{"id":235,"date":"2005-11-21T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=235"},"modified":"2010-01-09T16:33:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T16:33:28","slug":"theyre-big-and-salty-and-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/11\/theyre-big-and-salty-and-brown.html","title":{"rendered":"They’re big and salty and brown"},"content":{"rendered":"
Despite living in London for, oh, months now, I am still prepared to be amazed<\/a> on my trips to the local supermarket. My enthusiasm at finding Sudafed freely available<\/a> has been slightly tempered by the checkout chicks’ ruthless vigilance in preventing you from buying more than 2 packets of paracetamol at the same time – regardless of how big the packets are. I haven’t found out yet whether paracetamol can supposedly get you wasted, be used to make bombs, or contain dangerous amounts of lead<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Sometimes, I am certain the British are doing this stuff on purpose. By ‘this stuff’ I mean selling products like:<\/div>\n
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Mr Brain’s pork faggots – two steaming balls for your enjoyment. I had to take them home with me. It was only after eating them (not bad, in a comfort-food kind of way) that I remembered: I’d heard of these things before<\/em>. Nearly three years ago they had been a minor meme around the world when the company (I’d like to think personally announced by Young Mr Brain himself) crowned an unfortunate household from Wolverhampton Britain’s Faggot Family<\/a>. <\/div>\n

The Doody family <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

CAN’T… BREATHE….<\/em> <\/div>\n
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from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week. <\/div>\n
The Doody family were chosen to front the campaign after impressing judges at the Savoy Hotel in London in November.
“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.”<\/div>\n
Faggot facts:<\/em><\/strong> <\/div>\n
Faggots were called “savoury ducks” in the Middle Ages <\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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… and they still are in certain nightclubs around Soho. Mr Brain used to have a website but it seems to have disappeared – perhaps it was taken down by outraged but misguided Daily Mail<\/em> readers. A slightly damaged archived version<\/a> survives, featuring tasty news items such as “Faggot Family go Public.” <\/div>\n
I wonder where they are now?
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