# "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:** 5
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/81 "2003-04-28T17:27:29Z")
“Mr. Brain’s Faggots.” I think that came on right after “Miss Ever’s Boys.” I think maybe she got her boys from Mr. Brain? I dunno. ---
**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, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/82 "2003-04-28T17:43:38Z")
“It also takes a great number of faggots to satisfactorily make a dike.” . . . A _great_ many. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Marko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/58956e/32.png) [@El\_Marko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Marko)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/83 "2003-04-28T17:47:08Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cjhoworth \* > \*\*…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 \*\* I would have been absolutely stunned if I had gotten to the end of this thread without someone mentioning spotted dick. Glad to see you’re keeping the discussion elevated to its usual standards **CJ**. 😉 BTW, what the heck is toad-in-the-hole? Or don’t I want to know? [hijack]Personally I enjoy a bit of the haggis now and again, but that’s just me and not really germaine (no, not Jackson!) to the current topic.[/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/84 "2003-04-28T18:11:27Z")
Spotted Dick? Sounds more like a disease than a food. Also, I’m intrigued…what the fuck is Toad-In-The-Hole (and is there an age limit at which you’re allowed to eat it? Exactly what is in Haggis? ---
**Author:** ![Homebrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Homebrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homebrew)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/85 "2003-04-28T20:29:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lachesis \* > \*\*… amused by running the mouse rapidly back and forth across the links \*\* I did that too. ---
**Author:** ![psychomonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@psychomonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychomonkey)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/86 "2003-04-29T04:35:48Z")
According to the bottom commercial (with the pandas) apparently when Lingling has a problem with his pandahood, he turns to the…aphrodesiac power of Faggots. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/87 "2003-04-29T06:20:20Z")
In a related story, the spokesman for the Welsh branch of PETA today apologized for his remarks last week praising American Reverend and political activist, Fred Phelps. “We were misled by the title of Mr. Phelps’ website. We thought he was taking a principled stand against the meatpacking industry,” said Mr. Cromarty, in a news conference. “There was a lot of room for misunderstandings.” When contacted for his views on Mr. Cromarty’s statement, Mr. Phelps commented, “Get off my phone, you damned Euro-Queers!” before discharging a firearm into the receiver. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/88 "2003-04-29T08:10:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\*Spotted Dick? Sounds more like a disease than a food. \*\* No, but it’s heart-attack material for sure. Not surprising given that it dates from the times when you needed to get as many cheap calories on the working man’s plate as possible. It’s extremely stodgy and needs lots of hot custard to get it down, but if you were brought up on it you’d never lose the taste 🙂 > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\* Also, I’m intrigued…what the fuck is Toad-In-The-Hole (and is there an age limit at which you’re allowed to eat it? > \*\* It’s yorkshire pudding and sausages (not faggots) baked together. YP, for those who don’t know, is like a kind of oven-baked pancake batter thing, dark golden brown in colour, served as a side dish (and formerly as a starter) with a roast-beef dinner. Again, it was cheap calories: get the family filled up on cheap flour, egg and milk mix, and they won’t want so much of the expensive meat. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > \*\* Exactly what is in Haggis? \*\* You’re happier not knowing :). Think in terms of a sheep’s stomach stuffed with whatever parts of a sheep couldn’t be sold identifiably (and that’s after allowing for heart, liver and kidneys being considered delicacies) plus oatmeal and seasoning. It tastes about a thousand times better than it sounds. Now will you please let us Brits reclaim the word “faggot”? I was brought up on the things and I miss 'em like crazy. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/89 "2003-04-29T10:41:59Z")
Haggis is bloody gorgeous. ---
**Author:** ![Francesca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc348/32.png) [@Francesca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francesca)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/90 "2003-04-29T10:44:28Z")
I like haggis soup. Lovely. ---
**Author:** ![Billdo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/billdo/32/315_2.png) [@Billdo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billdo)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/91 "2003-04-29T11:44:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kalhoun \* > Also, I’m intrigued…what the fuck is Toad-In-The-Hole (and is there an age limit at which you’re allowed to eat it? This question was extensively discussed on the SDMB in a classic thread, where we concluded that it was intimately involved with [Britain’s declaration of war on Hitler in WWII](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49621). ---
**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 29, 2003, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/92 "2003-04-29T12:06:49Z")
The recipes vary greatly but this delicious [Dish shown here](http://www.hwatson.force9.co.uk/cookbook/recipes/meat/toadinhole.htm) is easy and filling, and inexpensive to boot. Not like Yorkshire Pudding is difficult, but the incredible melange of flavors and oral sensations created by placing firm thick juicy long meat sausages in a hot fluffy delicious cradle is really more than I can bear. Then again, maybe this thread is just getting to me. 😃 ---
**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 29, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/93 "2003-04-29T14:54:22Z")
Forgive me for being obvious, but has anyone ever tried Faggot-in-the-Hole … ? ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/94 "2003-04-29T16:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Billdo \* > \*\*This question was extensively discussed on the SDMB in a classic thread, where we concluded that it was intimately involved with [Britain’s declaration of war on Hitler in WWII](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=49621). \*\* Ahem. I brought up the subject of “faggots in gravy” in that thread, and nobody bit. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/95 "2003-04-29T16:16:37Z")
So, English public schools encourage the eating of faggots, and sausages stuck between buns? The double entendres are starting to get awfully thick on the ground around here! ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/96 "2003-04-29T17:31:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by London\_Calling \* > \*\*Forgive me for being obvious, but has anyone ever tried Faggot-in-the-Hole … ? \*\* Otherwise known as “Cottaging Pie”… ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/97 "2003-04-29T22:57:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bifar \* > \*\*BTW, I shouldn’t ascribe too much happy naivety to the Faggots website. Most people in the UK are aware what the word means in the US. I get the impression that the website creators are sniggering into their sleeves. \*\* Sniggering faggots are the _best kind_ of faggots. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > **Since DDG apparently won’t touch this thread with a fourteen-inch pole, here’s some Googling on the subject** You’re a braver man than I. I’d never enter “faggot” into a search engine while I’m here at work. > [@](#): > > _Originally posted by lachesis_ > **… amused by running the mouse rapidly back and forth across the links** > > _Originally posted by Homebrew_ > **I did that too.** Dancing faggots! I think this thread has reached maximum “faggot” density. Does that mean it’ll collapse into a black hole— :eek: Uh, forget I said anything. ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/98 "2003-04-30T11:31:27Z")
faggots are luvverly. Really they are. I like to follow them up with these Poof’s products: [http://www.retailmerchandising.net/candy/daily/news2.asp?a=8](http://www.retailmerchandising.net/candy/daily/news2.asp?a=8) ---
**Author:** ![owlstretchingtime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/958977/32.png) [@owlstretchingtime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/owlstretchingtime)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2003, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/99 "2003-04-30T11:33:36Z")
And I like to sit on these: [http://www.poofchairs.com/poof-chairs/sport-poof.htm](http://www.poofchairs.com/poof-chairs/sport-poof.htm) ---
**Author:** ![aadenny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@aadenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aadenny)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2003, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245/100 "2003-07-28T00:58:22Z")
Faggots are a very popular and traditional English Midlands food, and traditionally served with peas. There was indeed originally a Mr Brain, a hundred years ago, but the brand in question was originally just “Brain’s”. The “Mr” was added to the pack name about a dozen years ago, perhaps to coincide with the rise in squeamishness and vegetarianism. But let it be remembered that for many years Brains Faggots have been factory-made, in vast quantities, and shipped out frozen, and are not representative of the best in faggots, any more than McDonald’s are the best in hamburgers. You will find wonderful home-made faggots in many local Black Country butchers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mr-brains-faggots-leave-me-speechless/171245.md?page=6)