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Here is your “Thursday Fun Link,” an article about the Doodys, a Family of Faggot Fans. Our favorite sentence: “The competition was organised by faggot producer Mr Brain’s Faggots.” [BBC]
THURSDAY FUN LINK
What?
Proof that Brits are the funniest bunch around.
The only thing better would be if the product’s name was Dirty Sanchez.
Everytime I have eaten a faggot from the Black Country it has resulted in Doody.
Okayyyy! I had to look it up. From Wikipedia (where else?):
“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.
Offal. Yum.
Mr. Brains - We’ve got what faggot fans crave.
Sigh…those poor kids…
From the Faggot Facts: Faggots were originally made with pig’s liver and offal
Yum?
My favorite quote:
“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.”
I guess if you’re going to eat a faggot, you might as well use the skin to make a belly muff. It’s like Native Americans and the buffalo!
TGY: You beat me.
I want to see them go toe-to-toe with Fred Phelps.
The Doody boy looks like he realizes exactly how his ass will be kicked when he goes back to school this fall.
Heh. Doody.
You know, there are some days that are worth getting up for more than others. This article is one of the better reasons to believe in the basic goodness of man. No pun intended. (Or maybe intended. I don’t know.)
“The family, including Lewis, 13, and Grace, 7, eat faggots twice a week, with mashed potato and mushy peas”. If this story came out of Mississippi it would be way more interesting.
I never realized how well alliteration and homophobia could work together.
Huzzah!
Damn… speechless… but lmao!!!!
“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.”
…those sashes are FUKKIN EPIC!!!!
Black Country Faggots get no respect in the States.
The son on the right’s expression is saying, “Get me the bloody hell away from these faggots! I’m begging you!”
Spence: Gah! Beat me to it!
But I have to wonder why there’s no campaign for spotted dick? Also an unappreciated British dish.
…by the looks on all of their faces, I think the son is the only one who get the irony! Poor guy!
Hearing; “The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year,” Ted Haggard just booked two tickets to Heathrow, to celebrate his graduation! And I apologize in advance for this whole thread.
Should that be “Fly the Rainbow Flag?”
tunamelt: Oh, but you have to include the whole litany of the “Fagggot Facts” in the article:
“Faggots were called “savoury ducks” in the Middle Ages
Faggots were named after the Latin word for bundle
Faggots were originally made with pig’s liver and offal
Faggots are now made from pork liver and pork
Fans have published the Good Faggot Guide”
Look at the son. He knows the score. He knows people like us are going to be laughing at this picture for the next 100 years.
That poor little girl, though, hasn’t got a clue.
ronaldpagan: GOD HATES YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS!
Somebody should write a history of teh “Faggots.”
tunamelt: We must also mention “bangers and mash” here I think…
Actually, I could go for some bangers and mash.
I thought if you were a homo in England, you were a poofter. Or maybe a ginger.
How about a few bangers with some faggots, followed up with some spotted dick?
How is the BBC not aware of this though? You wouldn’t see an American family going on and on about saving some pastry called a “poofter.”
ronaldpagan: This quote was real, by the by.
tunamelt: Luck, of course.
Is that why Archie Bunker called Meatball “half a fag?”
He was only showing his intercontinental knowledge. Poor, misunderstood guy.
“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year,”
Why can I only think of George Michael singing “Last Christmas” after reading this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronbassett/2220459531/
So it’s basically haggis, except made from pigs instead of sheep?
Are those microwavable faggots?
This must be what it is like to work in John McCain’s campaign offices. “Hey have you guys seen these dancing hampsters? HILARIOUS!”
If your last name is “Doody”, you’ve pretty much lost the dignity battle anyway, so go ahead, endorse a line of personal vibrators, enemetics, buttplugs, or whatevs.
Elitist Republican Tard: I see the faggots come with a full set.
MARCdMan: And no stomach, I think. The English will eat anything.
Trouble with eating a faggot is you want another one a half hour later. I like mine with cream sauce and slammed down my throat real hard. Sometimes it’s hard to breathe but it’s worth it.
The british eat faggots, we have the super tuber…two peoples separated by gay food dishes.
TGY: It sounded much mroe appetizing when I thought it meant consentual sodomy.
This BBC headline would make a good t-shirt…can CNN pick up on this story, plz?
Doglessliberal: Haha savoury ducks, as in “That Charlie Crist is a real savoury duck.”
The Good Faggot Guide:
Good faggots: Oscar Wilde, Kanye West, John Waters, Abe Lincoln, all gay Wonkette commenters
Bad faggots: Charlie Crist, Alan Keyes, Ted Haggard, Fred Phelps, Mark Foley
Another great CNN headline shirt.
So let me get this straight. TruckNutz in British is LorryFaggotz?
The news article is from 2003… that means that poor 13-year old pictured is now 18. Being Britain, this means he can legally drink away his embarassment now. Let’s hope, for his sake, anyway.
ronaldpagan: Well, we have fanny packs, and fanny means vagina across the pond. They call them “bum bags” instead.
This article reads as if it were written by Dr. Tobias Fünke.
Dr. StrangeCock: Who doesn’t like a banger in the mouth?
ronaldpagan:
Bad Faggot: Larry Craig, Roy Cohn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn and http://www.sohoblues.com/SoHoBlues/previewpages/preview51.jpg
“Bad” Faggot: Any sub faggot to his dom (as in “ooooh, you’ve been a bad, bad faggot. You must be punished!”)
Cicada: they really need to learn to speak English over there
1980s Faggot advert
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y136zBVjBg&feature=related
mmmmmm… faggots
Does Mr. Doody the faggot lover happen to work…. as a fudge packer? Pleeease?
I hear that the faggot is best eaten standing up, preferably with a wide stance.
ManchuCandidate: Win.
iwillsavethispatient:
My money says that he cast himself into the Irish Sea a few years ago.
When I miss your lips, I’ll put a fag in my mouth and think of you.
Sigh, that movie needs to come out.
British people also call cigarettes fags. Can I bum a fag? I’m gonna go smoke a fag. I need to find a pack of fags.
Yeah, awesome.
Also, “fanny” means vagina in Britain, and it’s a somewhat vulgar term over there. I had a Scottish girlfriend a while back and she came over for a visit. During said visit, my step-mom found some comment I made disagreeable and exclaimed “[Premise of my comment] my fanny!” My ex nearly wet herself.
this is not shameless butt kissing (speaking of fannies, bums, and faggots), but I was just struck with how great Wonkette is. Both the postings and the comments are just uniformly great and smart and fun to read. Thanks commenters and Wonkette editors for not letting this become a Washington-Post-political-blog-commenter-filled hell.
Faggot Haggis… Biggus Dickus… You can’t write this stuff.
WadISay: “We in the Doody family just love to eat faggots. They are toe-tappingly delicious!”
Rodney Badger:
Or, my favourite quote, “My breath stinks from sucking on fags all day.”
Deepthroat: Make fun of the Brits all you want, but at least the faggots in question serve a useful purpose…..not like American cornholing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io8X4pz_QJ0
British people know both meanings of “faggot” I assure you… I suspect the Beeb’s web news department just tries to see what ridiculous headline they can put up without anyone complaining.
In evidence, I give you this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7390109.stm
Doglessliberal: awww….shucks…..(absent mindedly kicks pebbles on groung)
Common usage or not, next time some Brit tells me he has to masticate his faggots, I will probably blow lunch all over him.
Dr. StrangeCock:
I prefer to read it in the voice of Mrs. Featherbottom.
Wow, this has got to be the British Onion
WadISay: Though there probably is a gay cannibalism fetish site out there somewhere. I am NOT doing a search to confirm that, however. I’ll leave that to Dan Savage for column research.
The Seattle pride parade is this weekend. Damn I wish I could get my hands on one of those sashes. They’re more queer than a box of birds.
Poor Lewis. Entering adolescence, but being saddled with a humorous and somewhat scatological surname, he surely resolved to live a quiet, humble existence of restrained dignity.
…His family does what now?
Rodney Badger:
Big Keith: “Over there, ‘fanny’ means your bum… not your minge… “
iwillsavethispatient: Yeah, now that’s a headline tee I would buy!
Botswana Meat Commission FC:
Maebe and I would prefer if you’d call her “Mrs. Fingerbottom”.
ronaldpagan: A new epithet. Brilliant!
seriously, did no one see the headline to the left also?
“What’s in the great British banger?”
any ideas?
Jeez, not 24 hours after I rip “Raymond” a new arsehole over his use of ‘faggot’ as a nasty slur, Wonkette comes along to make it seem acceptable.
If’n y’all read your Tom Brown’s School Days and such like, you’ll also know that “fagging” was part of the school experience. Younger boys were expected to shine shoes and fetch tea for the older ones. They were known as “fags” and were subservient. Me old Dad, may he RIP, once fagged and later had his own fag.
Now, “queens,” on the other hand is a whole other story. I am unqualified to comment.
By the way, I regularly receive ‘Doody calls.’ But I shan’t return them.
Oh, God, thank you! I was having a terrible day and now I can’t stop laughing.
Heh! Wait til you guys find out why you can’t say “fanny pack” in England.
Faggot Family? I thought that was only legal in Massachussetts and California.
Cicada: dammit!!
Canuckledragger: There is the minor difference of using it as a slur to voice your hatred vs out of a grade school sense of shock-value that comes from a lack of wit and sensitivity. I am guilty of that from time to time, like here. Mea Culpa.
We need some high-brow political humor, oh wonderful editorial staff. You start us off low-brow, and we hit rock bottom too quickly.
Gopherit v2.0: Fear not, lest ye be misunderstood. One can quickly and clearly discern whether it comes from humour or from hate. Since you’ve only been guilty of the former, you’ve never been chastized for being guilty of the latter. Whereas Raymond deserves to be straight-bashed in broad daylight on the Castro by mincers in full drag garb.
English faggots: the comedy gift that won’t stop giving.
If only it could have been Mr. Arse’s Faggots one could have Mr. Arse’s Faggots eaten by Doody.
I’m glad someone listed the ingredients. Now someone tell Larry Sinclair that with Barry Hussein being a Muslim and all, he is obviously not allowed to enjoy faggots. Doesn’t anyone do any fact checking anymore? Sheesh.
Canuckledragger: The day that happens, we’ll know we’ve truly reached the enlightened society envisioned by MLK and Ghandi.
No amount of snarky cleverness could even come close to the true comedy expressed as news by our faggot cousins. Gold.
People from the U.K. have been snickering for years about Americans’ willingness to buy “Otis Spunkmeyer” cookies. Turnabout is fair play, I reckon.
Offal may or may not contain pig scrotum, people. Pig. Scrotum.
When all is said and done, faggots are a good source of pork.
JeffGoldblum: Mark Foley is IMin lil’ Lewis as we speak
StrangelyBrown: And Big Macs may or may not contain steer anus. [Actually, chances are high that they do. It is, after all, 100% beef.]
Signed,
Your friendly Vadgatarian
StrangelyBrown: That’s what makes ‘em chewy.
tootingbec: Yes, but Otis Spunkmeyers are delicious. And do not contain pig’s hearts, to my knowledge.
TGY: Just more proof that British “cuisine” is basically shit and hooves.
But this item is more than five years old!?!?
Why are we only hearing about this five year old news item now?!?
weisenheimer: And who wants to hear about past-their-prime faggots?
*ahem*
They’re British, thus they’re kooky,
Their last name rhymes with “dookie,”
The dish they eat sounds ookie,
The Faggot Family!
*snap snap*
queeraselvis v 2.0: mmm… art.
It’s from five years ago, this story.
I see there is no web presence for Mr Brain’s Faggots. Maybe this story killed the company dead.
Canuckledragger: “Tom Brown’s School Days”???
Did someone call for . . . FLASHMAN?!?
I’ve always been quite curious about faggots, but not sure I was ready to try them. Perhaps I could ease into a faggot, then follow up with something familiar, like a fish taco.
The Doodys for Faggots — wait a minute. Is this supposed to be something new?
vicuna: Au contraire, mon guanaco. Just because a British firm doesn’t have a vanity Intertubes page doesn’t mean you can’t still get the goods at Tesco
WONKETTE IS MISSING THE POINT AND HILLARY WILL SHOW YOU THAT THIS POST IS FOUR YEARS OLD AND THAT IS WHEN TEH TRUCKNUTZ DID NOT EXIST AND I AM VERY ANGRY BUT I DO NOT REMEMBER WHY ! ! ! ! ! !
rEVOLution!!!!!!!!!!!1!
Faggots. Because some Englishmen got upset that haggis was already claimed by the Scots.
Can’t the simply gnaw on a raw goat’s testicle and leave offal alone?
queeraselvis v 2.0: FTW!
weisenheimer: Most good comedy is ageless.
And speaking of ageless, when was the first time these concepts were bantered (from the sidebar)?
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