Tell me this is a joke, Brits

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It's apparently some kind of pork meatball. The whole site is a laugh, but here is the text from the homepage:

"Mr Brain's is all about traditional, no fuss food.

We pride ourselves on using the finest pork and pork liver for our faggots, topped with a generous serving of delicious West Country sauce. It's no wonder 100 million faggots are eaten in the UK every year!

Mr Brain's family grocery business was founded in 1898 by Herbert Hill Brain. In 1925 the young Mr Brain introduced the now legendary 'Mr Brain's Pork Faggots'.

Today Mr Brain's Faggots are still a firm family favourite, and a traditional part of the British way of eating.

So, take a look around our site for some great recipe ideas, some tasty news, or simply let us know why you love Mr Brain's Faggots so much."

i was deeply impressed by the Doody family. faggot fanatics , those doodys.

Yeah, the Doody family...I am absolutely convinced that this is a joke, but I'd like some Brits to confirm it.

From Google--the details.




Faggots in Gravy
Faggots
People tend to love or hate faggots, but freshly made in faggot gravy bare little resemblance to their distant cousins you may have seen in the deep freeze at your local supermarket.

They take 50 minutes to prepare, and about two hours to cook, serves four.

Ingredients:

1 pigs liver - diced
1 pigs heart - diced
6 rashers streaky bacon - cut into strips
250g pork belly - diced
2 medium sized onions - peeled and sliced
1 egg
100g breadcrumbs
2 tsp of finely chopped fresh sage
salt and pepper to taste
a large knob of butter

Method:

Melt the butter in a large heavy based oven proof pan, add half the sliced onion and cook over a moderate until the onion softens.

Gradually add all the meats, stir for a few minutes then add enough water to cover the ingredients, leave uncovered and put in the middle shelf of the oven at 190oC for 50 minutes.

Remove from the oven, drain the liquid (to make the gravy), mince the meats and onion with the remaining onion, egg, breadcrumbs, 1 tsp of sage and salt and pepper, mix well and form into faggot sized balls.

Place the faggots into a greased baking tray and add enough of the reserved liquid to just cover the base of the tray. Cook for about 40 minutes at 200oC on the middle shelf.

In the meantime use the rest of the reserved liquid to make some gravy.

Five minutes before the faggots are cooked add the gravy to the tray and cook on the stove getting as much of the meat juices into the liquid.

Serve whilst piping hot with mashed potatoes and peas pudding, garnish with the remaining sage.

http://www.yourcounty.co.uk/you/archive/recipes/faggots.html

So it is true.

You can get them at that good Brit butcher on the Danforth.
A friend's mum buys them for her when she needs comfort food.
They're not bad.

Hmm. Well, the site is still funny as hell. I guess I just always called them meatballs.

BLAAACCCHHH, this is some vile ****.

You're not eating a Mr. Brain's pork faggot right now, are you?

From their News Page...

26/01/03 National Faggot Week The first ever National Faggot Week starts on the 26th January ! Seven days of nationwide faggot promotions, competitions and sampling. The Mr Brain's Roadshow will call at five locations across the country. Check out the dates below and come along between 11am and 4pm to meet the team, and taste Mr Brain's Faggots.

I still want proof that the family's last name is really 'Doody'

Which one is Howdy?

[The Doody] Family of faggot fans fly the flag


Faggots, btw, are thought to be of Roman origin - you find similar recipes all over (by the Romans conquered) Europe .... and haggis in Scotland :wink:

"Faggots were called "savoury ducks" in the Middle Ages"

The truer this gets, the more I laugh.

Tell me about it.
That BBC article Walter linked in is priceless.

My bro PMd me the original link and I can't help myself! It's too damned funny. Walter's link was indeed priceless.

From freesearch.co.uk's dictionary:


faggot (FOOD)

noun {C usually plural} UK


a ball of meat mixed with bread and herbs, which is fried or cooked in sauce

General, the funny thing is the family name of doody. In my neck of the woods doody is synonymous with ****.

Anyway, look at the ingredients of that thing, of course I eat scrapple crisply fried and covered with blackstrap molasses.
Now Im hungry .