[Bad Dog]

10. Sorry mate, have to disagree

Bacon is the main ingredient, everything else is optional.

[Ironing Man]

11. hurrumph!

balls sir, balls!

Bacon is an entirely acceptable additional ingredient to a breakfast, indeed i enjoy bacon as much as the next man, some of my best friends etc.. but its just not as important as black pudding. sausage? yes, beans? yes, runny fried eggs? yes, tomatoes? yes, fried bread? yes, mushrooms? yes, hashbrowns or sauted potatoes? yes - and, of course, black puddding.

bacon? nah, if its good bacon its welcome, if its that nasty stuff that's 90% water and as thick as cling-film then its about as welcome as Ebola. hence its optional status, you'll note however that there is no such thing as nasty black pudding, its just black pudding - and compulsory.

[Bad Dog]

12. Nobody ever cited black pudding as proof of the existence of God.