Indian families recovering from the delights of Diwali and anticipating the joys of Christmas have another hidden surprise awaiting them as the Christian festive season approaches.

Black pudding is as much a part of white British culture as gulab jamuns are for Indians, though few visitors from the subcontinent would recognise it as a seasonal delicacy.

Every winter, a wave of Indian middle-class ambition rolls into London. It drifts along Bond Street, dazzled by fairy lights, past the doormen of Selfridges and the Ritz, Harrods’ glowing façade, and the polished brass of Fortnum & Mason. For many, a London Christmas is the ultimate lifestyle upgrade, the promise of roast turkey, mulled wine and some imagined Dickensian glow of refinement.

Yet a detail the influencers never show you ap

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