LONDON (AFP) - A quiet corner of northern England was on Sunday playing host to one of the globe's least-known and most esoteric sporting events: the World Black Pudding Throwing Championship.
The venue for the competition, which attracts contestants from as far away as Australia, is the Royal Oak pub in the village of Ramsbottom, near Bury, Lancashire.
Competitors have to hurl their black puddings -- a sausage-like delicacy of cooked pigs' blood, fat and rusk set in a length of intestine -- at a wooden platform 20 feet (six metres) up on the pub's wall.
They have three throws in which to dislodge Yorkshire puddings, a baked concoction of milk, eggs and flour, from the platform.
It is believed the contest originated in the bitter rivalry between the neighbouring counties of Lancashire and Yorkshire.
In the 15th century, rival dynasties based in the counties fought a lengthy series of battles for control of the English throne, called the Wars of the Roses after the red and white flowers used as emblems by the two sides.
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...and decided to solve the war by throwing...black pudding..at...each other? 
All wars should be fought like that
World disputes would be over in minutes, cause alot less death, and afterwords, the victors could eat the ammunition.
All wars should be fought like that
World disputes would be over in minutes, cause alot less death, and afterwords, the victors could eat the ammunition.
Hmmm raw black pudding.
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| Hmmm raw black pudding. |
Is eating it raw the English way; or just your preference?
p.s. black pudding is this the same as blood sausage?
Black puddings...yuck...
That's all they're fit for. Chucking them at people you don't like.
That's all they're fit for. Chucking them at people you don't like.
Black puddings?
*retch*
Eurgh - like eating a scab really isn't it?
All this Black Pudding Chucking reminds me of The Goodies.................
Hammy x x x
*skips off singing "Goodies, goody-goody-yum-yum"*
*retch*
Eurgh - like eating a scab really isn't it?
All this Black Pudding Chucking reminds me of The Goodies.................
Hammy x x x
*skips off singing "Goodies, goody-goody-yum-yum"*
I assume I should keep my mouth closed during this war 
| QUOTE (dancin'hamster @ Oct 2 2003, 05:34 AM) |
| All this Black Pudding Chucking reminds me of The Goodies................. Hammy x x x *skips off singing "Goodies, goody-goody-yum-yum"* |
And having remembered that, I now feel very old.
| QUOTE (Cufflink @ Oct 2 2003, 06:13 AM) |
| And having remembered that, I now feel very old. |
Well, it is a VERY dim and distant memory for ME Cuffy
I was barely a child!Hammy x x x
| QUOTE (Cufflink @ Oct 2 2003, 06:13 AM) |
| And having remembered that, I now feel very old. |
But Cuffy,
Aren't puddings soft chewing for geezer's.....um....... I mean people such as yourself ?
| QUOTE (Althalus @ Sep 29 2003, 03:31 PM) |
| black puddings -- a sausage-like delicacy of cooked pigs' blood, fat and rusk set in a length of intestine |
What!?!?! I used to be given this when I was about 6 years old!!!
I never even questioned what was in it!
So I have been secretly been slipped Haggis and Black Pudding now! Right that's it, no meat again ever!
Oh, and can I add that is in my opinion a lame event! From as far as Australia!?
Hey hey hey hey HEY! No knocking haggis!
I ain't knocking it, but I'd prefered if I was told what it was, before eating it, so I could decide if I liked the idea or not. 
I've never eaten haggis or black pudding (I don't think I have, I'll check with my Mum), but I do have The Goodies on DVD.....its excellent, its even funnier than I remember it from when I was a wee dot. Definately rubber knickers stuff.
I like it either raw of fried, I don't mind it either way.
| QUOTE (sarkypi @ Oct 2 2003, 06:33 AM) |
But Cuffy, Aren't puddings soft chewing for geezer's.....um....... I mean people such as yourself ? |
I said I felt very old.
I didn't actually say I was old.
Now I just feel depressed.
Not nearly as depressed as me, mate. 
Wasn't that the episode that KILLED a viewer? I'm sure it is. Forget the killer joke, the guy had a heart attack watching this and his wife actually wrote to Bill Oddy & Co thanking them for making her husband's last moments so enjoyable.
BTW I love haggis.
Wasn't that the episode that KILLED a viewer? I'm sure it is. Forget the killer joke, the guy had a heart attack watching this and his wife actually wrote to Bill Oddy & Co thanking them for making her husband's last moments so enjoyable.
BTW I love haggis.
| QUOTE (Cufflink @ Oct 2 2003, 09:30 PM) | ||
I said I felt very old. I didn't actually say I was old. Now I just feel depressed. |
oops, my bad
btw nothing wrong with being seasoned Cuffy.
| QUOTE (sarkypi @ Oct 3 2003, 12:05 AM) |
btw nothing wrong with being seasoned Cuffy. |
Seasoned?
Can you be seasoned at my age?I'm positively boyish!
What the hell is it with your food over there? Jesus, pig's blood in a bag? Urk 
Sweet lord. But, in Oklahoma, we have an annual cow chip throwing contest, which is probably worse than throwing sausage, even if it is nasty, inedible sausage. I'd much rather huck sausage than cattle feces.
Sweet lord. But, in Oklahoma, we have an annual cow chip throwing contest, which is probably worse than throwing sausage, even if it is nasty, inedible sausage. I'd much rather huck sausage than cattle feces.
`Cow chip?'
Great phrase. We call them `cow pats.'
And yes, black puddings are gross.
And yes, I'd rather chuck them than pick up cow sh*te, too.
Great phrase. We call them `cow pats.'
And yes, black puddings are gross.
And yes, I'd rather chuck them than pick up cow sh*te, too.
Why can't they just toss dwarves like good god fearin' folk?
| QUOTE (snuffypuffer @ Oct 3 2003, 01:56 AM) |
| Why can't they just toss dwarves like good god fearin' folk? |
I get dibs on Emmanuel Lewis.
| QUOTE (snuffypuffer @ Oct 3 2003, 01:56 AM) |
| Why can't they just toss dwarves like good god fearin' folk? |
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Hammy x x x
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