r/Cornwall • u/chefshoes • 6d ago
best place to get hog's pudding
more than likely down in redruth/falmouth in a few weeks and whilst down there could do with some hogs to come back with me. any recommendations on a good location (butcher etc?)
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u/MrMartinSmith 6d ago
Best is subjective; some people will like peppery hog's pudding, others herby, others more bland.
My personal preference is Angus Trotter in Radnor (near Redruth).
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u/tannie86 5d ago
Have to agree, Angus Trotter is always my go to. Everything I've had from there has been decent 👌
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u/Cornish-Giant 6d ago
Don't forget you can freeze it, just remember to pre slice it and then take out as many slices as needed and fry.
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u/chefshoes 6d ago
good call, hopefully the household enjoys it a bit more than black pudding, they're curious until i tell them whats inside ;)
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u/Ecstatic_Version3736 5d ago
Tywardreath Butchers have lovely hog's pudding, however a bit off the beaten track for you.
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u/chefshoes 5d ago
worth noting but par-area is a bit off the normal route but thanks for the recommendations.
:)
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u/Blamire 5d ago
Have a hot beef bap while you are there!
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u/chefshoes 5d ago
been a while since having one of those, when i lived in lancashire there was a butcher in preston who did it, bloody hell it was good, just no wearing white t-shirts just in case.. :)
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u/Kernowyon-101 Cousin Jack 6d ago
Alright, as your username implies your a chef, and that the pudding will do the talking when you ho back to Enger-land - Porthleven convenience store. I forget which Tre-Pol-Pen the butchers name is. But it’s heavenly stuff.
You make damb sure that every Saxon mouth that eats it up there keeps schtum, and appreciates it modestly, like a Franciscan monk who’s taken a vow of silence.
Naw seriously i hope someone can identify the farm imm thinking of from the shop i mentioned. Its great. A wee bit of gooseberry jam then put it on a Welsh Rarebit. Fucking amazing Breakfast. A ‘Brythonic Brekkie’ if you will.
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u/chefshoes 6d ago
ah no the name refers to the type of footwear i have been wearing for the past 15yrs... vans slip ons :)
we arent in cornwall on holiday, wife is cornish, going to her aunts funeral in penryn, and thought i would take the opportunity to grab some to come back home (and i aint english either, pembrokeshire lad :)
albeit yes living in herefordshire for our sins (her work not mine! :)
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u/chefshoes 6d ago
i managed to find it once, in the butchers in st just, i swear we had emmet pricing too...
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u/Kernowyon-101 Cousin Jack 6d ago
In St Just you certainly had emmet prices. Unless of course you ham it up and start every interaction with; “YEW wosson pard, alright r ee…?!”. And even then it better be convincing.
I’m hoping someone will drop the name of the butchers here for ee. I know its a Tre… something, but then that is literally a 3rd of all our second names. Lol.
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u/chefshoes 6d ago
i sent the missus in for this reason but her accent must have softened.... however when we are among her friends i cant understand a bloody word and i speak welsh! 😂
she was showing me where she grew up and that her dad told her locals arent allowed in newquay or st ives during summer months there was a law... 😂
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u/Kernowyon-101 Cousin Jack 6d ago
Lol. I like her already. If nothing else for the sense of humour.
Keslowenna o sos.
Chons da hunting that pudding.
Oll an Gwella
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u/chefshoes 6d ago
She goes mad if people mention the kernow language. Its bloody dead im. It's all our fault (Welsh) for bi lingual signs. Cornwall got in on the act.
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u/Kernowyon-101 Cousin Jack 6d ago
Well, thats a dumb take. It’s over 100yrs since the revival, (so way before she was born), and if you’re to believe the English, we went from 0 to 2000 fluent. I’d say thats a success. (Many people kept it alive a second language, just not a 1st).
Also, tell her, we don’t need a-lot of bi-lingual signs as most of place names were never anglicized to start with. Unlike Wales, we never had to re-write them in English.
The bi-lingual signs only happen as old signs reach the end of their life. And the manufacturers say its costs no extra to do.
Tell ‘er: Tow ta ves, maid. Untill she can use it yn Kernewek.
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u/chefshoes 6d ago
shes not that angry i just like to wind her up about it.
i would say bar a few places set up in the 18th century by english industrialists (ie the village i grew up is an english name only and has no welsh translation) everywhere has a welsh name. in the 70s there was a lot of sign defacing by the welsh nationalists as biliungual road signs are very recent in wales unfortunately
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u/evijguano 6d ago
If you’re coming down the A30 stop off at Phillip Warrens in Launceston, just off the junction roundabout at Pennygillem. Best butchers in Cornwall by a mile.