black pudding

noun

chiefly British

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The seasonal menu includes dishes like sea bream with lentil dahl, spinach and onion salad; confit duck leg with puy lentils, black pudding and apple or pork belly, with cannellini beans, chorizo and saffron aioli. Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026 Think the usual spread of pastries, juices, fruits, cereals and yogurts plus full English breakfasts featuring fat Kentish sausages, black pudding and yummy eggs and kippers. Ramsay Short, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2025 Fill up on a full Scottish breakfast—beans and black pudding included—at The Bothy. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025 Only black pudding, also known as blood sausage, is made with blood. Ron Hurtibise, Sun Sentinel, 19 July 2025 From here, a stroll into the New Town can lead to countless cocktails at Never Really Here, ale at Dirty Dick’s Pub or hearty dinners championing Scottish black pudding or ox cheek at Badger & Co. Lottie Gross, AFAR Media, 20 May 2025 The butcher gives him a couple of slices of black pudding—nothing fancy, a breakfast staple in Ireland—and O’Brien has a fake gastronomic fit. James Parker, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of black pudding was in the 15th century

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“Black pudding.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/black%20pudding. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.

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