[hummingbird]

"Faggot" is used as "fag" in Britain but it is also the name of a recipe - Faggots and Peas.

Also, used as slang for a cigarette in GB.

Check it out by googling.

"Faggot and Peas" looks like something I wouldn't eat but it has its aficionados.

Of course, "fag" and "faggots" are different in US. So, if you meet an English cigarette smoker, fill him/her in on terminology acceptable and terminology that might result in a beat down.

[Maceman]

"Faggot" is used as "fag" in Britain but it is also the name of a recipe - Faggots and Peas. Also, used as slang for a cigarette in GB. Check it out by googling.

I don't need to check it out. I don't think I have ever met anyone so ill-informed about the world that they wouldn't know that.

But it's pretty clear that here in America, and especially on FR, "faggot" is a deliberately derogatory word used to insult an effeminate or homosexual person.

In the UK, it would be "poofter." You can Goggle it.

[Bikkuri]

Just wait until a Brit asks you to "borrow a rubber" out of the blue ;^o

(it's an eraser to us ;^))