Cork's oldest working-class food tradition, pairing cow's stomach lining (tripe) with drisheen, a Cork blood pudding made from sheep's blood and cream, set in a casing.

A 19th-century working-class staple from Cork's North Main Street butcher quarter, drisheen is a blood pudding made from a base of sheep's or cow's blood thickened with milk and oatmeal, sliced and pan-fried alongside boiled tripe. The dish was once sold from carts outside Cork's pubs and at the English Market; rural Munster cottages served it for breakfast. Katherine Fulvio and Darina Allen have championed its survival in print, and O'Reilly's stall at the English Market is now the principal preserver of the tradition, the last full-time drisheen counter in Ireland and producing several dozen kilograms a week.

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