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[andrew_jorgensen]

Let me take this opportunity to thank everyone for your warm birthday wishes. They were much appreciated. I, on the other hand, skipped the pleasantries and just tried to buy my own affection with a book run, getting Redmond O'Hanlon's Trawler, In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs by Christopher de Bellaigue, and Lawrence Block's new Matthew Scudder novel, All the Flowers Are Dying. I've read only the first chapter of the latter so far, but I liked this bit from page five:

"This is the best, this black pudding. There aren't many places you can get it. I suppose the old Irish neighborhoods, Woodside, Fordham Road, but who's got the time to chase out there?"

"Well, now that you're retired."

"Yeah, I can spend a day looking for black pudding."

"You wouldn't have to go that far," I said. "Any bodega can sell you all you want."

"You're kidding. Black pudding?"

"They call it morcilla, but it's the same thing."

"What is it, Puerto Rican? I bet it's spicier."

"Spicier than Irish cuisine? Gee, do you suppose that's possible? But it's pretty much the same thing. You can call it morcilla or black pudding, but either way you've got sausage made from pig's blood."

"Jesus!"

"What's the matter?"

"Do you fucking mind? I'm eating."

"You didn't know what it was?"

"Of course I know, but that doesn't mean I want to fucking dwell on it."

Comments

[lynnmonster.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's a great exchange!

[timian.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday, d'H! I hope you have a great one. :)

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Ian!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Having made extensive study of blood sausages, I can definitively state that no known version of morcilla, good though many are, truly resembles a black pudding. My local Chilean butcher makes two fine versions of morcilla but for the true black pudding experience I would direct you to Clitheroe where a butcher in the High Street makes a black pudding as fine as any to be add on either side of the Irish sea.

[scrollgirl.livejournal.com]

First? Happy birthday! I hope it was a good day for you :)

Second? Ewww, blood pudding. There's a Chinese dessert that's equivalent to blood pudding that my parents enjoy. I can't quite get past the "blood" aspect to enjoy the pudding.

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

Thank you, Scroll. I'm with you on the blood pudding -- I don't care what's in it, I'm not getting past the name.

[wisewoman.livejournal.com]

Thank you for my laugh of the day! Sorry to be so late with the birthday wishes, but I'm in exile and have only limited internet access.

So, you wiley guy, you're an Aquarian like me...or rather, not anything like me. I'm turning in my astrology diploma and I'm going to become a mathematician or a, I don't know, some kind of rational, logical-type person.

:oP dub xoxoxoxo

[dherblay.livejournal.com]

No, thank you!

For you, I could be a Scorpio . . .

[wisewoman.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's so sweet! I've heard of people being willing to convert to another religion, but to another sign?

I'm touched.

;o)

[rebekahroxanna.livejournal.com]

You are so easy to please! Present still sitting in the back of the car. Will try to get it in the mail soon. Having a meltdown here. Please be patient.

On food. Blood pudding euw. I haven't gotten past the name either. But then again, there is nothing in the name haggis to put me off, but I can't imagine ever eating it. Or from your heritage, lukfish (or however you smell, oh spell it).