Red pudding

Red pudding is a meat dish served mainly at chip shops in parts of East Scotland as an alternative to fish (see fish and chips). The ingredients are bacon, beef, pork, pork rind, suet, rusk, wheat flour, spices, salt, beef fat and colouring.

This clumpy red-coloured mixture is formed into a large sausage-like shape of roughly eight inches in length, no different from its black and white pudding relatives and the chip shop variant of haggis. To encase it, the food is thickly coated in batter, deep fried, and served hot, ready to be taken away. Bought on its own it is known as a single red, or when accompanied by chips it is known as a red pudding supper.