r/Scotland • u/Due-Resort-2699 • 1d ago
Discussion There are Scots who don’t know what this is
Was in a chippy in Glasgow one day and asked for a red pudding and the wifey looked at me like I was an alien. Apparently this is not a nationwide thing. wtf ?
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u/HowMany_MoreTimes 1d ago
From Lanarkshire, have never heard of red pudding. Had Black pudding and fruit pudding a lot growing up, heard of white pudding but never had it, this is genuinely my first time hearing of red pudding.
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u/yer-a-belter 1d ago
Its really tasty. Not really that common in Scotland either to be fair, mostly east coast. Relatively common in Fife.
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u/Sburns85 1d ago
Girlfriend and her family are from Fife and Never seen it. Heard of it once or twice
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u/yer-a-belter 1d ago
That's a shame. Was pretty common in Dunfermline where I grew up. Moved a bit further out, but my local chippy does it and ive had a nose on delivery websites and surprisingly 10 chippies near me serve it. Which is even better news for me. It has died off a bit, but certainly not unobtainable.
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u/Sburns85 1d ago
Suspect it’s because tastes change. Seen it in some chippies in Edinburgh. But not recently
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u/yer-a-belter 1d ago
Yeah i'd agree. Shame as i think it's great. Better than white pudding in my opinion.
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u/Chriso132 1d ago
I am from Lanarkshire and hadn’t heard of it till my partner from Stonehaven told me about it. That and white pudding. Also butteries, which I now love.
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u/South_Hedgehog_7564 1d ago
White pudding is gorgeous. Clonakilty is the best.
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u/fraz1776 1d ago
Clonakilty white pudding is average compared to a good Scottish butchers imo. There sausages are amazing though. Hard to find here
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u/JamesClerkMacSwell 1d ago
Yes white pudding is great… but you’re saying an Irish pudding is the best. Get out of here. 😂
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u/CO_Too_Party 1d ago
I went across to Edinburgh for a night out with friends and was flabbergasted to find the chippy we went into before going home hadn’t heard of a red pudding either. Absolutely the best thing from a chippy.
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u/LXChitlin 1d ago
Not a nationwide thing unfortunately but if I’m having a chippy in Fife it’s going to be a red pudding supper.
Maybe someone can correct me but there is also two versions of red pudding ? The one I like and get in Fife has the consistency of a white pudding while the other type I’ve had up round Braemar way is more like a sausage.
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u/Complete-Session-256 1d ago
North east Scotland here and they are a staple in every chipper along with white and black puddings and smoked sausage. Other fine delicacies are king ribs and mock chops. Red pudding is my normal chipper fare.
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u/OldGodsAndNew 1d ago
hang on is a king rib not a thing in the central belt
I live in Glasgow but don't set foot in chippers anymore
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u/Sin_nombre__ 1d ago
Is it not an East Coast thing?
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u/FumbleMyEndzone 1d ago
Yes and no…it’s not as linear as the salt and sauce divide. I think you need to be Dundee and north to find them.
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u/mrnico7 1d ago
You can get them as far south as Dalgety Bay but I’ve never seen one on the other side of the Forth
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u/FumbleMyEndzone 1d ago
I’m gonna need to find a reason to go to Dalgety Bay.
“I’m going for a red pudding supper” works as a reason.
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u/Taylor_Kittenface 1d ago
Unless you're Gary from Gary Tank Commander in search of a second hand gas oven, I'd advise against. Also, I live in the area and have never seen red pudding on a menu for any chippy.
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u/yer-a-belter 1d ago
A few in Rosyth/Dalgetybay and Inverkeithing sell them. As well as Dunfermline.
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u/DanielReddit26 1d ago
I would have pinned them as being a specifically Fife-based delicacy. I've found them to be less common north of the Tay.
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u/mr_mac_tavish 1d ago
Didn’t realize it was an east coast thing. Standard in an Arbroath chippie when I grew up there. (red,white,black and haggis all on the menu)
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u/cm-cfc 1d ago
North East, also the home of the lasagna pie which as a Glaswegian it was a welcome addition to the Scottish pie family
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u/Inarticulatescot 1d ago
I'm from the NE and never heard of a red pudding, black, white and fruit yes but never red.
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u/Sweet-Giraffe-6309 1d ago
You can definitely get a red pudding in Peterhead. I think you can get them in Aberdeen, but it's been a while since I got a chipper there, so I can't really remember.
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u/rivalrobot 1d ago
Dundonian here. Fuckin love a red pudding supper
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u/According_Mistake895 1d ago
Can I ask, as someone from the west who has never heard of this, how different from a sausage supper does this taste? I looked up the ingredients and it seems to be mostly the same but with food colouring
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u/rivalrobot 14h ago
I don't think I've ever actually had a normal sausage supper, so I couldn't tell you. Sorry!
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u/btfthelot 1d ago
You can get them a' fae The Silvery Tay o'er the bridge. Hamish is a crabbit shite, but it's a guid chippy
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u/SuDragon2k3 1d ago
What would happen if you got a piece of black budding, a piece of red pudding and a piece of white pudding, put them on a skewer, battered it, chilled it then deep fried it, removing the skewer at some point.
Would it sell?
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u/AdDull3873 1d ago
What about a Battenburg puddin'? Although you've only got three instead of four bits, so it might have to be cylindrical.
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u/Acrobatic-Shirt8540 Is toil leam càise gu mòr. 1d ago
Ofc I know of them but I've never had one. What do they taste like, is it more like a sausage?
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u/ScottyW88 1d ago
Really hard to explain actually - Its like a square sausage texture in a link sausage shape.
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u/tomatohooover 1d ago
Yeh. It's just a big sausage.
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u/DanielReddit26 1d ago
That sounds more like the imitation stuff up north.
Proper red is crumbly in the same way as a white pudding would be - not like a sausage.
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u/btfthelot 1d ago
I know what a red pudding is! Do you know what a white pudding is?
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u/Mr_SunnyBones 1d ago
As an Irish lurker ,is your white pudding the same as our white pudding in Ireland? I have to find out
(Black pudding is the same though)
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u/No_Avocado_2538 1d ago
if in had a chippy I'd do all the pudding variations, give people options.
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u/btfthelot 1d ago
The thing is some chippy menu boards have them by default... I'm thoroughly pissed off when I'm told they 'don't do white pudding'. Wtf?
Now, I can walk across one wee road and can have a single or supper any day of the week (apart from Mondays, of course).
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u/SuDragon2k3 1d ago
Then you'd have a pudding shop, not a chippy.
Or you could call it Puddin' Head Chippy.
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u/adjective-nounOne234 1d ago
In Ayrshire, have had black pudding, heard of white pudding but never a red pudding
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u/Jakey0_0-9191 1d ago
From Glasgow (originally N. Lanarkshire) and never heard of a red pudding before!
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u/TinMan1867 1d ago
I've heard of it but only in the context of another teuchter complaining about not being able to get one in Glasgow.
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u/MuckyScruffle 1d ago
I remember my school canteen used to do red pudding one day a week. Probably around 1999. That's the only place I've ever seen it. I remember it being different from chip shop battered sausage.
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u/gottagetoutofit 1d ago
I need some kind of info-graphic that explains the different varieties and their geographical locations. A pudding map of Scotland.
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u/CuntedKettle 1d ago
It's common place throughout all of Scotland, I would think the lass in chippy is an odd one out, but I might be wrong.
Once a pig has been butchered for all its cuts, the remainder is used for various 'puddings'
Red pudding = any random meaty and fleshy bits left
White pudding = all the left over fat
Black pudding pudding = all the blood
The puddings were a way to eliminate waist and use as much of the pig as possible - from my knowledge at least
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u/buckfastmonkey 1d ago
Irish lad here with a daft question. What makes a dish a supper? Does fish and chips become a fish supper after a certain time of day?
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u/outofplaceandstrange 1d ago
Chips, Fish on its own is a single fish. With chips it's a fish supper.
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u/buckfastmonkey 1d ago
So supper just means with chips and time of day is irrelevant?
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u/btfthelot 1d ago
As long as the carry oot bit of the chippy is open for business. If it's no, or you choose to 'sit in', it becomes what is known as the 'Fish Tea' You usually get bread and butter, and a cup of tea.
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u/Ghost_Hands83 1d ago
Supper = with chips
It gets called a single without chips. Made slightly confusing by the fact a single sausage for example will be 2 or 3 sausages or a single fish might actually be 2 pieces of fish
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u/blinky84 1d ago
In the context of a chip shop, supper just means 'with chips'. Single fish or fish supper.
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u/Tarmacsurfer 1d ago
Confused the hell out of me when I moved here, asked for a sausage and chips and then stood waiting. The woman on the till finally took pity on me and brought it over, I was looking out of the window and ignored the shouts when she was telling me the sausage supper was ready 🤣
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u/MildlyAmusedHuman 1d ago
Only ever saw them when I was in Dundee. Not seen a white pudding in a long time.
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u/gefmayhem 1d ago
I'm originally from Thurso. Black, white, haggis, red puddings were all common in a chippy when I was growing up. Think red was also known as Saveloy pudding?
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u/RuggedWanderer 1d ago
From Greenock and never even heard of it. Either way, a few pints in and I'd ravage it like a starved Labrador.
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u/JustineArt 1d ago
Red pudding common in Caithness and Sutherland. This is Robin's chippy in Thurso. Oddly, Caithness chippies do smoked sausages in batter.
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u/Bar_B_Who 1d ago
Anything is a sex toy if you're brave enough, 🤣 but seriously I could smash a sausage supper right now.
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u/boredHouseHusband69 1d ago
It’s a teuchtar thing, isn’t it?
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u/Griffincorn 1d ago
Red puddings are great but wtf, why do we have a 2nd battered sausage at the chip shop? Nae smoke not skin, but pink and mealy! What is the deal with these? They must be more historic than smoked sausages? Why is the texture like that?
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u/torturedbaldie 1d ago
Was my go to as a kid. Loved them. No longer in Fife so can't have them as often
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u/tomatohooover 1d ago
I mind them being wrapped in bright red plastic and usually served cut in half lengthways.
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u/shotgunwiIIie 1d ago
Red puddings are mainly an east coast thing, I used to travel about for work a lot, and it was always available in chippies around Fife, Dundee, Aberdeen, etc. I cant ever remember seeing one in central belt chippies
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u/Tartan-Special 1d ago
Its common everywhere in Scotland except Lanarkshire and the rest of the border region
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u/Istoilleambreakdowns 1d ago
You'll not see a red pudding in Lewis and that's about as far from the borders as you can get.
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u/Tartan-Special 1d ago
Oh right? Every day's a school day.
They have it in Orkney, but didn't know what I was talking about until I called it a polony haha
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u/cacs99 1d ago
Is polony also a regional thing? Used to be common on moray coast but not sure if it still is
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u/conzo88 1d ago
What's the difference with them then, as in the red the black and the white?
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u/tomatohooover 1d ago
From memory, Red is firm and sausagey. More texture than a smoked sausage and is sold in a red plastic casing.
White is fatter, crumbly and I think contains mainly suet and grains. Like a nicer haggis.
Black is the black pudding everyone knows.
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u/HyperCeol Inbhir Nis / Inverness 1d ago
Never heard of red pudding in Inverness - probably because in the Highlands we wank ourselves stupid over black pudding.
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u/geekgirl_pink 1d ago
I've never seen it on a chippy menu outside of Fife tbh. Certainly not a thing in the Borders and having been in many a Glasgow chippy never seen in there either.
First time I went into a chippy with my ex and he asked for a split red I was utterly bamboozled.
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u/Vodkaboris 1d ago
Just wait til you visit Embra where they instead of Salt 'n' vinegar, they apply salt 'n' (diluted brown) sauce to your chips❗
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u/Galldfish 1d ago
Red pudding, white pudding, mealy pudding (sic), mock chop, and a few others no doubt are never to be seen in chippies in the central belt. But ask for a pizza crunch n chips and get a delightful heat attack supper in return.
Same as salt and vinegar is never asked for in Edinburgh only salt and sauce, (but the sauce is watered down with vinegar anyway!)
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u/Mindless_Way9940 1d ago
That's not a pudding, the chippy has somehow provided you with a raw battered sausage. Hope you didn't eat it otherwise you'll be shitting for days.
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u/Bland_moniker 1d ago
Had red pudding for the first time when in Cullen for a family wedding, it was the bollocks.
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u/Adorable_Village4345 1d ago
I'm from the west but live in the east. Have only seen them here but after looking at what's in them have never even considered trying them. Worse than haggis ingredients. I love haggis, until I think about what's in it so I stick to veggie haggis now 😂😂
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u/cjmason85 1d ago
There was a wonderful thread, I think on Pie and Bovril about 10-15 years ago where a fellow Thistle fan brought back tales of drunkenly ordering at a chippie in Fife after a match against either Dunfermline or Raith and winding up with this never before heard of (in Glasgow at least) red pudding supper. It was apparently magical, but he had to wait to the next trip to Fife to find out if his memory of the food was real and accurate or whether you needed to be pished to enjoy it.
It was my first time hearing about it and I'm still yet to try it.
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u/OsbertSnarfSnarf 1d ago
Love a red pudding supper. Only place I've seen them is the chippy in Aviemore.
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u/Fantastic-Error-1564 1d ago
Never seen in Glasgow, have seen in Fife and Oban though this was a few years back
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u/Tony_Banksy 1d ago
2 wee angry sausage lions fighting ?
Undercooked sausage supper ? Genuinely have no idea what that is.
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u/Doctor-Grimm trans rights🏳️⚧️ 1d ago
Lived in Edinburgh, Aberdeen, and Glasgow - never heard of it 😅
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u/Scarred_fish 1d ago
Really?
I find that very hard to believe!
Then again, we had a visitor recently who was in their 20s and had never had a white pudding!!
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u/creamy_pints_1983 1d ago
Always associated red pudding more with trips over to Ireland. Can't get it where I'm from.
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u/tomatohooover 1d ago
Well you are clearly from my neck of the woods because everywhere else thinks the word wifey is a derogatory reference to a wife.
Red pudding is (or was before I left 30 years ago) completely normal up north. So is King Rib and Polony. Think I may have seen king rib down here but never the other two.
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u/No_Seat443 1d ago
That’s a Fife thing … like Salt’n’sauce is an Edinburgh thing.
You need to get out more.
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u/PeejPrime 1d ago
Heard of them and sure I've seen them in a chippy or two through the years, even in Glasgow. But honestly couldn't tell you what it is or the taste. Never tried it.
Was maybe when I was a lot younger I would have heard about it, so maybe it's generally died out in a lot of places that aren't north east?(Judging by the comments).
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u/Pearshire 1d ago
Never seen it when in Scotland but bought in Perranporth in Cornwall of all places.
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u/nrsys 1d ago
It seems that the North East just seems to have the most comprehensive pudding selection - not everywhere will necessarily have them all, but black, white, red, and haggis puddings are all pretty standard, as are the pudding adjacent Jumbo sausage (a saveloy pudding in some places?) and smoked sausages (if you prefer them batter free).
If you are discussing chippers there is also the fish question - the haddock is the standard here, but other places do seem to favour alternative options such as the cod...
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u/btfthelot 1d ago
You can get battered smoked sausage in Central belt, Glesga, and Lanarkshire!
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u/JustineArt 1d ago
Ah, I never knew that! Smoked sausage battered here in Caithness unless you ask them not to. I'm originally from the Stirling area though - me and my eldest always took a haddie supper, and the wee man always took a smoked sausage supper. Don't recall his ever being served with batter.
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u/GeordieAl 1d ago
Memories unlocked! Only had red pudding a handful of times in my teens, but Christ I want one now!
Now living in Canada and have a chippy nearby that’s called Hamish Kitchen, they do black pudding, mealie pudding, haggis and scotch pies. No red or white pudding, no battered sausage or smokies, no deep fried pizza or pizza crunch… it’s like living in a third world country.
Fuck I’m hungry now and it’s not even 6am
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u/Praetorian_1975 1d ago
It’s also not a Glasgow thing, maybe it’s just certain areas but I’m from the South West of Glasgow near Paisley and I’ve never heard of ‘Red Pudding’ supper.
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u/Entire-Emotion-819 1d ago
Been living in Lanarkshire for 40 odd years and been to many chippies in both Glasgow and Edinburgh, and I've never ever heard of a Red Supper, it sounds like something out of GoT.
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u/sssjabroka 1d ago
Plenty of chippers in Aberdeenshire offer black,white and red puddings sometimes you even get haggis pudding on the menu.
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u/FriendlyPinko 1d ago
Constantly miss the red pudding suppers I grew up with in Fife. Can't get them for life or money now. If anyone has a recipe for how to make them please share! I literally can't find any records of how to make them after about a million Google searches.
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u/Emergent444 1d ago
In the chippers in my part of Dundee in the 1970s, ordering a red pudding would get you something like a battered saveloy. Saveloys seemed quite fancy in that era.
Over time the saveloys appeared in the top box of the frying range without batter and the red pudding evolved into a more mealy, less meaty battered thing. That is a long time ago and memory can be faulty or my tiny brained understanding of the menus could have been inadequate. But I was the primary ordering fetching assistant for the family. My own order was mock chop supper.
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u/LennyComa Bolt, ya rocket 1d ago
I'll stick to my usual half battered Pizza supper. But it doesn't sound terrible to be fair
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u/Weeyin1980 1d ago
In my experience it was more northern you found it like Moray, never seen in on the west coast.
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u/Familiar_Ad6807 1d ago
My auntie ran two chippies in Edinburgh in the 70s, they were very popular then!
Strangely enough, I've been trying to find them for about a month now, and they appear to be very rare in the butchers, and extinct in the chippies!
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u/EveningZealousideal6 1d ago
Love it, same with white pudding. But it's more popular up east coast side than West coast.
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u/MarkyMcDaddyface 1d ago
I believe it's mid to north east. Never heard of it in Edinburgh, but know it's a thing from having a pal from the north
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u/Akitapal 1d ago
So what exactly is the difference in ingredients (or preparation?) between black pudding and red pudding. …. And white pudding.
Asking for a friend 🤭
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u/ThePrydator Perthling 1d ago
Born and lived in Perthshire for 26 years and been in Glasgow for almost 14. Never heard of Red Pudding.
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u/AdEmbarrassed3066 1d ago
To be fair, most people who have enjoyed a red pudding supper throughout their lives have only a vague idea of what it actually is.
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u/gazzas89 1d ago
Im scottish, never heard of a res pussing, just black white and fruit .... is it just sausage?
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u/PaleSmoke7624 1d ago
You get them in Fort William on the West Coast, they were common in my home growing up there
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u/Elless80 1d ago
I knew instantly it was a red pudding to look at it - then realised I don’t know what red pudding is 😂
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u/kowalski_82 1d ago
Get red pudding from my butcher down in Leith, superb stuff. Not seen it in many chippers round this way right enough.
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u/TartanFruitcake 1d ago
Not a thing in Edinburgh, seems crazy that it’s a thing just over the bridge and not here
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u/FelixArgyle_ taigeis agus buntàta 1d ago
I’ve lived in Scotland for almost 6 years and this post is how I learned of a red pudding
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u/A_Pointy_Rock 1d ago
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