[Rose of Sharn]

deaconjim took the night off and we have been working on finishing the latest pasture that we have fenced in. Just got the electric turned on and Smokey is in there and happy. We are having a treat tonight, grilled Alligator tail and deep fried frog legs....MMMMmmmmmmmm. Kids love them. This one is especially for Cindydawg! I was talkign about my fav. foods when I was a kid and one of them was Brains faggots. Yep they are real and are still sold in England. Check out this pic! : D



'Here's a message for Faggot-lovers everywhere.' So said Rodney Bewes in one of my favourite ever bygone commercials. That might not be a verbatim quote, but he at least said something equally fantastic. Here's one especially for our American friends, although I doubt that even people who were alive in the days when faggots were popular will be unaware of the word's more modern connotation. Faggots are balls of low quality pork, a kind of 'English haggis', probably intended as a way to make the grossest animal parts seem edible. They are reasonably tasty, if you keep your eyes closed, but the ingredients show that the pork contains more pork liver than pork and a disturbing flavour at the back of the palate suggests the presence of even more offal. Indeed, the second most abundant ingredient is 'pork rind', the exact nature of which I dare not comprehend. West Country sauce seems to mean gravy. In the national consciousness, Brain's Faggots are THE faggots.

[tuffydoodle]

That is tooooo funny.

Aren't pork rinds just pig skins?

[MissTargets]

grilled Alligator tail and deep fried frog legs

That was on the menu at Huck Finns in Pigeon Forge. I had the catfish. Excellent restaurant if you go there. They brought the "vittles" first. Beans, slaw and a basket of hush puppies for appetizers.

When I was a child, the whole family would gather at my Grandfather's farm for a hog butchering. I especially loved the pig's tongue. My Grandfather ate everything but the oink. We are Hungarians, and made some things that would seem strange to you all.

[CindyDawg]

Funny. I have eaten alligator gar. I pass on the frog legs. Too many memories:')

[Beaker]

I've had alligator tail before. It's really good. However, I won't go near froglegs with a ten foot pole. Not that I've ever had them, but I still won't go near them. I'll chalk your faggots up there with that too. :-)

[Beaker]

I've had alligator tail before. It's really good. However, I won't go near froglegs with a ten foot pole. Not that I've ever had them, but I still won't go near them. I'll chalk your faggots up there with that too. :-)

[FrogInABlender]

...Faggots are balls of low quality pork, a kind of 'English haggis', probably intended as a way to make the grossest animal parts seem edible. They are reasonably tasty, if you keep your eyes closed...

LOL! Sounds like what we here in the South call "Souse Meat" (pronounced like House). Ask deaconjim, he'll probably know what I'm talking about. My Granny used to make it when they butchered a hog. Like somebody said, it has everything in it but the squeal. They didn't waste anything back then but I refused to eat it. I was a city kid and too spoiled I guess.