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A
faggot is a kind of
meatball, a traditional dish in the
UK, especially the southwest of
England and
Wales. It is made from meat off-cuts and
offal, especially pork. A faggot is traditionally made from pig heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes breadcrumbs. The mixture is shaped in the hand into balls, wrapped round with
caul (a membrane from the pig's abdomen), and baked. A similar dish,
almôndega, is traditional in Portugal.
The first use in print cited in the
OED is in 1851, from
Thomas Mayhew, although this appears to be a
calzone- or pasty-like dish, with an outer wrapper of caul, covering a filling of mixed pork offal. This was in London.
The dish saw its greatest popularity with the
rationing during World War II but has become less popular in recent years. Faggots are usually homemade and are to be found in traditional
butchers' shops and market stalls.
A popular dish is "faggots and
peas," which is often served with
gravy. The faggot and pea
batch is a common post-pub snack in the
West Midlands. Faggots are also known as "ducks" in
Yorkshire and Lancashire, often as "savoury ducks". "In Leigh market in 1905 you could buy a savoury duck rolled up in an oatmeal cake."
The best-known commercial brand is Mr Brain's Faggots, a
frozen food product available in
Britain and
Ireland, which is made of
liver and
onions rolled into
meatballs and served in a sauce. These faggots differ significantly from the traditional recipe.
Pictures of the product are a popular joke in some Western countries due to
additional meanings of the name. Faggots were used as the subject of an infamous 2004 radio advert by the UK supermarket chain
Somerfield(External Link
). The commercial featured a husband challenging his wife's repetitive routine of a set meal for each day of the week. While he wanted
lasagne, he was told that, as it was Friday, he was to have faggots. He responded: "I've nothing against faggots, I just don't fancy them." This advert was subsequently deemed to have breached the rules on Good Taste, Decency and Offence to Public Feeling of the Advertising and Sponsorship Code, and was banned from future re-broadcast by the industry regulator,
Ofcom.
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