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boudin noir

English translation: blood sausage

17:36 Feb 27, 2002
French to English translations [Non-PRO]
Art/Literary - Cooking / Culinary / culinary
French term or phrase: boudin noir
i just need to know
damien hinch
English translation:blood sausage
Explanation:
blood sausage or black pudding (in Ireland). Pork gut stuffed with blood, spices and onion, rice or barley, usually.
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MJ Barber
Spain
Local time: 05:52
Grading comment
Thanks alot, you helped me pass a test.
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5 +16blood sausage
MJ Barber


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +16
blood sausage


Explanation:
blood sausage or black pudding (in Ireland). Pork gut stuffed with blood, spices and onion, rice or barley, usually.

MJ Barber
Spain
Local time: 05:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
Grading comment
Thanks alot, you helped me pass a test.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Carolin Dierksmeier
1 min
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agree  Erika Pavelka (X)
8 mins
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agree  Yana
12 mins
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agree  Marta Argat: Harraps gives blood sausage as an Americanism
17 mins
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agree  Attila Piróth: Could have been posted as French-English
22 mins
  -> I think they say boudin noir on posh menus ;¬)
agree  John Kinory (X): Black pudding is a perfectly good BRITISH term, possibly also used in Ireland but there's no need to restrict it as above. Other than that: yuk! :-)
28 mins
  -> sorry, wasn't sure what it was called in UK. And it's lovely.
agree  Alisu S-G: blood sausage here in the US
36 mins
  -> morcilla here in Spain
agree  Parrot
49 mins
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agree  LJC (X): British black pudding is awful and has lumps of fat in it. French boudin noir is much nicer.
1 hr
  -> well Irish black pudding is lovely, especially if it is from Clonakilty
agree  Nicola Da Si (X): Black pudding definately sounds less yuk than blood sausage,even if it's the same thing !
3 hrs
agree  Renata Costa (X): Ok. That's it.
7 hrs
agree  Lilla (X): I agree with y'all, but you should come to the French Ardennes to see some real "boudin noir" and above all Boudin blanc a l'oignon, I get the best butcher right in the same street where I live! :-)
1 day 9 hrs
agree  reliable
1 day 13 hrs
agree  mckinnc: but it's not correct to say black puddinng - it has oats in it unlike boudin noir
1 day 13 hrs
agree  Rishi Miranhshah
2 days 11 hrs
agree  Theresa Pisani Moniez: be it gross or not, it's correct ;)
4 days
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