“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.
“It also takes a great number of faggots to satisfactorily make a dike.”
. . . A great many.
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]
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?
I did that too.
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.
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.
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 
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.
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. 
Haggis is bloody gorgeous.
I like haggis soup. Lovely.
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.
The recipes vary greatly but this delicious Dish shown here 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. 
Forgive me for being obvious, but has anyone ever tried Faggot-in-the-Hole … ?
Ahem. I brought up the subject of “faggots in gravy” in that thread, and nobody bit.
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!
Otherwise known as “Cottaging Pie”…
Sniggering faggots are the best kind of faggots.
You’re a braver man than I. I’d never enter “faggot” into a search engine while I’m here at work.
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.
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
And I like to sit on these:
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.