Risky food...

[ironglow]

As a youngster, when fall rolled around and the leaves turned to umber and gold..with the first frosty days, it was time for the annual butchering day.
   Often hogs were strung up by their hind legs, so the butcher for the day,  could more easily be able to "stick 'em".

  Some folks would collect the blood in a pan as it poured down. They collected it to be used in making blood pudding or blood sausage.  https://www.delightedcooking.com/what-is-blood-pudding.htm

    I am not aware of any place selling either the pudding or the sausage, but I did see it for sale in Germany, when I was living there in the 1960s.  It seems that every metzgerei (butcher shop)had blutwurst (blood sausage) for sale.

    I would not touch the stuff however, because I consider it "risky food"!  Why? ...Because it is forbidden in the Bible..

 
“Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.” (Deut 12:23)

  Yes, that is Old Testament, but it is also forbidden by the New Testament..

    " That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well."  (Acts 15:29)

  It troubles me that I may have somehow eaten some when just a child..and unaware..  That's why I shy away from it, and consider it risky.....   Just my $ .02..... take it or leave it ..

[Bob Riebe]

I would not be concerned, Blood Sausage is cooked; any steak still has blood in it, and I pour that out of a package and cook it, uuummm good.

Blutwurst (Blood Sausage)
Also Known As:  Schwarzwurst, Rotwurst, Topfwurst, Blunzen

A dark, almost black sausage made from fresh pig's blood, diced pork and pork fat, salt, pepper, and assorted seasonings. Blutwurst comes in varying sizes. Some are 6-inch links (2 inches in diameter). Other Blutwurst are large, bologna sized sausages.


  Blood Sausage Continental, 11 oz.
$11.90

Blood Sausage (Stiglmeier) approx. 1lb
 $ 7.99

[Ranger99]

No thanks

I don't eat bloody meat or squirty eggs

[Lloyd Smale]

me either. God gave man fire for a reason. I like my food cooked.

No thanks

I don't eat bloody meat or squirty eggs

[ironglow]

  Surprised it is being marketed here.  I thought the blood from slaughter houses was likely going to fertilizer plants.
 
   The Biblical stipulation seems to apply to blood being used as the base for anything. Obviously, the blood sacrifices
  were divided in OT times, and the meat used..obviously still containing minimal blood.

  Although in NT view, the shed blood of Jesus supplants the OT sacrifice..somehow, the proscription against eating blood survives.

  I'll drop that discussion here, because if I go on somebody will insist that we switch the thread.

[Bob Riebe]

Brinzel as Tanta called the browings in a pan, were a treat.
Pour the excess juice from a packaged thin port chop or small steak in a frying pan, cook it with just butter and a small amount of lard or grease, fry it til lit is done.

Then scrape the brinzel up, and put it on toast or add a little more butter and fry a jumbo egg, two yolks are another treat -- (For the first time in my life, a carton of Jumbo eggs I bought two weeks ago, ALL eggs had double yolks  ) -- over the brinzel and butter till whites are done but yolks are runny , and put that on top of a pork chop or small steak and then scrap every thing still in the pan on top of the egg and meat, season with salt and pepper and you are eating God's gift to man. 

[ironglow]

...So it I stand corrected in not thinking blood sausage could taste good..  I learn something new every day..

[Ranger99]

  Surprised it is being marketed here.  I thought the blood from slaughter houses was likely going to fertilizer plants.
 

I used to buy gallons of beef blood at
the slaughterhouse to make catfish
bait with.

[oldandslow]

Some things should not be eaten. Blood sausage is on that list. Gag, choke, cough.