Just as you're ready to get up, the main course comes, a small mound of scrambled eggs surrounded by not only thin breakfast sausages but also a rasher of Irish bacon, a slice of black pudding, as blood sausage is also known, and a slice of white pudding, a cereal-like sausage.
That would be a slice of black pudding, Arjoon (and Rohan).
How would you like to start the day with a scrap of cheese and ham, like the Dutch, or a bowl of salted porridge and a slice of black pudding, like the Scots?
Preparing for an interview with David Molyneux, the council's deputy leader, over a fried breakfast (£4; mug of tea 30p), a slice of black pudding lurking beneath the bubble and squeak spurted on to my shirt when I stabbed it.
Dessert was a return to restraint: a small slice of bread pudding, made with tangy rye and studded with miniscule kernels of popped amaranth, followed by slightly grainy bee-pollen ice cream served with a spoonful of Meyer-lemon ice and a cloud of chamomile cream.
Mr. Green, the Democratic candidate for mayor, ate lunch with the former president, Bill Clinton, at Miss Mamie's Spoonbread Too restaurant on West 110th Street -- topped off by a slice of banana pudding pie -- before appearing together outside the restaurant at a sidewalk news conference.
Top with a small spoonful of the spice purée, then a slice of black pudding, then half a scallop.
Sausage, bacon and beans are fine, but why are a cooked half tomato and a slice of black pudding invited to the party?
Two fried eggs, two rashers of smoked back bacon, a good quality pork sausage, a couple of slices of black pudding, buttered toast and a grilled tomato, mustard and ketchup to taste and plenty of strong tea.
Breakfast wasn't "eaten" it was "got across your chest", a fried culinary flak jacket of bacon, fried eggs, toast with butter, slices of black pudding, an abstemious blob of HP Sauce.
I would go off on one now about the whole pig thing – bacon rind and crackling, slices of black pudding dotted with granules of fat like diamonds in a mine – but I think you know about that already.
