Classic British Faggots

That disgusting. Limeys will eat anything.

Oh sure, when I say it you call out the Klan but when they say it…

Pretty offal.

(Just getting the obvious out of the way)

You laugh and mock (admittedly, quite rightly with that embarrassing name), but well-made faggots are actually very nice!

I enjoy a spotted dick with my faggots.

A Datalounger was in the comments ten months ago...

[quote]Thank you I was 12 when my great aunt born in 1887 talked of faggots how lovely a dish. They had died out by then. It was 1972. So went trough life thinking army faggots as homosexuals was not what a Duchess meant. So imagine my surprise on a trans Atlantic voyage aged 56 a Welsh chef introduced me to Faggots and gravy peas and mashed potato. I was delicious indeed .in South Wales at 60 I bought five trays from local butcher and froze them at home later that evening drive back north to Windermere. I ate half tray of them in caul rather that fat bacon.Thank you for this blog as it reminds me perhaps to have a go at making faggots in my kitchen and mincing meat at home.

[quote]I retired into Europe from Englands high taxation. Here no butcher exists other than in rooms behind meat counters in supermarkets never to be seen. I learned trade years ago on home farm to joint and make good food. Best is to buy meat white fat red blood dark pink pork. Cut into shreds removing the hard skin first. But through a grinder.Hand models are cheap to buy if one can find one .Otherwise Kenwood chef does mine. It is easy to make mistakes we all can at times but making good minced meat is must . Liver added and garlic too little oat meal helps flavour .Roll into balls wrap with thing rashers of bacon and trust me you will never think of a butcher again dear.

Have you tried Mr. Brain's faggots?

With their classic West Country sauce?

Ha. My boyfriend and I just heard this referenced on “It’s a Sin” on HBO and had no idea what it was food-wise.

hello faggot lovers

I thought it was a fried pastry like thing.

Also pronounced "vaggoch".

I guess it is just meat.

[quote] Mum, this one looks like Uncle Roy

Faggots are also ciggie and some kind of fire wood.

I'm British and while I can remember seeing faggots in the supermarket when I was a kid in the 80s, I've never heard of anyone eating them or making them, nor have I ever seen them on a menu. They're not some kind of foodstuff all Brits are knocking back on a daily basis.

Like Spotted Dick - we had it at school but I've never seen it anywhere since.

I make Spotted Dick from scratch in the winter months when there's more than two of us. It's a lovely pudding with hot custard, and you only need a little because it's so filling.

I haven’t seen them in supermarkets for years. They were considered old people’s food even when I was a child, and I’m in my fifties.

R14 Mr. Brain's Pork Faggots are available in Tesco's right now. Surely someone is eating faggots.

R15 It's great comfort food because it's 'nursery food'. I loved it at school but it's not really the common dessert Americans seem to think it is.

Yes, of course, the name is funny but you'll struggle to find it anywhere.

R17 I can only assume it's pensioners. I'm 40 and have never heard anyone say "I had faggots for dinner last night". As I said before, I've seen them in the supermarket but to be quite honest, I've not a clue what they are, have never seen a recipe for them or heard of anyone who actually eats them.

They're the kind of food The Hairy Bikers would 'discover' on one of their regional tours of Britain.

[quote]They're the kind of food The Hairy Bikers would 'discover' on one of their regional tours of Britain.

Et voilà!

R20 haha I knew I'd seen them somewhere before.

I'm surprised they've never tried a rebranding campaign. I seem to remember Tesco's started selling Spotted Richard at some point.

What's offal? Like sweetbreads?

R23 Liver.

They are often a combo of belly, shoulder and liver and when made right are very tasty. A well seasoned meatball wrapped in bacon.

Disgusting

Also, thought they were Welsh.

R5- If I was forced to eat SPOTTED DICK,

I would later be on the toilet doing a lot of

BUBBLE AND SQUEAK

Americans don't do offal. I won't touch organ meats.

Nasty.

R28 you do not speak for an entire continent you wanker.

"Americans don't do offal". You eat it all the time, you just don't know.

That recipe lost me at "pig liver". Pigs literally eat shit. There's no way I'm eating an organ that filtered all the poisons out of the pig's body.

The Brits eat that SLOP because after WW2 they had to endure food rationing until 1955.

Food rationing in the USA ended in 1945/46.

I can assure you, I don't R30. I am very careful of where my food is coming from.

What R31 said and even my MD said something to that effect.

I remember going to a party and the host's Cambodian wife cooking up something for her and her relatives that smelled quite good. When I commented on it, she offered me a bowl and I immediately became suspicious because something was floating in it that looked weird. I asked her what it was and she said it was the lining of the cow's intestines or stomach. I had to politely decline and they all got a good laugh but I just would not.

If you have ever had a hot dog you have eaten awful offal and rate parts.

Elton John

Oh wait, maybe I misunderstood the purpose of this posting.

YOU RANG, MY DEAR?

You're not 'classic', until you've done time for it.

What hot dogs do YOU eat, R35? Obviously not the good ones.

True, Americans eat various forms of offal, we just don't give them incredibly offensive names like that.

Oh, and if you were to go to a restaurant in the US and ask your server if "faggot" was on the menu, you'd be sounding like the next Jeffrey Dahmer.

Never, ever eat hot dogs. Like I said, I'm particular about my meat sources.

Goes for mens too.

Americans hide them under deceptive terms. Don't order sweetbreads in the US and expect a nice bit of cake.

[quote]I asked her what it was and she said it was the lining of the cow's intestines or stomach. I had to politely decline and they all got a good laugh but I just would not.

Tripe? You're a wimp.

Yes tripe R44. Wimp maybe but I'm not eating that shit.

You mean like Baden-Powell?

Larry Grayson. My grandmother loved him and refused to believe he was “one of them”.

R38, Oscar Wilde was Irish.