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  • We have already developed a range of decorative accessories, such as the oink-oink stool, the golden black-pudding lamp and the leg-of-ham trolley.

    Imaginarte’s Creative Pigsty 2009

  • More recently, in 1975, a 50-year-old bricklayer in England, laughed himself to death while watching a scene in The Goodies involving a Scotsman in a kilt and a homicidal black-pudding.

    wikipedia is funny... but don't laugh too hard 2006

  • Caricaturists delight to represent him so: round, short-necked, pimple-faced, apoplectic, bursting out of waistcoat, like a black-pudding, a shovel-hatted fuzz-wigged Silenus.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • More recently, in 1975, a 50-year-old bricklayer in England, laughed himself to death while watching a scene in The Goodies involving a Scotsman in a kilt and a homicidal black-pudding.

    Archive 2006-10-01 2006

  • At length in winter he was taken down again, as the black-pudding had to be set before a guest.

    Household Tales 2003

  • But still he could not get away, there was nothing for it but to let himself be thrust into a black-pudding with the bits of bacon.

    Household Tales 2003

  • I would as soon set about making a black-pudding by the same receipt.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • I would as soon set about making a black-pudding by the same receipt.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • He had a shilling in his pocket; and he dined sumptuously, he tells me, on a black-pudding, an eel-pie, and a bottle of ginger-beer.

    The Moonstone 2003

  • Rein-deer blood is also a viand with these people, and being boiled, either by itself or mixed with wild berries, in the stomach of the animal from whence it was taken, forms a kind of black-pudding.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829 Various

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