A matter of good taste

Sales of black pudding across the Black Country are on the rise.

The increase in its popularity has been put down to its inclusion on menus at posh restaurants across the region.

One butcher in Dudley has even reported a 50 per cent rise in demand.

Black pudding has in the past remained outside the culinary mainstream – largely because one of its major ingredients is pigs' blood.

But with tastes changing, it now features on the menus at some of the top Midlands eateries.

Video journalist Victoria Hoe visited one Wolverhampton butchers to find out what the public made of the newly-fashionable dish which had its hey-day during and just after the Second World War.