Posted on 09/26/2010 6:47:52 AM PDT by mattstat
Yesterday's headlines in all Taiwanese newspapers screamed with indignation: United States Department of Agriculture To Ban Pork Blood Cake! Typical is this news report (which is in Mandarin; but you'll get the idea; word-for-word, pork blood cake = jew shiyah gao):
Pork blood cake is just that: a cake made of pig's blood and rice stuck on a stick. The rice and blood are cooked together and then left to set up; the rice binds the blood. The end results is like a sausage without a skin.
The best pork blood cake looks like a slightly melted fudgesicle. Just before eating, it is steamed or otherwise warmed, then dunked in a sweet and slightly salty black concoction which tastes of a cross between oyster and sugary soy sauce. This ersatz fudgesicle is then coated with cilantro and finally plastered with sweet peanut powder. It is almost always ensconced in a plastic bag so that the sauce can't drip on your fingers.
If you're a fan of black pudding or blood sausage---and who isn't?---then you will adore pork blood cake, which is sweet, warm, unctuous, and with a slight chewiness. It is delicious. This only goes to prove the old adage: all the best food is on sticks.
The worst pork blood cake isn't; by which I mean that inferior duck or chicken blood is substituted, but it is---let's admit it---sometimes still called pork blood cake. A telltale is usually that the cake is rectangular and hard. Real pork blood, as the saying goes, melts in your mouth. You have to apply some heavy-duty tooth friction to get duck blood to slide down the tubes...
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Sounds really interesting.
Rice/blood sausage without the skin ~ sounds vaguely familiar ~ kind of like the rice/blood sausage soaked in a gravy you get with dim sun. I know we don’t have this stuff at home preferring good old fashioned squid on a stick!
Never tried it, but it sounds like it could be good!
In Sweden we have the “blodpudding” (similar to the english black pudding, except the blood is mixed with flour and baked), which I love.
Sharia?
That’s what it appears to be. As disgusting as the food sounds to me (yeah I know, if you’re hungry enough you’ll eat anything) it shouldn’t be banned.
IrishCatholic,
Except for the cilantro and peanut powder, it is exactly like Irish black pudding. Delicious!
People here marvel the Native Americans used to use “every part of a buffalo,” in order to condemn modern society, of course. But back a hundred years ago, EVERY culture did that. Its because they were poor. Our squeamishness comes from our wealth.
Real boudin was banned a long time ago. They did that for health reasons, not political reasons. That’s why boudin you can buy (in a market) today is just meat, rice and spices.
I’ll take your word for it.
Some of us have the heart for adventure.
Some of us don’t.
As Dirty Harry said, a man’s got to know his limitations.
Would be a wonderful dish to serve at Gitmo!
That is a true statement...My father was born in 1901 on a farm in the Michigan thumb....He loved to eat chicken feet and pickled pigs feet....You used every part of any animal you slaughtered....
Not sure if I am remembering correctly but I think even the brain was used in tanning hides...
Americans would also be surprised how much that hasn't really changed, it just goes on behind the scenes before our meat gets to the grocery. For instance, chicken feet is still a delicacy in China. (I have eaten it, but don't particularly care for it). A lot of the chicken feet Chinese people eat is sent from the US, where it is wasted here. Same with dark meat. From what I have seen, KFC in China is practically nothing more than their dark meat chicken outlet, because we prefer the light meat.
Your an Irish Catholic, and you don’t eat your pudding? How can you have your cake, if you don’t eat your pudding?
In VA, we call that “scrapple.”
Fixing things like chicken feet is a lost art. I remember getting a cook book on Amish cooking and one of the receipes was for calf’s head soup......first you get a calfs head. Thats where I quit reading.....:O)
Because I filled up on meat in the first place before I went behind the bikesheds.
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