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Pease Pudding - yes or no?

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GreyllGin · 09/08/2022 19:17

Went to a lovely little cafe in our village today, I had a pease pudding and ham sandwich. Delicious. I do love a good pease pudding. My children all think I’m weird and are convinced I’m the only person in the world that likes such a thing!

AIBU or is pease pudding a delicious and enjoyable food stuff?

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Mysterian · 13/07/2026 17:09

As this thread is 4 years old you must have searched for people mentioning pease pudding, so I'd say you're a big fan!

Grandmakaren · 11/07/2026 10:20

GreyllGin · 09/08/2022 19:17

Went to a lovely little cafe in our village today, I had a pease pudding and ham sandwich. Delicious. I do love a good pease pudding. My children all think I’m weird and are convinced I’m the only person in the world that likes such a thing!

AIBU or is pease pudding a delicious and enjoyable food stuff?

I love pease pudding too.its delicious

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 09/08/2022 23:49

ShitPuffin · 09/08/2022 23:08

I feel like this thread has inadvertently herded all the Geordies to one place. 😂

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"My pease pud brings all the lads to the yard..."

GreeboIsMySpiritAnimal · 09/08/2022 23:44

Pease pudding is fab. Great in a ham stotty, but even better in a well-dipped saveloy dip with stuffing and mustard. Drools...

Brigante9 · 09/08/2022 23:32

It isn’t soggy. Yes to pease pudding, I’m northern and it was common to eat it growing up.

ShitPuffin · 09/08/2022 23:08

I feel like this thread has inadvertently herded all the Geordies to one place. 😂

🙋🏼‍♀️

Mammyloveswine · 09/08/2022 21:10

What? It's always a perfect combo! Ham and pease pudding is lush! Pease pudding and savoloy dip... mmm!

Ham rolled around pease pudding is lush!

I add tubs to a ham hock stew I make in the slow cooker! Love it!

blitzen · 09/08/2022 20:57

I love ham and pease pudding but I'm 100% geordie which might explain it!

SliceOfCakeCupOfTea · 09/08/2022 20:41

TomAllenWife · 09/08/2022 19:25

Omg reminds me of being young living in Northumberland and Newcastle

Pease pudding & ham stottie. YUM!

Had one for my lunch today!

ShitPuffin · 09/08/2022 20:35

GreyllGin · 09/08/2022 19:49

Pease Pudding and Savaloy is a line in Food, Glorious Food the song they sing at the start of Oliver! So I’ve always assumed it was popular in the south too.

Yes but Google a saveloy dip.

It’s like a sexy, soggy dream of a sandwich.

I’m sure that not what they were referring to in Oliver and I refuse to believe Southerners have the fine tastes to understand it’s magnificence since they can barely get over a chip butty with gravy. Wink

midgetastic · 09/08/2022 20:19

Picked onion Tudor please

WaffleAndGelato · 09/08/2022 20:17

Pease pudding is nice, wouldn't put it in a sandwich though, too carby for my liking. Bit like having a chick pea sandwich.

My DM used to make her pease pudding in the salty water from the gammon joint, we'd have it a consistency similar to loose mash and served with the cooked gammon and veg.

MarshaMelrose · 09/08/2022 20:15

I now live in Scotland and it's all haggis and tunnocks teacakes round here...

I'm English through and through, but you can't do down a Tunnock Teacake! 😋

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 09/08/2022 20:13

Veryverycalmnow · 09/08/2022 19:28

It's a shame it tricks you into thinking it's sweet with the word pudding. It's just like cold mushy peas which I wouldn't spread on my sandwich but I know plenty who like it.

Puddings aren't all sweet - there's Yorkshire pudding and steak and kidney pudding. As far as I know, it means a solid lump of something, which might be either sweet or savoury, cooked in a pudding basin and probably steamed or boiled. Then by extension the word pudding gets used as a synonym for dessert or sweet course.

I must look out for a pease pudding and ham sandwich when we go to the NE later this year! Sounds right up my street.

MarshaMelrose · 09/08/2022 20:13

AnnaMagnani · 09/08/2022 19:32

@MarshaMelrose you could easily leave it in the pot for 9 days as it tastes better the longer you leave it.

NB I do not accept responsibility for any food poisoning incurred.

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Thanks for the warning. I'll check it out on a family member first. 😉

FlibbertyGiblets · 09/08/2022 20:10

Yes PLEASE. My nanna used to make it, scrummy. I think she used a recipe from her Mrs Beeton book. A ham heel was involved (do I mean slipper?).

Gatekeeper · 09/08/2022 20:06

TomAllenWife · 09/08/2022 20:00

I used to like a 'canny bag of Tudor' with my pease pudding and ham stottie

Preferably tomato ketchup flavour

'bag o' Tudor? Ah'd climb a mountain'

Titsflyingsouth · 09/08/2022 20:03

My whole family used to love it but the appearance always put me off. Looks wholly unappetising...

Weirdly, love chick peas in other forms - falafel, hummus etc.

TomAllenWife · 09/08/2022 20:00

I used to like a 'canny bag of Tudor' with my pease pudding and ham stottie

Preferably tomato ketchup flavour

TattiePants · 09/08/2022 19:56

I'm also from the NE and really don't like it, I think it's the texture rather than the taste. DH used to get a saveloy dip with pease pudding and stuffing from the local 'pork shop' which looked disgusting.

SirSidneyRuffDiamond · 09/08/2022 19:55

Another Southerner here and I love Pease pudding and saveloy (like the song in the Oliver Twist musical). I like it cold too. One of the foods of the gods.

gaggiagirl · 09/08/2022 19:55

I have never been to a wake in Northumberland that did not serve excellent ham and pease pudding stottie sandwiches.
There's always talk of who will bring the ham and pease pudding sandwiches in my family and it's like an honour to be the sandwich maker and have everyone compliment your pease pudding skills!

mistermagpie · 09/08/2022 19:53

Oh it's lovely!! I was born in the north east and my grandad made the best pease pudding! Has anyone got a recipe, because I haven't had it for years, I now live in Scotland and it's all haggis and tunnocks teacakes round here...

Spanielsarepainless · 09/08/2022 19:53

It's disgusting.

tinkertailor2 · 09/08/2022 19:50

Yes from me! It's basically an English hummus (sort of...)