Now, what am I doing, an almost but not quite, vegetarian commenting in a faggots thread? Well it's not from any particular belief that about the only meat I generally eat is chicken breast in one form or another. As a child I tried most things and decided whether they were to my taste or not - and good luck to those that do enjoy such things.
It's only really post-WW2 that the majority of rural Cretans have developed into meat eaters at times other than of celebration.as they simply couldn't afford it.. Of course, now we are in Lent, and most Greeks observe the rule of not eating meat reared on land and instead will opt for either a vegetarian diet or squid or octopus or "little fishes". Personally I am not into eating Squid or octopus either, though I do enjoy prawns every so often. So their diet outside of Lent contains a lot of pork and, at times of celebration, lamb and goat.
As there is very little rain during the summer months when the grass becomes straw, sheep & goats spend those monthe on the higher plateaux where there is more green vegetation, but we have very few cattle here. You can't stick cattle into back of a Toyota pickup and drive them up into the mountains for two or three thousand feet!
But your faggots are my gemista - peppers & tomatoes stuffed with herby rice - gemerally served with roast potatoes or a few chips. I love those. Each to their own & enjoy!
Maurice
I spotted Brain's faggots in our local Waitrose. They're now branded
Meanwhile, back on the subject of faggots..........................
home cooked boiled ham. with a few slivers of onion.no your talking. i would love some proper faggots. them made by bra**s are just meat.
I am sure there is a photo of a pork butcher shop on one of the thread about Aston.
Some years ago we tried a "Black Country" delicacy, or so were were told, Bacon & Pays.
The cans were the standard size not the small ones and the sausages were so closely packed the sides in contact with other sausages were almost flat. Also, the cans contained only sausages nothing else.
Maurice, when i was in Crete i tried squid, & if i hadn`t spat it out after half an hour of chewing i would still be chewing it now. My favourite Greek dish was Stiffado. I would love to be vegitarian but i hate tomatoes, cucumber, zuchini, olives, ingredients that are usually found in vegetarian dishes. This time of the year when i drive past a field with lambs i think, poor little buggers, if only they knew what fate awaits them.Now, what am I doing, an almost but not quite, vegetarian commenting in a faggots thread? Well it's not from any particular belief that about the only meat I generally eat is chicken breast in one form or another. As a child I tried most things and decided whether they were to my taste or not - and good luck to those that do enjoy such things.
It's only really post-WW2 that the majority of rural Cretans have developed into meat eaters at times other than of celebration.as they simply couldn't afford it.. Of course, now we are in Lent, and most Greeks observe the rule of not eating meat reared on land and instead will opt for either a vegetarian diet or squid or octopus or "little fishes". Personally I am not into eating Squid or octopus either, though I do enjoy prawns every so often. So their diet outside of Lent contains a lot of pork and, at times of celebration, lamb and goat.
As there is very little rain during the summer months when the grass becomes straw, sheep & goats spend those monthe on the higher plateaux where there is more green vegetation, but we have very few cattle here. You can't stick cattle into back of a Toyota pickup and drive them up into the mountains for two or three thousand feet!
But your faggots are my gemista - peppers & tomatoes stuffed with herby rice - gemerally served with roast potatoes or a few chips. I love those. Each to their own & enjoy!
Maurice
That space was there to enable you to get a crowbar in to prise the things apart.yer.baz,but why was the middle one removed,from the tin?
These we had were the real McCoy, Baz. I believe they were part of food parcels. My Nanny and I were alone as father was in the Army and mother not around any more. So maybe we qualified - but I can't say, as I was too young to know what the distribution arrangements were besides in those days children were usually only told what they needed to know. Life was simpler then.
