02-04-2018, 03:36 AM
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Junior Master Dwellar
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Buckinghamshire UK
Posts: 4,059
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Going back to Black Puddings (Post #3780 et seq), their uses are many and varied.
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Black pudding saves butcher trapped in freezer
A butcher who became trapped in a walk-in freezer escaped thanks to a frozen black pudding.
Chris McCabe, 70, said he got trapped after the freezer door in his shop in Totnes, Devon, blew shut behind him.
Stranded in temperatures of -20C (-4F), with the door-release button frozen shut, he said he used the 1.5kg (3.3lbs) sausage as a battering ram on the release mechanism.
Mr McCabe said: "No-one could hear me banging. Black pudding saved my life."
'Pointed and weighty'
Upon realising his predicament, Mr McCabe initially thought he "was OK because I could kick the safety button from inside", but "this time it was frozen solid".
Stuck in temperatures capable of killing a human in about an hour, the father-of-four searched frantically for an improvised tool to batter the button.
With the beef too slippery and the lamb too big, he happened on the "best thing" - the black pudding, made by the Queen's butcher HM Sheridan of Ballater, Aberdeenshire, who Mr McCabe has been buying the pudding from for more than 20 years.
He said: "It was the right shape. I used it like the police use battering rams to break door locks in. It was solid, pointed and I could get plenty of weight behind it.
"I'm lucky really. We sell about two or three each week and that was the last one in there."
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