Blood sausage

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Is it lawful according to the church to eat black pudding or so called blood sausage?

Im not sure about this as i know that Jesus permitted every kind of food but i think it was Paul who said that we should not eat blood for in it is the soul of all living things.

What is the church ruling about this?
 
I guess I don’t really have an answer to your question, I just don’t know why you would want to eat it…
 
anjoh66 said:
Hi

Is it lawful according to the church to eat black pudding or so called blood sausage?

Im not sure about this as i know that Jesus permitted every kind of food but i think it was Paul who said that we should not eat blood for in it is the soul of all living things.

What is the church ruling about this?
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I think St Paul’s comment was more in the context of offerings to idols which he mentions in the same passage (remember blood could be sacrificed as well as flesh) rather than prohibiting ALL blood.

Where would a literal reading leave those of us who enjoy our steaks on the ‘so rare they’re still mooing’ side, after all - plenty of blood in a rare steak, after all!
 
Our family has Italian and Portuguese ancestry. Both are very Catholic and both have their traditional blood sausage recipes.

I would certainly like to know if there is a prohibition!
 
Another_Mary said:
Our family has Italian and Portuguese ancestry. Both are very Catholic and both have their traditional blood sausage recipes.

I would certainly like to know if there is a prohibition!
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No there isn’t any prohibition. Blood sausage has a long history in Christian Europe, which it wouldn’t do if there were any prohibition on it.
 
LilyM said:
No there isn’t any prohibition. Blood sausage has a long history in Christian Europe, which it wouldn’t do if there were any prohibition on it.
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Some of the best blood sausage was even made in monasteries.
 
mercygate said:
Some of the best blood sausage was even made in monasteries.
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Being the sort of person who likes the occasional strange foodstuff (I really like liver and steak and kidney, and tripe depending on how it’s cooked and served, for example), I may have to try some.

I’ve seen it fried up with eggs at breakfast, a bit like you might have other breakfast sausages. I think it’d have to be well-cooked for me to try it though.
 
That’s it! I’m done reading this thread…it’s making me sick!:stretcher:
 
There are no prohibitions or condemnations concerning consuming blood from the Church.

I had this at an Irish Restaurant maybe…13 years ago? I liked it, it was actually one of the few edible things I could digest at that restaurant.
 
happymommy said:
I guess I don’t really have an answer to your question, I just don’t know why you would want to eat it…
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Based on my extensive knowledge of monastaries, which I gleaned from reading the book “The Name of The Rose”, the Church permits the making and eating of blood pudding. Maybe because it felt that no one would ever actually do it.
 
Valke2 said:
Based on my extensive knowledge of monastaries, which I gleaned from reading the book “The Name of The Rose”, the Church permits the making and eating of blood pudding. Maybe because it felt that no one would ever actually do it.
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:tsktsk: None for you, Valke2 – 50 pounds of pork snouts?
 
I used to eat it all the time when I was a kid – Mom fried it with onions and I loved it. We spoke French at home and it was always referred to as ‘boudin’. One day I overheard Mom talking to someone in English and she was talking about having blood pudding for supper. When I inquired I was told that blood pudding (or blood sausage) was ‘boudin’ and she explained how it was made. That was about 45 years ago and I haven’t had any since. Yet to this day I think I can remember the smell of it cooking and the taste.
 
Hi Anjoh,

The prohibition of Paul against blood, and any other mentioned in the New Testament, is an example of a “discipline” which is a rule established by the Church, but one which is specific to a time and can be changed later. It’s like fasting laws for Lent or whether Latin-rite priests can marry; they can be changed without affecting doctrine. When Paul was writing, he, as a bishop, felt that certain things were better prohibited to avoid scandal or perhaps tp prevent backsliding of new converts. Later, in Europe, these rules weren’t as important.

Gem
 
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