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Uh, I'm speechless. What the hell is a "pork faggot" other than a sexual command? :thatsgay:
cement
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I guess I'm wondering what the search parameters were that you had to come up with this result Slugger. :blink:
mizzoueng
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One of the reviews, fun to read.
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Advantages: Taste, great for an easy to prepare dinner
Disadvantages: Can be pricey, faggots sometimes break up when you're putting them on the plate, high fat
Recommend to potential buyers: yes
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Faggots for tea - yum, yum. I sent Mark to the supermarket in search of something 'different' and this is what he came back with. I've not had them for ages (just never think to buy them!) and just scoffed 2 with chips and peas and they were delicious. The particular faggots I'm writing about are 'Mr Brain's 4 pork faggots in a rich west country sauce.' And what a clever chap Mr Brain's is - who would have thought something as revolting as pork liver could be made into something so thoroughly lovely.
They come in a yellow box which shows a picture of 2 steaming faggots, a pile of buttery mash and perfect peas on a plate with lovely looking thick gravy. The front of the box also tells you they are indeed Mr Brain's 4 Pork Faggots in a Rich West Country Sauce and they are made using a 'traditional pork recipe'. The front also lets you know that you have brought the 378g pack (ie. 4 faggots) The back of the box is a yellowy-orange colour with masses of writing (why do companies have to put so much damn small print on something as basic as faggots?). The ingredients list is there, along with storage instructions, nutritional information, cooking guidelines and contact information.
oOoOoOo INGREDIENTS oOoOoOo
Nothing too surprising here - the main ingredient is water and theres 11% pork in the faggots, which is a mixture of pork and pork liver. Pork rind is also included as is onion and various other bits and pieces. The only E number is E150c which is (apparently) a colouring agent.
oOoOoOo STORAGE oOoOoOo
This is where it gets a bit confusing. If your freezer has one star you can keep it for 1 week from date of purchase, two stars you can keep for 1 month from purchase, three and four stars mean you can keep it right up till the best before date. And do I have any idea how many stars my freezer has? Do I heck as like! If you don't have a freezer, you can keep your faggots in the ice making compartment for 3 days and in the fridge for 12 hours.
oOoOoOo NUTRITIONAL INFO oOoOoOo
These faggots are very high in fat (12.5g per 189g cooked, ie. 2 faggots), but not too bad in the calorie stakes with only 242 cals per 2 cooked faggots. Also a HUGE carbohydrate level of 22.5g per 2 cooked faggots. So if you're following a low carbohydrate diet these might just take you over the edge!
oOoOoOo COOKING oOoOoOo
You can cook these in the oven (Gas Mark 8 for 30 - 40 minutes) or microwave them (which I didn't know and don't fancy the idea of mic-ed faggots) for roughly 10 minutes, stirring the sauce a couple of times. If you're going to microwave them TAKE THEM OUT OF THE FOIL PACKAGING or your microwave might blow up! The heating guidelines important information reads - 'For best results always cook from frozen. Cooking times are a guideline only as variations between various appliances can occur. Ensure product is piping hot throughout before serving. Handle hot lid and container carefully. Do not reheat once cooked.'
I took my faggots out of the box and was confronted with a foil carton (like what you get from the chinese) covered with a card lid. Before you cook the faggots, you have to loosen the edge of the foil around the lid and put it in the oven. Easy peasy. Make sure you don't loosen the lid too much though or the bottom of your cooker will be covered in gravy! Now cooking them is a bit of a hit & miss affair. Because they're completely covered by the foil container and lid you have to time them perfectly or you either end up with hardly any gravy or worse, faggots that are still cold in the middle! Lovely - NOT! I find its best to cook them for the full 40 mins cos in my oven they're never cooked properly after 30 mins. I love faggots and chips so halfway though cooking I put my oven chips in because the brilliant thing about Mr Brain's faggots is they arre cooked at Gas Mark 8, which is the same temp as most oven chips.
When they're cooked I remove the lid and use a spoon to put the faggots on the plates (2 each is perfect for me and Mark), put the chips and peas on the plate and pour the gravy over the chps. It can be a bit fiddly to get the faggots out in one piece because the bottoms can stick to the container, but I find a firm shove (for want of a better word) with the spoon will dislodge the bottoms of the faggots and they'll come out in perfect balls. They smell great, really meaty and rich. They look really nice too, like a traditional English dinner - large meatball looking faggots which are a rich dark brown and the gravy is very thick and a slightly lighter brown than the actual faggots.
And they taste gorgeous. Theres a slightly spicy taste to them, which is hard to describe because the spice comes in as more of an aftertaste. You can taste the pork, although it tastes nothing like normal pork, and also the taste of the onion comes through nicely. I can actually taste a bit of tomato in these faggots, although looking on the ingredients list only a little bit of tomato puree is used. And they are sooooo moreish - I have 2 faggots and couldn't really manage anymore, but they taste so lovely I think I could eat the 4 if no-one else wanted any! The texture of them is good too, they're soft and chewy but they break up nicely into crumbly pieces. Sometimes if you leave them in for slightly longer and the gravy starts boiling away you get a lovely 'crust' on top of the faggots, but you'll never get this deliberately - you just have to forget about them! The only thing I can thing of off the top of my head to liken them to is haggis, although haggis is much spicier than faggots. And when you buy them don't imagine fresh butchers faggots because they're nothing like this in either taste or appearance - I personally prefer Mr Brains's faggots to fresh anyway. The gravy is thick and tastes like fresh gravy - although theres a slightly synthetic aftertaste to the gravy. Also, you don't get too much gravy with them, which is fine for me as I'm not a big gravy person but I always have to make some extra gravy up for Mark (who likes his dinner swimming round in a sea of gravy!)
These faggots cost me ?1.39 in Iceland for a pack of 4 and they also sell in packs of 2 for 89p and packs of 6 for ?1.79. You can also buy them just about anywhere that has a freezer section, but be prepared to pay through the nose if you buy them from a small shop - I saw some yesterday in our tiny local shop priced at ?2.05 for 4 faggots!
I'll definately buy them again as they're perfect when you're rushing about because its just a case of shoving them in the oven and forgetting about them.
Mr Brain's faggots are produced by a company called Hibernia Brands Ltd and you can write to them at: Hibernia Brands Ltd, Bridge Road, Bristol, BS15 4PT. Mr Brain's is also sponsoring this years national faggot week, which I believe is being held in February - so go on..... buy a box in time for faggot week
Thanks for reading.
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Advantages: Taste, great for an easy to prepare dinner
Disadvantages: Can be pricey, faggots sometimes break up when you're putting them on the plate, high fat
Recommend to potential buyers: yes
Full review
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Faggots for tea - yum, yum. I sent Mark to the supermarket in search of something 'different' and this is what he came back with. I've not had them for ages (just never think to buy them!) and just scoffed 2 with chips and peas and they were delicious. The particular faggots I'm writing about are 'Mr Brain's 4 pork faggots in a rich west country sauce.' And what a clever chap Mr Brain's is - who would have thought something as revolting as pork liver could be made into something so thoroughly lovely.
They come in a yellow box which shows a picture of 2 steaming faggots, a pile of buttery mash and perfect peas on a plate with lovely looking thick gravy. The front of the box also tells you they are indeed Mr Brain's 4 Pork Faggots in a Rich West Country Sauce and they are made using a 'traditional pork recipe'. The front also lets you know that you have brought the 378g pack (ie. 4 faggots) The back of the box is a yellowy-orange colour with masses of writing (why do companies have to put so much damn small print on something as basic as faggots?). The ingredients list is there, along with storage instructions, nutritional information, cooking guidelines and contact information.
oOoOoOo INGREDIENTS oOoOoOo
Nothing too surprising here - the main ingredient is water and theres 11% pork in the faggots, which is a mixture of pork and pork liver. Pork rind is also included as is onion and various other bits and pieces. The only E number is E150c which is (apparently) a colouring agent.
oOoOoOo STORAGE oOoOoOo
This is where it gets a bit confusing. If your freezer has one star you can keep it for 1 week from date of purchase, two stars you can keep for 1 month from purchase, three and four stars mean you can keep it right up till the best before date. And do I have any idea how many stars my freezer has? Do I heck as like! If you don't have a freezer, you can keep your faggots in the ice making compartment for 3 days and in the fridge for 12 hours.
oOoOoOo NUTRITIONAL INFO oOoOoOo
These faggots are very high in fat (12.5g per 189g cooked, ie. 2 faggots), but not too bad in the calorie stakes with only 242 cals per 2 cooked faggots. Also a HUGE carbohydrate level of 22.5g per 2 cooked faggots. So if you're following a low carbohydrate diet these might just take you over the edge!
oOoOoOo COOKING oOoOoOo
You can cook these in the oven (Gas Mark 8 for 30 - 40 minutes) or microwave them (which I didn't know and don't fancy the idea of mic-ed faggots) for roughly 10 minutes, stirring the sauce a couple of times. If you're going to microwave them TAKE THEM OUT OF THE FOIL PACKAGING or your microwave might blow up! The heating guidelines important information reads - 'For best results always cook from frozen. Cooking times are a guideline only as variations between various appliances can occur. Ensure product is piping hot throughout before serving. Handle hot lid and container carefully. Do not reheat once cooked.'
I took my faggots out of the box and was confronted with a foil carton (like what you get from the chinese) covered with a card lid. Before you cook the faggots, you have to loosen the edge of the foil around the lid and put it in the oven. Easy peasy. Make sure you don't loosen the lid too much though or the bottom of your cooker will be covered in gravy! Now cooking them is a bit of a hit & miss affair. Because they're completely covered by the foil container and lid you have to time them perfectly or you either end up with hardly any gravy or worse, faggots that are still cold in the middle! Lovely - NOT! I find its best to cook them for the full 40 mins cos in my oven they're never cooked properly after 30 mins. I love faggots and chips so halfway though cooking I put my oven chips in because the brilliant thing about Mr Brain's faggots is they arre cooked at Gas Mark 8, which is the same temp as most oven chips.
When they're cooked I remove the lid and use a spoon to put the faggots on the plates (2 each is perfect for me and Mark), put the chips and peas on the plate and pour the gravy over the chps. It can be a bit fiddly to get the faggots out in one piece because the bottoms can stick to the container, but I find a firm shove (for want of a better word) with the spoon will dislodge the bottoms of the faggots and they'll come out in perfect balls. They smell great, really meaty and rich. They look really nice too, like a traditional English dinner - large meatball looking faggots which are a rich dark brown and the gravy is very thick and a slightly lighter brown than the actual faggots.
And they taste gorgeous. Theres a slightly spicy taste to them, which is hard to describe because the spice comes in as more of an aftertaste. You can taste the pork, although it tastes nothing like normal pork, and also the taste of the onion comes through nicely. I can actually taste a bit of tomato in these faggots, although looking on the ingredients list only a little bit of tomato puree is used. And they are sooooo moreish - I have 2 faggots and couldn't really manage anymore, but they taste so lovely I think I could eat the 4 if no-one else wanted any! The texture of them is good too, they're soft and chewy but they break up nicely into crumbly pieces. Sometimes if you leave them in for slightly longer and the gravy starts boiling away you get a lovely 'crust' on top of the faggots, but you'll never get this deliberately - you just have to forget about them! The only thing I can thing of off the top of my head to liken them to is haggis, although haggis is much spicier than faggots. And when you buy them don't imagine fresh butchers faggots because they're nothing like this in either taste or appearance - I personally prefer Mr Brains's faggots to fresh anyway. The gravy is thick and tastes like fresh gravy - although theres a slightly synthetic aftertaste to the gravy. Also, you don't get too much gravy with them, which is fine for me as I'm not a big gravy person but I always have to make some extra gravy up for Mark (who likes his dinner swimming round in a sea of gravy!)
These faggots cost me ?1.39 in Iceland for a pack of 4 and they also sell in packs of 2 for 89p and packs of 6 for ?1.79. You can also buy them just about anywhere that has a freezer section, but be prepared to pay through the nose if you buy them from a small shop - I saw some yesterday in our tiny local shop priced at ?2.05 for 4 faggots!
I'll definately buy them again as they're perfect when you're rushing about because its just a case of shoving them in the oven and forgetting about them.
Mr Brain's faggots are produced by a company called Hibernia Brands Ltd and you can write to them at: Hibernia Brands Ltd, Bridge Road, Bristol, BS15 4PT. Mr Brain's is also sponsoring this years national faggot week, which I believe is being held in February - so go on..... buy a box in time for faggot week
Thanks for reading.
What in the hell??????
Some favorite quotes from the reviews:
...2 steaming faggots... :rotfl:
...I am a dedicated eater of Meat faggots... :duhh:
...my Granddad, who sadly died a few years ago, was a huge fan of Faggots... :GotPics:
...4 pork faggots jumping out at you ... :w00t:
...As I dived in I noticed they were very moist ... <_<
...This week is national faggot week... : USA :
...a very tempting picture of two faggots in gravy... :thatsgay:
Some favorite quotes from the reviews:
...2 steaming faggots... :rotfl:
...I am a dedicated eater of Meat faggots... :duhh:
...my Granddad, who sadly died a few years ago, was a huge fan of Faggots... :GotPics:
...4 pork faggots jumping out at you ... :w00t:
...As I dived in I noticed they were very moist ... <_<
...This week is national faggot week... : USA :
...a very tempting picture of two faggots in gravy... :thatsgay:
Slugger926
Well-known member
Someone posted it on a college sports board.
These are actually some sorta pork brains, therefore they should supply our brains with nutrients. IT IS A BRITISH THING.
These are actually some sorta pork brains, therefore they should supply our brains with nutrients. IT IS A BRITISH THING.
cement
gray haired dude
that is some funny stuff.
I have to wonder about the state of kitchen appliances "will last 1 month if your freezer is rated one star" and "set the oven to gas setting 8" is that after you hook up the propane bottle?
I have to wonder about the state of kitchen appliances "will last 1 month if your freezer is rated one star" and "set the oven to gas setting 8" is that after you hook up the propane bottle?
mizzoueng
Hop Addict
The review said they were mashed pork livers. ABout just as tasty
