Airmen make black pudding from their own blood

The Telegraph is reporting a story about a couple airmen based in FFB (just west of Munich) who decided to try their hand at making authentic blood sausage (a.k.a. black pudding). So far, so good. They followed -- to the letter -- the instructions on the recipe handed down by one of the pair's grandmothers which called for extremely fresh blood. The 25- and 29-year-olds, being German, did what any good, logical-thinking German would do and tapped the freshest supply they had available: themselves.

They were only found out because, realising they'd run out of base ingredients a bit too quickly, they began recruiting their comrades, one of whom -- again in typically German fashion -- went to ask a superior officer if there was any problem in donating to the cause. Both airmen were immediately suspended and are awaiting trial, although on what charges no one can say. Unlike the Meiwes affair, while it might be possible to classify this as cannibalism (against which there's still no law in Germany), no human was killed or harmed in the making of this sausage. It was only a little blood from still-living, volunteer donors.

You can read the original story over at the Münchner Merkur. I've never been a big fan of Blutwurst except for one specific type they make in Belgium, but after reading this curiosity is getting the better of me.

woof.

Is this the proper place to insert the term "bloody idiots"?

I think I am going to puke - couldn't you have waited until after lunch for this one.
That is nearly as bad as using your own sperm for the curry sauce.

I don't think I would even try it if it was even my own blood. Why is it that people with lots of time on their hands do the most craziest and dumbest things possible.

I'm intrigued as to how much blood would they actually need?

Need to live or need to make the Pudding??

They could also go for a lipo-suction for some cooking fat.

A colleague says you'd need a couple of liters for a kilogram of Blutwurst..

GROSS!! I think I am going to barf now.

YUCK!! What a story! German rationality/efficiency is at it again!

I did a part of my military service in FFB, always thought something is WRONG about the place, luckily, I escaped unscathed...

Blood and Guts?

In case anyone was wondering, I have a recipe which also answers the question about the amount of blood needed: 1/4 l per 1kg of meat/fat, so one person could safely make a kilo of his own "personalised" sausages every four weeks or so.


I made a couple phone calls and it really is pretty hard to get hold of fresh pig blood.

woof.

What is it with Germans and bodily fluids?

WTF??

You can't cook with sperm. It coagulates immediately and you have to wait 20 minutes or so for it to become fully fluid. And even though it coagulates on its own, it doesn't work as a binder.

woof.

We beat them to the punch yesterday ;-)

If you put it on a skewer would it be a blood donor kebab?

Please, for the love of all that does not suck, please tell me you did not spend the last three days working on that lame excuse for a joke.

woof.

Call them bloody idiots or innovators, but it's their own bodily fluids and they didn't try to keep it a secret. Sure it's gross, but hardly worth the court costs to detain, try and convict them. That would the real lunacy.