Sometimes, it's time for us to shut up and let our customers do the talking.
Scroll down and read some of the lovely stuff our customers have been kind enough to share about our products. If our fresh blood black pudding, bacons and free-from range of products inspire you to leave a review, we'd be delighted.
Super Burns' Supper!
Best haggis I've had, well-seasoned, texture reasonably firm and a strong meaty, almost gamey, flavour. Wasn't sure how best to cook, 60 mins in foil in a waterbath did the job perfectly!
Always so good
I’ve yet to find a less than excellent product here, to be honest I will go without rather than buy bacon elsewhere. On the few occasions I have telephoned with a question the staff answering the call are helpful, friendly and happy. Thank you
Yum!
As a family we became fans of haggis after spending time in the Highlands over many years. Fruitpig haggis is the best I have tasted. Utterly delicious and airfrier friendly. 450 gram on 150c wrapped in foil. 40mins. Perfect!
Lardo mm mm mmmm!
The best black pudding going with the added benefit of the smokey aromas & flavours from the lardo!
Outstanding!
This is simply the best black pudding you will ever eat. What more can I say?
Amazing Quality
I had only ever eaten black pudding from Supermarkets before and this stuff blew my mind! Great taste and quality ingredients
As good as it gets
My wife and I agreed, this is the best black pudding we've eaten, as good as that one we found in a little deli in Norfolk. And yes, it turns out that deli is a fruitpig dealer, it was one and the same.
Simply the bestest!
Grew up on the various puddings of Yorks/Lancs, some were good but others pretty much going thru the motions. Recently moved up to the northern colony of Glasgowshire, where all the puds are invariably beef based, so splashed out on a big box of FruitPig goodies. This is wonderful, smooth and creamy, just the right amount of savoury and peppery seasoning. Mastered the art of frying to perfection for a lightly-sealed "crust", the odd crumb makes a wonderful adornment on my fried egg. And just when I thought my fry-up couldn't be any more perfect, I discovered the 53!
Better than Stornoway
My son used to bring Stornoway black pudding from Lewis. This is even better.
Not just for brunch!
Ohmydays this is good.
Why has no-one done this before?
And, even if they had, I doubt it would be a good as this. It was a ten from everyone around our table.
Hall
I purchased a whole stick of black pudding from one of the butcher's you supply, simply astounding. I have bought loads of whole black puddings over the last few years and have always been disappointed. Perfectly spiced and crisps up lovely on outside and soft in middle.
Haggis
I feel I need to leave a review as this haggis is so nearly there; however it's a little sloppy, perhaps lacking in oats. The smell and taste is spot on but s a genuine scottish haggis lover, i ask you to please work on the texture. Absolutely love your gluten free black pudding. (Fruit Pig reply. yes, we use much more 'meat' than the cheaper, oatie brands. Not to everyone's taste, but we just love its richness. Thanks for the honest review)
Love this
I come from Lancashire even though I have lived in Yorkshire most of my life now. and black pudding is a staple in the red rose county. This is the best black pudding I have ever tasted. I get it from my local butchers but I will start getting it delivered directly now.
Excellent
These are excellent black puddings, I have not had better. The taste and quality are unmatched. Please keep making them forever
The Best
Without doubt the best Haggis we have ever tasted. Absolutely mouth watering and will certainly become a regular meal. Can't wait to try the Black Pudding.
Haggis All Year Round!
Tried Fruit Pigs’ haggis for virtual Burns’ Night. The best I have ever had. Not waiting till next January to have it again - whole family loved it!
Simply the best!
Tried this for the first time recently and instantly regretted not doing so before. 18-year-old son loved it too. Bought Fruit Pigs bacon, sausage, mince and haggis as well. Portioned the black pudding and froze sections so that every weekend can be a treat!!
Best Haggis
Just had with neeps and tatties, bought from our local butcher and it was delicious. We oven baked.
Collard Love (Collar Bacon)
Well it just makes a change doesnt it. Why be boring and only buy back or streaky when there's so much more on offer. Decent slabs of flesh perfect for a substantial breakfast and riddled with marbling, full of unctuous flavours. Now, have you made up your order to be large enough for free delivery....no? well throw a few of these in and enjoy
For Coffee Lovers
Its black, it smells dark and moody, and when added to hot water it stays black , it smells slightly sweeter and it will blae off thine cobwebs. Kind of like a lot of coffee really, but this coffee doesnt put pennies in the back pockets of the high flying (supposedly) bigbusiness chiefs of the supermarket world.
What joy!
I have been searching for 'proper" smoked collar bacon ever since lockdown put my local farmers market on hold. Imagine my surprise, when after finding your website and ordering the smoked collar, I made myself a bacon sandwich with your bacon. OMG! Simply the BEST! I will certainly buy again. p.s - the Macon was also great!
Gorgeous nitrate free cold smoked bacon
Gorgeous, give it a wash to reduce the salt - texture and flavour incredible, like nothing you've had... Just a shame its the price of a good large ribeye steak...
Mutton - the lost meat - refound
Little Bo Peep had a little lamb, Little Bo Peep had a roast dinner, Little Bo Peep no little lamb. Next year, Little Bo Peep had a little lamb, Little lamb got through the gap under the fence and went to gambol and frollick in fields far away. Little Bo Peep went hungrier than last year. Little lamb grew and grew and grew, the days got shorter, the nights got longer and little lamb became a hogget. Little hogget lamb kept grazing all those nice grasses and herbs, converting their sugars into energy and grew his little muscles. Little hogget lamb was slowly maturing, if only Little Bo Peep could find the damned creature. Little hogget lamb, all full of slow produced flavas, got tooth ache. His teetch coming through his gums. Little hogget lamb was morphing into Little hogget lamb mutton, lets just call him Mutton for now. Mutton was a great deceiver, folk thought he was old and unpalatable. In fact it was the opposite, an age which had lost grace and favour, everyone wanted a nice bit of young flesh to consume. But Antwacky Mr Mutton, he knew what he was about. He was class and style, he'd lived life and knew his rythmn, his grain was fine and had threads of fatty flava intertwined in his bulk. He was not going to go to waste, he was going to be the king. He was going to give Mr Porker a run for his grass, snaffle his pig nuts, and make for the open hill. But, lo, what is that? Hark, it is Little Bo Peep with her collie dog. Awaaaay, come bye, and that was Antwacky Mr Mutton gathered up. He knew what was to come, for other's had told him about it. His could see that his role in life was to sustain another. If only all of the old small abattoirs had not been closed over the years. At least he had heard of these good old boys who had turned themselves into slaughtermen, hardly the most glamourous of human roles, but a hugely vital one and a rumour was around that they really cared, they knew compassion and they honoured the beasts who would fall to them that day. Antwacky Mr Mutton was sanguine about his future but he knew he was to become a top quality cut, cured to perfection and ready to make someone's face beam for the rest of the day. Little Bo Peep's lover was over for the day and they made a nice salad from the garden for lunch. But something was missing. Antwacky Mr Mutton. Bo got out the old cast iron fry pan and a few slices of Macon, cooked them till the fat was crispy and broke them up over the salad. Oh, what joy, what pleasures. The simple things in life are the best, and Bo and her lover spent the rest of the afternoon lounging on the lawn in the sun. They were not Macon Bacon. But you could go and order some of your own, go on, surprise yourself.
Another Fruitpig Win
Stop doing this to me. My mouth is salivating. Look at all of that lovely fat, good old fashioned proper animal fat. Yup, saturated. The best fat indeed. Saturated fats are far stronger when heat is applied, they do not break down in the same way as vegetable oils, so if you're going to cook fat make sure its proper animal fat. This Guanciale bacon made from the jowly chaps of Mr Porker is heaven on earth and I don't do religion. Think about it, Mr Porker likes to eat, he's snuffling in the ground for grubs and roots, he's chomping and munching for most of the day. Finally his time comes, he becomes chops and joints, maybe a ham or two, some saussies in his own casings and a slab of back and flank for bacon. But what of that great muscle mass on his 'eed. The butcher's of the West Country roll it up and call it Bath Chaps, but FruitPig cure it and make it all the better for it. Be bold. Fry it, enjoy the flava seeping out of the fat. And keep the fat, it will be great for frying your black dag in. Why are you even reading this review, stop wasting time, just buy some jowly bacon
The wee beastie
Despite my Scottish heritage I am only fairly new to the joys of a white dag. I started out with Howie's of Auchterarder white pud - it was good, but after having found Fruitpig's black on a trip to Norfolk I took a chance on three full chubbs of white from Matt and Grant. And I was very pleasantly surprised when I sliced open that first one - I like the herbiness and the gentle spiced flavas, and the fat that sits in the end of the chubb is just waiting to spread its unctuousness across my lips. Cooked to a nice brown crisp on each side for texture and served with a fried egg - happy days. But then I got a little snackish one day and partook of a slice of cold (it has been cooked through already, there is no requirement to cook a white dag or a black dag once in your own kitchen). A little slather of one of my homemade ketchups - ahhh, it's what dreams are made of.
Proper dag how it should be
Irrelevant of the taste of this dag, it is made with real blood, not dried blood which in the most has been imported. Dag was always made with fresh blood, hark back to the days of yore when family farms were mixed, a littloe arable for feed for the stock, a couple of pigs to eat the scraps. Slaughtering the pigs was a backyard thing, and the fresh blood would be collected once the pig had been slit and was bleeding out. Having made dag in the past, using the fresh blood from our own pigs, I understand the difference real blood makes to a black dag - it is fresher, cleaner and has a much improved mouth feel, some would say it is creamier and smoother than dried blood dag. Fruitpig have produced a fantastic product, it packs a punchful of spicy goodness (not chilli spice, but good old fashioned spices), giving a nice warm glow and firing you up for the day ahead. One slice of dag and one of the white dag with a fried egg - my new go to breakfast, every single day. No cereal, no milk, just black goodness and a little white goodness for balance weshed down with a good old slug of caffeine. Boom. Get after it folks, it's the law!
Quite simply there best there is!
The Fruitpig Nitrate-free bacon is utterly sublime! There is no watery residue when you cook it and it honestly tastes like no other. We don't bother buying our bacon anywhere else now, as ordering and delivery is so straightforward. We couple this up with slices of Fruitpig Black pudding whenever we feel like a real "Fat Boy brekkie" and the result is true "food therapy"!
Superb Brunch Slice
Just tried the Fruit Pig Co. Brunch Slice for the first time - I think it is simply a wonderful thing, fabulous meaty flavours, with a good texture. Ideal for a breakfast or in deed a brunch-time feast. If you haven't tried it - do so, you will not be disappointed. Absolutely fantastic! F. Fox
Delicious! There is no other
Buyer beware, no other black pudding will do after you try this! The best.
"Delicious" doesn't do it justice.
Highly recommended.
Most efficacious, in every way.
And, nothing more to say!
Heaven on a plate . . .
. . . or sandwich, or whatever.
Not to be missed excellence.
The best tasting bacon, I guarantee.
No Bloody Nonsense (Bloody Tasty)
Excellent balance flavour, Been big fan of black puddings from different butchers over years, Best i've had in long time specially now days.
Brunch (Morning lunch Dinner supper)
This was excellent flavoured, lovely texture and enjoyment to eat!
Black Pudding
This is the king. Sourced eaten raw and cooked. The seasoning is perfect. Won’t find anything better. Thanks the masterminds behind it ????
no white stuff!!
Fried in a dry pan, fat came out, no water or white stuff. It was a nice texture cut to a decent thickness. Unfortunately for me it was too salty. I think my tolerance for salt is decreasing so this may just be me.
OMG
I love it when a gluten free product turns out to be the best I have ever tasted. Amazing stuff, buy lots people!
Black pudding
Just eaten the best black pudding I’ve ever had, thank you Matt and Chris will be stocking up!!
My first GF black pudding
Simply amazing, aromatic and tasty GF treat. Thank you, Fruit Pig
Black Pudding in Lancashire
I recently reviewed your website following my watching an old episode of Jamie's Friday Night Feasts.
I was keen to try your real blood black pudding and was delighted to see that Tom Wood was based in Blackburn near to where I live, and stocks your product.
I bought some black pudding this weekend and felt compelled to drop you a line to say that my husband and myself are totally converted. It was superb and could not be more different to any product we have previously tasted!!!
It was a delight to find your website and subsequently Tom's market stall.
Mighty White
Like every Fruit Pig product that I've sampled, this is exceptional; no ordinary white pudding this. In every sense this is a magisterial pudding - full of flavour and a wonderful texture.
Outstanding product and perfect for our Gluten Free range.
This is a fantastic product and so well balanced in flavour that even people who have previously not liked black pudding enjoy this. Well done Fruit Pig
Outstanding produce. Yum!
We absolutely love everything about Fruitpig. 5 star all the way.
Simply the best
This is quite simple luv the best black pudding I've ever tasted. I keep the freezer stocked!
GF Black pudding
Love it! Tastes so good and I use it instead of naan with my curry ??
White Pudding
Love this, reminds of Scottish 'mealie pudding' Great flavour and texture, not like a lot of liquidy shop bought white puddings which are pretty tasteless. Just ordered some more!
Nitrate free bacon
Great no additive bacon. Makes the crispiest bacon sandwiches and has a lovely taste.
I've just ordered my third pack. ' l think l might be addicted!'
Best black pudding ever
Having tried black pudding from everywhere l have never found a taste that replicated what l remembered from childhood days in Leicesteshire.
Now l have. Fruit Pig make the best black pudding. If you want the real thing you must try this.
Black Pudding
There are many British Black Puddings and I have eaten most of them; Stornoway is good, Bury is quite nice but, none of those approach the soft, delightful creamy joy of the Fruitpig Black Pudding. Further more, if you considered Gluten Free a bit of a fad; try the GF Black Pudding, you can practically pour it over your cereal it's so creamy. Just mind with the cooking! Black pudding is already boiled when you get it so a couple of minutes on each side grilled or fried and you are done. even on thick slices. Over cook it and you have thick slab of MEAT (still superior to most BPs mind) but if you cook it just to crisp the top and bottom then the texture and taste are so good you might just consider taking up Vampirism for a neat fix of the good stuff.
Black pudding
Absolutely delicious! I came across Fruit Pig fresh blood black pudding some time ago and was really taken by the difference in flavour. Other commercial black pudding that you can buy has a dry mealy taste, but this has a light and bright flavour that is almost perfumed.
It freezes well and keeps nicely. My wife is not a fan of black pudding. What a shame! All the more for me!
A true Haggis
I bought a haggis from Fruit Pig at North Creake Farmers Market last Saturday (4 Aug 18). I have always liked haggis but many today are very greasy, not yours. Fruit Pig haggis looked and tasted much meatier than other haggis I've eaten. It had a wonderful peppery tang and the meat content was succulent and flavourful. This is a true Haggis!
Yeah, proper bacon
We eat this every weekend, old school big breakfast. LCHF. Amazing bacon, my husband eats so much that nitrate free made sense. No water or white bubbles come out of this when you cook it, just lovely fat, that i keep and use to cook everything else.
Great flavour
This is amazing, really smooth, no grainyness. Fresh is the best. problem is i now have such high standards! Freezer always full of this!
OMG the smell.....
Wow, what an amazing product, I cooked up a huge batch and froze as slices, a real easy go to for breakfast with an egg on top. Truely awesome.
Black Pudding Nostalgia!
I'd given up buying modern black puddings, as they were universally bland and a pale imitation of he puddings of my youth. That was until I read an article explaining why they were so tasteless. 95% of puddings are now made with imported, dried pig's blood. I then discovered the Fruit Pig and received my first order last week - black puddings, morcilla and the intriguing 'mutton bacon'!
My first recipe was for black pudding Scotch Eggs (River Cottage recipe). An absolute delight and also enjoyed by my carnivorous partner (steak tartare with raw egg type of lady!) and importantly by my 92 year old mother (a tripe and onions type of lady). She declared them to be as good as they used to be.
Not yet tried the morcilla or 'bacon', but will definitely order more puddings.
You've got to try this!
Mutton Pancetta - wha? Try it. You won't be disappointed. It adds a bit of pizzazz to many a meal!
White pudding is a revelation
Didn't know white pudding was a thing until we tried in the selection pack. It's really very, very good.
From a Lancashire Lad
I grew up in Lancashire in the 1950s and 60s and one of my early memories is of Oldham's Tommyfield Market, a genuine old fashioned outdoor market. There were several stalls that sold black pudding and it was a common sight to see people eating it as they walked around the market. It had an almost creamy texture and was not over seasoned. Today's black puddings, even the so called ‘Award Winning' ones, are a pale shadow of that, I suspect because of food safety laws that mean most black pudding is produced from blood powder that comes from so many sources that nobody can attest to its provenance. The Fruit Pig Fresh Blood Black Pudding is, without doubt, the best I have ever tasted by a country mile. It has that creamy texture I remember along with a taste that just bursts with flavour without having any one key ingredient dominating. If you love good food you really must try this black pudding: you will not regret it, I promise.
Black pudding bonbon heaven
I have never tasted a black pudding like it- fantastic...this is not like any black pudding you've ever tasted. Even if you think you don't like black pudding you have to try this one.
Delicious
Incredibly good. I usually like my Irish puds, mostly oatmeal, minimal meat taste; but for a traditional crumbly English pudding this is by far the best I've ever tasted. Surprisingly sophisticated and powerful flavours. Brilliant stuff. Mouth watering anticipation.
Black pudding bonbon heaven
I have never tasted a black pudding like it fantastic. I've not been a big lover of the black pudding but this is not like any black pudding you've ever tasted. Even if you think you don't like black pudding you have to try this one.
Amazing... amazing.... amazing
Nothing compares to this..thank god for Fruit Pig...the king of black pudding...will be back for more and we're spreading the word!
What have I been eating all these years?
Simply the BEST. If you think you like Black Puddings...try the real thing. What have I been eating all these years?...These are far beyond any other Black Pudding I've had. Soft, moist, with subtle hints of spice..very Moorish indeed.
Unreal...
This is something else. Soft, moist, with a hint of fruit and pepper and a delicate aftertaste leaving me wanting more. In a very small way it reminded me of haggis?
Sorry if this haggis reference offends anyone, but this black pudding needs to be tried by all.
Wow
I am now a true convert to Real Blood Black Pudding. It is exceptionally tasty, crumbly not fatty and with the real amount of spices. It shows by using all local items we can make a better product than a mass-produced one.
Fresh black pudding
My fresh black pudding arrived today-not disappointed, the best I've tried and I've tried a lot will definitely be buying more.
Anger turns to pleasure
Well, I saw the tv show and at 70 years of age, having enjoyed black pudding all my life, I could not believe it was probably not being made with local produce and real blood. To hear it was made with imported dried blood...made my blood boil (forgive the pun).
So I purchased the real thing...and have discovered quite simply the best black pudding I have ever eaten.
A lovely blend of herbs and spices with a gentle peppery finish. Smooth, juicy and full bodied, it really is a quality product.
Needless to say, I have ordered some more from the boys at Fruit Pig.
Highly recommended.
Delicious
This Black Pudding is Fantastic.
Full of flavour and so Juicy!
Not only do our customers love it, but more importantly I get to eat it whenever I want, which is all the time.
Fab!
This is the third year I am ordering a Turkey Crown and everyone who has eaten it has said it the very best Christmas Dinner they have had (and it is really easy to carve!)
Very tasty bacon
I bought a pack of streaky from Porkstock this weekend and made breakfast on Sunday. It was great with a bit of maple syrup and a pancake or two
Definitely superior
We do breakfasts in our village hall on the first Sunday of every month, where we often serve more than 80, and have tried several different black puddings over the last 2 years. We served yours last Sunday and everyone said that it was definitely the best. We have tried many different black puddings, in particular from Scotland and Cumbria, but yours surpassed them all. Since doing breakfasts our sales of black pudding have soared, I expect because many people had never tried it before, or perhaps had eaten nasty cheap versions, and did not realise how good it can be. I work in the kitchen and us cooks and washer uppers were especially lucky as we were able to eat many small pieces of black pudding throughout the morning - and that was before we all sat down to our large breakfast. So, you are definitely onto a winner.
Abso-bloomin-lutely delicious!
Having searched for some good old tasty traditional sausages we tried these on the BBQ. They were absolutely delicious - tasty, meaty, packed with flavour, juicy and frankly the best sausages I think we've ever had!! We'll be back for more :-)
Fruit Pig Company - Rare Breed Pancetta-wrapped, Stuffed Tenderloin
Ordered two recently, one as per your recipe and one stuffed with your black pud recipe. Served four good eaters and finished it cold with cheese and pickles next day. Delicious and dead easy to cook as its fully prepared. Also order some of your chipolata's and of course black pud, again delicious, best black pud I've found in England. Finally very well packaged for delivery and on time.
A "hearty" beakfast!
Couldn't resist, had my Valentine Breakfast in January. Fabulous. Say it with heart-shaped black pud.
Splendid Black Pudding
Had several packs of these last Christmas and plan to do the same again this year. The only trouble is making sure enough are left to make it to the table.
Superb meat - best crackling ever
Slow cooked this wonderful slab of meat with maple syrup, shredded root ginger, black pepper, chilli and garlic. The meat is so good that you don't have to worry about it drying out and the skin turns to wonderful crackling but unless you really overdo the heat doesn't burn. The flavour, tenderness and texture is just great. I'm very carniverous and eat all sorts of game, organic and free range meat, but this IS the best pork I've ever tasted and beats any other meat I've tried. Matt is a prince among pork producers and butchers.
Best ever
Best ever Morcilla, Serve plain with a poached egg for an iron rich brek or, with toasted hazelnuts, burrata and green leaves with a proper french dressing. DELISH
Bags of flavour
This is the best black pudding I have tasted outside Spain. It's fruity and spicy and full of flavour. Lovely baked with rice and chickpeas.
Simply the Best.
Never before have I attempted to eat an entire log of Black Pudding until I tried this one.
The magical blend of herbs and spices (something even The Colonel would be most proud of) that makes it most amazingly moorish and moist.
Something about the fresh blood that creates a moorish mouthfeel of almost smoothness and perhaps even a haggisy hint...
Doesn't need to be played around with in the kitchen, fry quickly to keep crisp and try not to eat the lot!!
Recommended *****
I didn't think they still made bacon like that!! Sausages are cracking as well.
Olé!
So happy to have found one of my favourite foods. Nice. Very nice.
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