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What Are Faggots?

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Smudger said:
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.
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Morturn said:
There was a ‘pork butcher’ in a tiny shop opposite the Red Lion, Station Road Erdington. He made his own faggots and boiled ham, wonderful stuff.

I mention this as I find the concept of a pork butcher interesting, only selling pork products.
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Strange but my Dad was reminiscing on Wednesday about his Mom telling the butcher she wouldn't be buying meat (from him) at the weekend as she was having pork. The pork came from a pork butcher - on the Alum Rock Road
 
Squid is sold and eaten by many people in the UK, it is usually called disguised as calamares or another obscuring name. It is something they ate whilst on holiday in southern Europe (Spain, Greece, etc.) and know treat it as part of their 'continental/good life Mediterranean' diet. Octopus is often on the menu in expensive restaurants.
These things are usually washed down, I am told, with some of the heavily promoted wines found in quantity in UK supermarkets (from the wine lakes? :laughing:) that happen to be the fashion of the day. Currently it is prosecco , a fizzy drink (might as well drink lemonade as far as I am concerned :D ). A few years ago it was Beaujolais nouveau - that was at least, a decent wine.
 
The squid/octopus thing to me is all down to how it is cooked. I've had deep fried squid rings coated in batter that to my opinion are comparable to chewing an elastic band:worried: I've also eaten octopus tentacles gently cooked in white wine and garlic that are very tender and taste heavenly.:D
One thing I wouldn't even try is an oyster!
 
Radiorails said:
These things are usually washed down, I am told, with some of the heavily promoted wines found in quantity in UK supermarkets (from the wine lakes? :laughing:) that happen to be the fashion of the day. Currently it is prosecco , a fizzy drink (might as well drink lemonade as far as I am concerned :D ). A few years ago it was Beaujolais nouveau - that was at least, a decent wine.
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As far as i`m concerned red wine is only fit for putting on fish n chips. I much prefer white wines especially the sweet ones ,Moscato d`asti. But you know what they sat Alan, if we all liked the same things the world would be a boring place (but probably cheaper )
 
maypolebaz said:
I spotted Brain's faggots in our local Waitrose. They're now branded
"Mr Brain's".
I'd love a basinful but She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed won't have them in the house.
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me and my dog eat them every fortnight. i dont think squid or octopus would be very nice with mushy peas
 
jmadone said:
The squid/octopus thing to me is all down to how it is cooked. I've had deep fried squid rings coated in batter that to my opinion are comparable to chewing an elastic band:worried: I've also eaten octopus tentacles gently cooked in white wine and garlic that are very tender and taste heavenly.:D
One thing I wouldn't even try is an oyster!
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Oyster are an aphrodisiac, i ate two once but only one worked. Faggots & oysters, yummy!
 
I think some of it is also psychological, jmadone! I won't touch squid, octopus, mussels, whelks, snails, cuttlefish - but will eat most fish, prawns, lobster (but darned expensive now anywhere). I don't much like swordship - too oily.

Pete,

The lambs are lovely, but very mischievous. When the grass in our garden is short enough, we will let one of our neighbours tether a mother sheep in our garden. One or two lambs are then left to run free as they don't tend to run out into the road. However, the lady next door has a well in her garden in which we have a legal 50% stake, although we don't make use of it, and we have a dropped section of wall to allow access. Whilst the lambs don't go out into the road, they do hop into next door via this dropped wall and reek havoc with some of her vegetables As soon as we spot them, we have to stick a load of brushwood in the gap to defeat their little game! As soon as mother sheep has realised they have gone walkabout, she's bleating away like mad!

Maurice :)
 
sospiri said:
I think some of it is also psychological, jmadone! I won't touch squid, octopus, mussels, whelks, snails, cuttlefish - but will eat most fish, prawns, lobster (but darned expensive now anywhere). I don't much like swordship - too oily.

Pete,

The lambs are lovely, but very mischievous. When the grass in our garden is short enough, we will let one of our neighbours tether a mother sheep in our garden. One or two lambs are then left to run free as they don't tend to run out into the road. However, the lady next door has a well in her garden in which we have a legal 50% stake, although we don't make use of it, and we have a dropped section of wall to allow access. Whilst the lambs don't go out into the road, they do hop into next door via this dropped wall and reek havoc with some of her vegetables As soon as we spot them, we have to stick a load of brushwood in the gap to defeat their little game! As soon as mother sheep has realised they have gone walkabout, she's bleating away like mad!

Maurice :)
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they are loverly.but i hate them bloody crows.they are like vultures.waiting. to get the bits.when the lamb is born
 
Radiorails said:
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.
Any one remember Al K. Traz? (Ted Ray is a clue ) :laughing:
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Now I remember Al, the character had a Yank accent. The name of the show he was in is a challenge but I've got a feeling it might've been "Ray's a laugh".
(My brain hurts !).
 
Your memory of this programme is better than mine mate.
There was another character on the show with a strange speech impediment but although us kids used to try and impersonate it at the time, his name has gone.
(Did you catch my query on the Barrage balloon thread ?)
Over !
 
maypolebaz said:
Your memory of this programme is better than mine mate.
There was another character on the show with a strange speech impediment but although us kids used to try and impersonate it at the time, his name has gone.
(Did you catch my query on the Barrage balloon thread ?)
Over !
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Maybe that was Funf the spy? The show ran for a long time and over the period most of the well known comedians and impressionists of the day appeared on it.
 
Radiorails said:
Maybe that was Funf the spy? The show ran for a long time and over the period most of the well known comedians and impressionists of the day appeared on it.
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Funf has vanished into the mists of time for me. The only character with a German accent, that I can recall, was the dachshund that knocked about with Larry the Lamb !
 
If I can get back a little to the topic of this thread. The best know pork butchers that I remember were Marsh and Baxters of Brierley Hill who had a chain of shops.
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Radiorails said:
There a few references to Marsh & Baxter shops on BHF.
Another well known company was Palethorpes who were also based in the Black Country at Tipton at one time.
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My introduction to faggots one dinnertime coming in from school St Peters on Broad St , my dinner was put in front of me, while chomping the faggots down I asked what they were as they had been mashed , sausage meat came the reply . Having finished a really enjoyable meal , my Mother and elder Sister informed me that I'd eaten faggots . I had refused faggots on earlier occasions because I didn't like the look of them . I've had no problem eating them from that day to this
 
DavidGrain said:
If I can get back a little to the topic of this thread. The best know pork butchers that I remember were Marsh and Baxters of Brierley Hill who had a chain of shops.
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(picture from Black Country Living Museum)
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Fetching errands for the neighbours in the late 50's early 60's . I used to go to Salisbury's the butchers on Broad St facing Sheepcote St . One of the ladies there, a Mr's Dearlove took a shine to me after I'd paid for the neighbours meat , my little parcel appeared this consisted of a couple of sausage a rasher or two of bacon , and some of the offcuts off a ham that they cut off to get a regular slice plus a bag of scratching . That was my favourite butcher , after some months as well as my parcel the good lady gave me a kodak brownie 127 camera her son had finished with it
 
Williamstreeter said:
Fetching errands for the neighbours in the late 50's early 60's . I used to go to Salisbury's the butchers on Broad St facing Sheepcote St . One of the ladies there, a Mr's Dearlove took a shine to me after I'd paid for the neighbours meat , my little parcel appeared this consisted of a couple of sausage a rasher or two of bacon , and some of the offcuts off a ham that they cut off to get a regular slice plus a bag of scratching . That was my favourite butcher , after some months as well as my parcel the good lady gave me a kodak brownie 127 camera her son had finished with it
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Hope the ham was not in the same bag as the rest or perhaps they did not know about not mixing cooked and raw meats in those days.
 
Village and small places had wonderful shops - I am sure I have seen some of them in Birmingham suburbs on BHF - where all sorts of things were sold cheek by jowl. Sliced boiled ham, needles, wellington boots, buckets and so on. And today we thing the supermarkets sells lots of things.
And the nice thing about them they were always a pleasure to visit and your knew Mr, Arkwright who owned the place. ;)
 
Of course you can become vegetarian and still eat faggots, go two thirds Vegan, mashed potatoes, peas and faggots.
Bob
 
DavidGrain said:
Hope the ham was not in the same bag as the rest or perhaps they did not know about not mixing cooked and raw meats in those days.
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No David they were probably a bit more savvy then than they are nowadays even with all the technology they have today , at least you were not picking up the papers to read who had cleanliness warnings or had been closed down by the public health dept like we are today .
 
My mother worked for Marsh & Baxter in Dale End for 40 years .And bought home Faggets every other weekend.As someone asked Faggots were small Haggis
 
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