h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

oh and by the way what exactly is spotted dick? perhaps i am a bit daft, but here in the states i believe one would see a doctor not a chef. also note that had i said such a thing in the presence of others i may have been given a right big slap. not a good thing i think.

I don't think anyone's put in a good word for treacle pudding yet - and in fact all those steamed spongey puddings, with custard, are heaven-on-a-spoon.
About black pudding - my father used to eat it every day, grilled, for breakfast, to combat anaemia. As soon as the anaemia went away, he became a vegetarian. I'm not surprised.

Banana custard - Now there's a pudding!

Sliced or whole, mashed in with spuds, fried, boiled, grilled, poached or raw - it's all a matter of taste IMHO. But...
Bury (Lancashire) is the place generally recognised as the home of the best and truest Black Puddings - in Britain, if not the world, and the best place to buy them at their freshest and most authentic is of course Bury Market.
In the Bury area, another style of presenting the Black Pudding is favoured (at least once a year) when the annual Black Pudding Throwing Contest is held at a pub whose name I can't remember atm (help anybody?) The aim is to hurl a BP as far as possible, and the winner becomes Champion Pudding Thrower for the year and receives (IIRC) a barrel of local ale for his/her prize.
I feel I ought to point out to fellow researchers with delicate sensitivities about these things that the puddings are cooked but not consumed before being aimed on their trajectory towards the cosmos.
Does anyone know of a pudding having escaped earth orbit?

no. sorry. although if ones does try, you'll be the first i tell.

I feel a sense of deep sorrow and humiliation over this... but for the first fourteen-odd years of my life, I believed pudding to be nothing more than the runny stuff that you make out of the contents of little square Jell-o packages...

Then rice pudding was thrown at me, followed swiftly by bread pudding. A new world of puddingness was opened.

I suggest some sort of Pudding Program, possibly including required classes for K-8 students and National Pudding Awareness Month. Early education about puddings could save others from the shame I bear.

When finances improve, I will embark on post-graduate pudding study, trying the black, blood, and other delightful creations described elsewhere in this list. Until then, I remain -

A Pudding-Challenged Searcher

P.S. The newest revelation about pudding has been how odd the word looks when it is typed frequently enough.

Nobody has even MENTIONED white pudding yet. That's my fave and it beats black pudding hands down. Oatmeal and fat but very yummy and I suppose it must be a scottish thing. Anyone had those red puddings? Now they really are scary.