Family of faggots fly the flag.

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A West Midlands family is playing a central role in the quest to raise the profile of a forgotten British dish - faggots.

The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week.

The family will be touring the country extolling the virtues of the dish, which is best-known for its links with the Black Country.

The Doody family were chosen to front the campaign after impressing judges at the Savoy Hotel in London in November.

Faggot facts
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Faggots were originally made with pig's liver and offal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
They displayed their fanaticism for the delicacy during quizzes, role-plays and mock commercials.

"The nation knows that the Cornish pasty, Yorkshire pudding, haggis and fish and chips are great British dishes, but all too often the faggot is left off that list," said Janet Doody.

Her husband Fred added: "It's unfair because faggots were a British delicacy long before any of the others.

"The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year."

The family, including Lewis, 13, and Grace, 7, eat faggots twice a week, with mashed potato and mushy peas, and will be launching the awareness campaign on Tuesday at Liverpool University, followed by visits this week to Nottingham, Leeds, Sheffield and Birmingham.

The competition was organised by faggot producer Mr Brain's Faggots.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

you can't make this shit up.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Truly a thread of sniggering delight.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

do they realise what they are doing?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I had faggots and mushy peas with chips and gravy at a restaurant over Xmas, washed down with Guinness. Faggots rule.

― Sick Mouthy (Nick Southall), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, faggots. Just rolls off the tongue.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 23 January 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Has Fred's prowess in this field won him a brace of female fans trying to steal him away from Janet i.e. faggothags?

― Stevem On X (blueski), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

The Doody family

― Masked Gazza, Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, that's what I noticed. Faggot family = Doody.

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

See, this is what Chris Burden should be doing with his time.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, I'm feeling bad for the son. His name - Lewis Doody - sounds an awful lot like 'loose duty' which in my mind suggests diarrhea.

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

This news bit seems to date back to at least June and http://www.mrbrainsfaggots.com is now a gay porn doo-dah. So, yeah, I suspect you can make this shit up.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i was gonna say, we done this one before.

― hstencil (hstencil), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Hates fun.

― Remy IS THE Snush (x Jeremy), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Also I hate fun.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

FAGS - search and destroy

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 23 January 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

the best thing about that picture is that only the son looks somewhat aware that this will come back to haunt him

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I am laughing so hard right now

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha look at the fear in his eyes!

― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder what they call him at school.

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:44 (twenty-one years ago)

probably 'queery' or 'homo'

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Sunday, 23 January 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd imagine just "doody" is rather popular.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 24 January 2005 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

"doody-packer?"

― MY FAVOURITE LIGHTER IS CHEESEBURGER (trigonalmayhem), Monday, 24 January 2005 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

doody, where's my faggot?

― Hari A$hur$t (Toaster), Monday, 24 January 2005 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The husband would have been a sure-fire winner in Viz's now-defunct 'insincere smile' competition

― Jason J, Monday, 24 January 2005 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

This promotional campaign was the subject of a highly entertaining episode of BBC2's 'Trouble at the Top' series which must have been broadcast at least a year ago. Business speak gobbledygook + amateurish execution + DIY superstore accents = top entertainment.

― snotty moore, Monday, 24 January 2005 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Those poor children.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

The kid also looks like Michael Owen.

― Ferg, Ah (Ferg), Monday, 24 January 2005 02:57 (twenty-one years ago)

The news seems to be for real (or at least the BBC says so [it's wouldn't be the first time respectable news agencies spread urban legends, though]), but it's two years old. Also, The Good Faggot Guide mentioned in the text does exist.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 24 January 2005 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuckin' faggots!

― Charles Dexter (Holey), Monday, 24 January 2005 12:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember getting free samples of Mr Brains in Sheffield during National Faggot week a couple of years ago. The Faggot Famly was more photogenic then.

― Ed (dali), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mr. Brain's Faggots" = "Charlie's Angels" of the (politically incorrect) 00's.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Faggots the foodstuff are bloody disgusting, they have a sort of bouncey texture. The West Midlands' contributions to food are, on the whole, things to do with weird bits of pig i.e. black pudding, pork stratchings.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmmmm pigskin.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:45 (twenty-one years ago)

"The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year."

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 January 2005 13:50 (twenty-one years ago)

"Faggot facts
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
They displayed their fanaticism for the delicacy during quizzes, role-plays and mock commercials."

thats like the weirdest poem ever

― the first church of latebloomer, friend of plebians and santa (reformed) (latebl, Monday, 24 January 2005 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I love you ilxor.com

― seedy poops in the woods (Queen Electric Butt Prober BZZ), Monday, 24 January 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

yay

― Maria :D, Friday, 1 August 2008 03:00 (seventeen years ago)

this some kinda randy newman character thing?

― Kerm, Friday, 1 August 2008 03:17 (seventeen years ago)

I was thinking of this story earlier! But I have no idea why o_0

― DJ Mencap, Friday, 1 August 2008 08:57 (seventeen years ago)

because of either my being Scottish or my being clueless I hadn't heard of faggots until a couple of years ago, until I ran into MR BRAIN'S PORK FAGGOTS in Rye's Budgens. I had no idea what was going on.

― Merdeyeux, Friday, 1 August 2008 11:53 (seventeen years ago)

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