# "Mr. Brain's Faggots" Leave Me . . . Speechless **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 26, 2003, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245 "2003-04-26T02:46:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/61 "2003-04-27T16:33:14Z")
I want some _Rich West Country Sauce_! ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/62 "2003-04-27T18:37:02Z")
Aye, I saw a trailer for the BBC2 documentary that Kal mentioned, about this new PR and advertising campaign. I’ve been aware of Mr Brain’s Faggots for years, though. Never had one myself. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/63 "2003-04-27T20:00:28Z")
Since **DDG** apparently won’t touch this thread with a fourteen-inch pole, here’s some Googling on the subject: [Making Spam into Faggots](http://www.imbetterwithfood.com/amain/zz9faggot.shtml) (a useful skill for Web-literate gays, no doubt) How [Hazel Wattle Products](http://www.hazelwattle.com/hazelfaggots.html) employs faggots [Another recipe](http://www.blunham.demon.co.uk/Yorksgen/Recipes/Meat/). “You will notice this recipe calls for a pig’s caul. Don’t ask. Make the faggots without it.” Is that considered safe in these days of STDs?? :eek: [Over 95% of Brits surveyed approve of Mr. Brain’s Faggots](http://www.ciao.co.uk/Mr_Brains_Pork_Faggots__5303376) [Faggots were always popular back in Welsh history.](http://www.hub-uk.com/tallyrecip01/recipe0010.htm) [Faggots in Print](http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level5.asp?UserType=11&Level5=2191) (The co-author is proprietor of “Grorty Dick’s”.) [Faggots in the Fire](http://www.hobbitcd.com/faggotsinthefire.html) [Another commercial source of faggots](http://www.graigfarm.co.uk/catalog/cat_1_13.htm). (Small faggots cost £7.18 per kilo, large faggots only £6.79 – I would have thought that pricing would be the other way around!) [A review](http://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/leisure/food/display.var.688512.index.faggots_anyone.html). > [@](#): > > Some thought their faggot was good and flavoursome, others found it bland (what on earth do they eat at home?). > > And one polished off the dish with huge relish. “Wonderful,” she cried, “it takes me right back to my childhood.” [British TV host looks into faggots](http://asp.wlv.ac.uk/Level5.asp?UserType=11&Level5=539) > [@](#): > > Black Country hospitality will be on offer with a faggot-tasting session lined up! > > Ghislaine is delighted to be taking part in the filming and said: “We will be discussing faggots and the role they have played in Black Country life and history." [Another faggot review](http://www.dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/food/faggots.htm) > [@](#): > > ‘Here’s a message for Faggot-lovers everywhere.’ … [Faggots] are reasonably tasty, if you keep your eyes closed > … In the national consciousness, Brain’s Faggots are THE faggots, but before I managed to locate a packet I found some other faggots. [Just some pictures of faggots fans](http://www.porkfaggots.com/) [Photos of faggots in natural settings](http://www.watersideuk.com/oldwaterside/river%20faggots.html) > [@](#): > > The faggots have really done there [sic] job well, holding silty material creating a new bank and encouraging good vegetation growth. So that’s what the gardening column in _Southern Voice_ was all about! [PDF file on faggots in civil engineering.](http://www.mmgces.co.uk/acrobat/faggots.pdf) > [@](#): > > Faggots have long been used, in one way or another, for a variety of engineering projects. … Faggots, once placed, have a very long life… This site indicates that the standard British faggot has a 400 mm diameter! [News Article on a “Save the Faggots” Campaign](http://www.thisistheblackcountry.co.uk/the_black_country/archive/2000/08/15/hales_news_daily01ZM.html) > [@](#): > > … Richard James is championing his cause at the forthcoming Walsall Illuminations with the first ever `battle of the Black Country Faggots’. > > … with three categories, including best traditional faggot, most innovative faggot and most original presentation of the faggots… > > Richard said: “With changing tastes, especially among the younger generation, our local dish of faggots and peas is in danger of dying out, which will obviously have a knock-on effect on the people who make them.” > > Comedian Tommy Mundon will judge the competition, along with local faggot experts. > [@](#): > > 1 long faggot = 2 ft. girth x 4 ft. long :eek: (From [here](http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fag)) [Icelandic faggots bought by British firm](http://www.dazbert.co.uk/sites/rudefood/food/faggots2.htm) > [@](#): > > A dedicated journey to the Iceland supermarket yielded this non-PC protein, just as my friend and I were nearing the checkouts and arguing over who should say to the staff, ‘Excuse me, I’m looking for some faggots.’ It was a result, although as you by now know, not the precise result I wanted, for I had my heart surely set on Mr Brain’s tasty balls. _fixed coding_ ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/64 "2003-04-27T20:46:43Z")
As the Ac-Tore said to his Penpal, I’ve only just come across your post … > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > P.S. London\_Calling, I’ll bet the Go Gay laundry was expert at getting that hot, rich faggot sauce out of your clothing . . . Not mine, _dahlinggg_, but I do understand. Fwiw, by the look of some of the seedier regulars at ‘Go Gay’ – who could easily have spent the previous evening showing the entire Viennese Boys Choir how best to sing an octave higher – in their hands, anything was possible … ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2003, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/65 "2003-04-27T21:37:29Z")
My tummy hurts from laughing. I wonder if MY Shop-Rite carries them??? I have to assume there is a simply spectacular protein content per serving??? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/66 "2003-04-28T00:02:02Z")
One of my links gave a nutritional assessment – they’re relatively high in fat (probably don’t spend enough time at the gym). I forebear from linking to Cecil’s comments on a related subject. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/67 "2003-04-28T01:12:50Z")
From the Hazel Faggots site, on the use of wooden faggots: “Faggots are used to re-establish and repair banks, build otter holts and to change the flow characteristics of rivers.” Hmmm . . . I thought that was dikes, not faggots! ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/68 "2003-04-28T09:51:12Z")
The cookbooks my parents brought over from England have recipes for faggots in them. Next time I’m over there, I’ll have to have a look at them and post some information about the recipe. On the otherhand, perhaps I should leave giving instructions on making faggots to the experts around here. 😉 Hmmm. Those cookbooks also have recipes for desserts in them, including Spotted Dick. Anyone up for a rather bizarrely themed dinner party? CJ Whose favorite food is toad-in-the-hole ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 10:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/69 "2003-04-28T10:26:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kal \* > There was a documentary on BBC2 about this ad campaign. The show is called “Trouble at the top”, you can read about the campaign’s background [here.](http://www.bbc.co.uk/business/programmes/trouble_top/current.shtml) That’s were I got the original info about faggots from. The show was very funny to my childish mind 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/70 "2003-04-28T12:03:12Z")
I’m just wondering if they also make **Brain’s Salad** to eat with their faggots. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/71 "2003-04-28T13:39:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > \*\*CJ, Whose favorite food is toad-in-the-hole \*\* Oh, save a space for me at your table please? I adore toad-in-the-hole. Had it made for me by this delightful gentleman- English of course- who was the former headmaster of a school in Manhatten. It is indeed the perfect food. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/72 "2003-04-28T13:45:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Those cookbooks also have recipes for desserts in them, including Spotted Dick. Anyone up for a rather bizarrely themed dinner party? YES! Yes yes yes yes yes!! _hyperventilates_ ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/73 "2003-04-28T15:13:17Z")
Along with the faggots and spotted dick, we should serve some [Pecker](http://engrish.com/snacks/source/pecker.html) and some [Woodies](http://engrish.com/chocolate/source/woody.html). ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/74 "2003-04-28T15:34:17Z")
> [@](#): > > _ **Eve** observed_: > From the Hazel Faggots site, on the use of wooden faggots: “Faggots are used to re-establish and repair banks, build otter holts and to change the flow characteristics of rivers.” > > Hmmm . . . I thought that was dikes, not faggots! As I understood it, the old civil engineers in England, who were mostly male, were taught in school to use faggots whenever they felt a danger of damage through hydraulic pressure. Attempting to erect a dike, on the other hand, was a last-resort technique, fraught as it was with the possibility of catastrophic failure. The reference says that successfully making a dike involves great attention to the outlying breastworks. It also takes a great number of faggots to satisfactorily make a dike. American engineers, though, must belong to a different school of thought. My Google search turned up a large number of sites which objected strenuously to faggots, some even feeling them to be forbidden by the Bible. It’s possible that unscrupulous faggot-makers have contributed to this dislike, since several sites complained of “diseased faggots” that the writer felt endangered the community. One man in particular had a very valid complaint: he had repeatedly encountered what he referred to as “pansy faggots.” And while those flowers are beautiful and hardy, their stems are hardly suitable for insertion into strong faggots, even in quantity. This is, of course, a hijack into the erection of faggots along river banks, not the balls which the OP was making reference to, and I do apologize for the change of topic. ---
**Author:** ![London\_Calling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@London\_Calling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/London_Calling)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/75 "2003-04-28T15:58:41Z")
\*\*Eve’s \*\* post reminds me of the ideal accompaniment for this dinner party: [Drink it down !](http://www.northcastle.com/woodpecker.html) ---
**Author:** ![lachesis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@lachesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lachesis)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/76 "2003-04-28T15:59:50Z")
at Mr. Brain’s, when you touch any of the site links (which are shaped like…meat balls), they… bounce. _aaiiiieee_ :eek: actually, the Faggot Stuffed Peppers recipe looks like something i can adapt using plain ol’ frozen meatballs. lachesis who is both horrified and amused by running the mouse rapidly back and forth across the links ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/77 "2003-04-28T16:27:35Z")
I can’t help but think of some guys with the munchies… “Hey man, let’s go eat some faggots!” “I’m down with that…I hope they have rich gravy.” Later… “Hey, man…save me a faggot.” or “Don’t hog the faggots, dude.” The classic" Don’t bogart that faggot, my friend" ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/78 "2003-04-28T16:27:43Z")
Faggots aren’t much different from cheap American style Itallian Meatballs. They use up lots of the stronger tasting meat (liver heart tongue …) and are enjoyed by those who like their meat extra-meaty. Myself I don’t like the taste of liver so don’t enjoy them. The rich gravy and fagot combo with mashed potatoes is great if you like strong meats, and it’s lesser cousin bangers in rich gravey with mashed potatoes is great. Strangely enough such food is popular in English Private schools. Private education teaches the art of eating hot rich faggots. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/79 "2003-04-28T16:39:03Z")
And they’ve already [taken to the air](http://airzone.skreel.org/aircrafts/MIG-15-uk.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/80 "2003-04-28T16:57:51Z")
I can’t believe we missed [National Faggot Week](http://www.mrbrainsfaggots.com/news.htm)! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245.md?page=5)