• February 14, 2012

Here is your “Thursday Fun Link,” an article about the Doodys, a Family of Faggot Fans. Our favorite sentence: “The competition was organised by faggot producer Mr Brain’s Faggots.” [BBC]

{ 117 comments }

Barry' June 26, 2008 at 2:05 pm

What?

nbawriter June 26, 2008 at 2:06 pm

Proof that Brits are the funniest bunch around.

The only thing better would be if the product’s name was Dirty Sanchez.

Count Snarkula June 26, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Everytime I have eaten a faggot from the Black Country it has resulted in Doody.

TGY June 26, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Okayyyy! I had to look it up. From Wikipedia (where else?):

“A faggot is a kind of meatball, a traditional dish in the UK, especially the southwest of England and Wales. It is made from meat off-cuts and offal, especially pork. A faggot is traditionally made from pig heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon minced together, with herbs added for flavouring and sometimes breadcrumbs. The mixture is shaped in the hand into balls, wrapped round with caul (a membrane from the pig’s abdomen), and baked. A similar dish, almôndega, is traditional in Portugal.

Offal. Yum.

MARCdMan June 26, 2008 at 2:07 pm

Mr. Brains – We’ve got what faggot fans crave.

freakishlystrong June 26, 2008 at 2:08 pm

Sigh…those poor kids…

tunamelt June 26, 2008 at 2:08 pm

From the Faggot Facts: Faggots were originally made with pig’s liver and offal

Yum?

Cicada June 26, 2008 at 2:09 pm

My favorite quote:
“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year.”

I guess if you’re going to eat a faggot, you might as well use the skin to make a belly muff. It’s like Native Americans and the buffalo!

tunamelt June 26, 2008 at 2:09 pm

[re=25323]TGY[/re]: You beat me.

ronaldpagan June 26, 2008 at 2:09 pm

I want to see them go toe-to-toe with Fred Phelps.

Spence June 26, 2008 at 2:09 pm

The Doody boy looks like he realizes exactly how his ass will be kicked when he goes back to school this fall.
Heh. Doody.

greatgooglymoogly June 26, 2008 at 2:09 pm

You know, there are some days that are worth getting up for more than others. This article is one of the better reasons to believe in the basic goodness of man. No pun intended. (Or maybe intended. I don’t know.)

JeffGoldblum June 26, 2008 at 2:10 pm

“The family, including Lewis, 13, and Grace, 7, eat faggots twice a week, with mashed potato and mushy peas”. If this story came out of Mississippi it would be way more interesting.

I never realized how well alliteration and homophobia could work together.

Huzzah!

ForeignSickSpecialist June 26, 2008 at 2:10 pm

Damn… speechless… but lmao!!!!

ronaldpagan June 26, 2008 at 2:10 pm

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

AngryBlakGuy June 26, 2008 at 2:10 pm

…those sashes are FUKKIN EPIC!!!!

ForeignSickSpecialist June 26, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Black Country Faggots get no respect in the States.

greatgooglymoogly June 26, 2008 at 2:11 pm

The son on the right’s expression is saying, “Get me the bloody hell away from these faggots! I’m begging you!”

greatgooglymoogly June 26, 2008 at 2:11 pm

[re=25333]Spence[/re]: Gah! Beat me to it!

tunamelt June 26, 2008 at 2:11 pm

But I have to wonder why there’s no campaign for spotted dick? Also an unappreciated British dish.

AngryBlakGuy June 26, 2008 at 2:12 pm

…by the looks on all of their faces, I think the son is the only one who get the irony! Poor guy!

Walter Sobchak June 26, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Hearing; “The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year,” Ted Haggard just booked two tickets to Heathrow, to celebrate his graduation! And I apologize in advance for this whole thread.

freakishlystrong June 26, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Should that be “Fly the Rainbow Flag?”

Doglessliberal June 26, 2008 at 2:12 pm

[re=25328]tunamelt[/re]: Oh, but you have to include the whole litany of the “Fagggot Facts” in the article:

“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”

Inadequate Blackmail June 26, 2008 at 2:13 pm

Look at the son. He knows the score. He knows people like us are going to be laughing at this picture for the next 100 years.

That poor little girl, though, hasn’t got a clue.

Cicada June 26, 2008 at 2:13 pm

[re=25332]ronaldpagan[/re]: GOD HATES YORKSHIRE PUDDINGS!

shortsshortsshorts June 26, 2008 at 2:13 pm

Somebody should write a history of teh “Faggots.”

freakishlystrong June 26, 2008 at 2:15 pm

[re=25345]tunamelt[/re]: We must also mention “bangers and mash” here I think…

tunamelt June 26, 2008 at 2:15 pm

Actually, I could go for some bangers and mash.

Delicious June 26, 2008 at 2:16 pm

I thought if you were a homo in England, you were a poofter. Or maybe a ginger.

ronaldpagan June 26, 2008 at 2:16 pm

How about a few bangers with some faggots, followed up with some spotted dick?

How is the BBC not aware of this though? You wouldn’t see an American family going on and on about saving some pastry called a “poofter.”

[re=25337]ronaldpagan[/re]: This quote was real, by the by.

TGY June 26, 2008 at 2:17 pm

[re=25328]tunamelt[/re]: Luck, of course.

nbawriter June 26, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Is that why Archie Bunker called Meatball “half a fag?”

He was only showing his intercontinental knowledge. Poor, misunderstood guy.

Gopherit v2.0 June 26, 2008 at 2:19 pm

“The great British faggot is full of flavour and a great belly warmer at this time of year,”

Why can I only think of George Michael singing “Last Christmas” after reading this?

Elitist Republican Tard June 26, 2008 at 2:20 pm
MARCdMan June 26, 2008 at 2:20 pm

So it’s basically haggis, except made from pigs instead of sheep?

Servo June 26, 2008 at 2:21 pm

Are those microwavable faggots?

spencer June 26, 2008 at 2:22 pm

This must be what it is like to work in John McCain’s campaign offices. “Hey have you guys seen these dancing hampsters? HILARIOUS!”

WadISay June 26, 2008 at 2:23 pm

If your last name is “Doody”, you’ve pretty much lost the dignity battle anyway, so go ahead, endorse a line of personal vibrators, enemetics, buttplugs, or whatevs.

shortsshortsshorts June 26, 2008 at 2:23 pm

[re=25368]Elitist Republican Tard[/re]: I see the faggots come with a full set.

Gopherit v2.0 June 26, 2008 at 2:25 pm

[re=25369]MARCdMan[/re]: And no stomach, I think. The English will eat anything.

Makeithurt June 26, 2008 at 2:26 pm

Trouble with eating a faggot is you want another one a half hour later. I like mine with cream sauce and slammed down my throat real hard. Sometimes it’s hard to breathe but it’s worth it.

FunkyPalmettoBug June 26, 2008 at 2:26 pm

The british eat faggots, we have the super tuber…two peoples separated by gay food dishes.

ReelectTilden June 26, 2008 at 2:26 pm

[re=25323]TGY[/re]: It sounded much mroe appetizing when I thought it meant consentual sodomy.

ronaldpagan June 26, 2008 at 2:26 pm

This BBC headline would make a good t-shirt…can CNN pick up on this story, plz?

[re=25350]Doglessliberal[/re]: Haha savoury ducks, as in “That Charlie Crist is a real savoury duck.”

The Good Faggot Guide:

Good faggots: Oscar Wilde, Kanye West, John Waters, Abe Lincoln, all gay Wonkette commenters
Bad faggots: Charlie Crist, Alan Keyes, Ted Haggard, Fred Phelps, Mark Foley

AxmxZ June 26, 2008 at 2:27 pm

Another great CNN headline shirt.

ManchuCandidate June 26, 2008 at 2:27 pm

So let me get this straight. TruckNutz in British is LorryFaggotz?

iwillsavethispatient June 26, 2008 at 2:28 pm

The news article is from 2003… that means that poor 13-year old pictured is now 18. Being Britain, this means he can legally drink away his embarassment now. Let’s hope, for his sake, anyway.

Cicada June 26, 2008 at 2:29 pm

[re=25361]ronaldpagan[/re]: Well, we have fanny packs, and fanny means vagina across the pond. They call them “bum bags” instead.

Dr. StrangeCock June 26, 2008 at 2:30 pm

This article reads as if it were written by Dr. Tobias Fünke.

ReelectTilden June 26, 2008 at 2:32 pm

[re=25391]Dr. StrangeCock[/re]: Who doesn’t like a banger in the mouth?

Doglessliberal June 26, 2008 at 2:33 pm

[re=25384]ronaldpagan[/re]:

Bad Faggot: Larry Craig, Roy Cohn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn and http://www.sohoblues.com/SoHoBlues/previewpages/preview51.jpg

“Bad” Faggot: Any sub faggot to his dom (as in “ooooh, you’ve been a bad, bad faggot. You must be punished!”)

Doglessliberal June 26, 2008 at 2:34 pm

[re=25390]Cicada[/re]: they really need to learn to speak English over there

Deepthroat June 26, 2008 at 2:35 pm

1980s Faggot advert

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y136zBVjBg&feature=related

mmmmmm… faggots

SayItWithWookies June 26, 2008 at 2:37 pm

Does Mr. Doody the faggot lover happen to work…. as a fudge packer? Pleeease?

PioBaroja June 26, 2008 at 2:39 pm

I hear that the faggot is best eaten standing up, preferably with a wide stance.

shortsshortsshorts June 26, 2008 at 2:39 pm

[re=25387]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Win.

Servo June 26, 2008 at 2:39 pm

[re=25388]iwillsavethispatient[/re]:
My money says that he cast himself into the Irish Sea a few years ago.

VenjaminJenkman June 26, 2008 at 2:40 pm

When I miss your lips, I’ll put a fag in my mouth and think of you.

Sigh, that movie needs to come out.

Rodney Badger June 26, 2008 at 2:41 pm

British people also call cigarettes fags. Can I bum a fag? I’m gonna go smoke a fag. I need to find a pack of fags.

Yeah, awesome.

Also, “fanny” means vagina in Britain, and it’s a somewhat vulgar term over there. I had a Scottish girlfriend a while back and she came over for a visit. During said visit, my step-mom found some comment I made disagreeable and exclaimed “[Premise of my comment] my fanny!” My ex nearly wet herself.

Doglessliberal June 26, 2008 at 2:44 pm

this is not shameless butt kissing (speaking of fannies, bums, and faggots), but I was just struck with how great Wonkette is. Both the postings and the comments are just uniformly great and smart and fun to read. Thanks commenters and Wonkette editors for not letting this become a Washington-Post-political-blog-commenter-filled hell.

Tawmn June 26, 2008 at 2:45 pm

Faggot Haggis… Biggus Dickus… You can’t write this stuff.

Doglessliberal June 26, 2008 at 2:46 pm

[re=25374]WadISay[/re]: “We in the Doody family just love to eat faggots. They are toe-tappingly delicious!”

MoodProcessor June 26, 2008 at 2:46 pm

[re=25407]Rodney Badger[/re]:
Or, my favourite quote, “My breath stinks from sucking on fags all day.”

Gopherit v2.0 June 26, 2008 at 2:47 pm

[re=25397]Deepthroat[/re]: Make fun of the Brits all you want, but at least the faggots in question serve a useful purpose…..not like American cornholing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io8X4pz_QJ0

iwillsavethispatient June 26, 2008 at 2:47 pm

British people know both meanings of “faggot” I assure you… I suspect the Beeb’s web news department just tries to see what ridiculous headline they can put up without anyone complaining.
In evidence, I give you this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7390109.stm

MoodProcessor June 26, 2008 at 2:48 pm

[re=25411]Doglessliberal[/re]: awww….shucks…..(absent mindedly kicks pebbles on groung)

WadISay June 26, 2008 at 2:49 pm

Common usage or not, next time some Brit tells me he has to masticate his faggots, I will probably blow lunch all over him.

Botswana Meat Commission FC June 26, 2008 at 2:51 pm

[re=25391]Dr. StrangeCock[/re]:
I prefer to read it in the voice of Mrs. Featherbottom.

freakishlystrong June 26, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Doglessliberal June 26, 2008 at 2:52 pm

[re=25423]WadISay[/re]: Though there probably is a gay cannibalism fetish site out there somewhere. I am NOT doing a search to confirm that, however. I’ll leave that to Dan Savage for column research.

KevoTron June 26, 2008 at 2:53 pm

The Seattle pride parade is this weekend. Damn I wish I could get my hands on one of those sashes. They’re more queer than a box of birds.

El Bombastico June 26, 2008 at 2:55 pm

Poor Lewis. Entering adolescence, but being saddled with a humorous and somewhat scatological surname, he surely resolved to live a quiet, humble existence of restrained dignity.

…His family does what now?

obfuscator June 26, 2008 at 2:59 pm

[re=25407]Rodney Badger[/re]:

Big Keith: “Over there, ‘fanny’ means your bum… not your minge… “

freakishlystrong June 26, 2008 at 3:00 pm

[re=25419]iwillsavethispatient[/re]: Yeah, now that’s a headline tee I would buy!

obfuscator June 26, 2008 at 3:02 pm

[re=25429]Botswana Meat Commission FC[/re]:

Maebe and I would prefer if you’d call her “Mrs. Fingerbottom”.

ForeignSickSpecialist June 26, 2008 at 3:02 pm

[re=25384]ronaldpagan[/re]: A new epithet. Brilliant!

BobLoblawLawBlog June 26, 2008 at 3:06 pm

seriously, did no one see the headline to the left also?

“What’s in the great British banger?”

any ideas?

Canuckledragger June 26, 2008 at 3:07 pm

Jeez, not 24 hours after I rip “Raymond” a new arsehole over his use of ‘faggot’ as a nasty slur, Wonkette comes along to make it seem acceptable.

If’n y’all read your Tom Brown’s School Days and such like, you’ll also know that “fagging” was part of the school experience. Younger boys were expected to shine shoes and fetch tea for the older ones. They were known as “fags” and were subservient. Me old Dad, may he RIP, once fagged and later had his own fag.

Now, “queens,” on the other hand is a whole other story. I am unqualified to comment.

By the way, I regularly receive ‘Doody calls.’ But I shan’t return them.

disgustedcitizen June 26, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Oh, God, thank you! I was having a terrible day and now I can’t stop laughing.

Cool2Snog June 26, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Heh! Wait til you guys find out why you can’t say “fanny pack” in England.

Jewdishoowary Square June 26, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Faggot Family? I thought that was only legal in Massachussetts and California.

Cool2Snog June 26, 2008 at 3:22 pm

[re=25390]Cicada[/re]: dammit!!

Gopherit v2.0 June 26, 2008 at 3:24 pm

[re=25459]Canuckledragger[/re]: There is the minor difference of using it as a slur to voice your hatred vs out of a grade school sense of shock-value that comes from a lack of wit and sensitivity. I am guilty of that from time to time, like here. Mea Culpa.

We need some high-brow political humor, oh wonderful editorial staff. You start us off low-brow, and we hit rock bottom too quickly.

Canuckledragger June 26, 2008 at 3:31 pm

[re=25497]Gopherit v2.0[/re]: Fear not, lest ye be misunderstood. One can quickly and clearly discern whether it comes from humour or from hate. Since you’ve only been guilty of the former, you’ve never been chastized for being guilty of the latter. Whereas Raymond deserves to be straight-bashed in broad daylight on the Castro by mincers in full drag garb.

DoctorCulturae June 26, 2008 at 3:32 pm

English faggots: the comedy gift that won’t stop giving.

If only it could have been Mr. Arse’s Faggots one could have Mr. Arse’s Faggots eaten by Doody.

23 Skidoo June 26, 2008 at 3:34 pm

I’m glad someone listed the ingredients. Now someone tell Larry Sinclair that with Barry Hussein being a Muslim and all, he is obviously not allowed to enjoy faggots. Doesn’t anyone do any fact checking anymore? Sheesh.

Gopherit v2.0 June 26, 2008 at 3:36 pm

[re=25506]Canuckledragger[/re]: The day that happens, we’ll know we’ve truly reached the enlightened society envisioned by MLK and Ghandi.

bitchincamaro June 26, 2008 at 3:42 pm

No amount of snarky cleverness could even come close to the true comedy expressed as news by our faggot cousins. Gold.

tootingbec June 26, 2008 at 3:48 pm

People from the U.K. have been snickering for years about Americans’ willingness to buy “Otis Spunkmeyer” cookies. Turnabout is fair play, I reckon.

StrangelyBrown June 26, 2008 at 3:48 pm

Offal may or may not contain pig scrotum, people. Pig. Scrotum.

WhatTheHeck June 26, 2008 at 3:50 pm

When all is said and done, faggots are a good source of pork.

Trollop June 26, 2008 at 3:53 pm

[re=25335]JeffGoldblum[/re]: Mark Foley is IMin lil’ Lewis as we speak

Canuckledragger June 26, 2008 at 3:54 pm

[re=25539]StrangelyBrown[/re]: And Big Macs may or may not contain steer anus. [Actually, chances are high that they do. It is, after all, 100% beef.]

Signed,
Your friendly Vadgatarian

Gopherit v2.0 June 26, 2008 at 3:55 pm

[re=25539]StrangelyBrown[/re]: That’s what makes ‘em chewy.

ReelectTilden June 26, 2008 at 3:55 pm

[re=25538]tootingbec[/re]: Yes, but Otis Spunkmeyers are delicious. And do not contain pig’s hearts, to my knowledge.

SocialList June 26, 2008 at 4:40 pm

[re=25323]TGY[/re]: Just more proof that British “cuisine” is basically shit and hooves.

weisenheimer June 26, 2008 at 4:57 pm

But this item is more than five years old!?!?

weisenheimer June 26, 2008 at 4:59 pm

Why are we only hearing about this five year old news item now?!?

23 Skidoo June 26, 2008 at 5:01 pm

[re=25653]weisenheimer[/re]: And who wants to hear about past-their-prime faggots?

queeraselvis v 2.0 June 26, 2008 at 5:11 pm

*ahem*

They’re British, thus they’re kooky,
Their last name rhymes with “dookie,”
The dish they eat sounds ookie,
The Faggot Family!
*snap snap*

Tawmn June 26, 2008 at 6:47 pm

[re=25678]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: mmm… art.

vicuna June 26, 2008 at 7:22 pm

It’s from five years ago, this story.

I see there is no web presence for Mr Brain’s Faggots. Maybe this story killed the company dead.

Neilist June 26, 2008 at 9:00 pm

[re=25459]Canuckledragger[/re]: “Tom Brown’s School Days”???

Did someone call for . . . FLASHMAN?!?

Beef Supreme June 26, 2008 at 9:21 pm

I’ve always been quite curious about faggots, but not sure I was ready to try them. Perhaps I could ease into a faggot, then follow up with something familiar, like a fish taco.

kellygrrrl June 26, 2008 at 10:27 pm

The Doodys for Faggots — wait a minute. Is this supposed to be something new?

Lazy Media June 26, 2008 at 11:19 pm

[re=25785]vicuna[/re]: Au contraire, mon guanaco. Just because a British firm doesn’t have a vanity Intertubes page doesn’t mean you can’t still get the goods at Tesco

shortsshortsshorts June 27, 2008 at 1:45 am

WONKETTE IS MISSING THE POINT AND HILLARY WILL SHOW YOU THAT THIS POST IS FOUR YEARS OLD AND THAT IS WHEN TEH TRUCKNUTZ DID NOT EXIST AND I AM VERY ANGRY BUT I DO NOT REMEMBER WHY ! ! ! ! ! !

rEVOLution!!!!!!!!!!!1!

trai_dep June 27, 2008 at 3:43 am

Faggots. Because some Englishmen got upset that haggis was already claimed by the Scots.
Can’t the simply gnaw on a raw goat’s testicle and leave offal alone?

ThreeFingersNeat June 27, 2008 at 11:54 am

[re=25678]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: FTW!

[re=25653]weisenheimer[/re]: Most good comedy is ageless.

And speaking of ageless, when was the first time these concepts were bantered (from the sidebar)?

See also:

13 Jun 02 | Health
Traditional meals ditched for snacks

13 Dec 00 | Health
Men stick to junk food and beer

Escape Goat Nation February 26, 2010 at 2:17 pm

That Gordon Ramsey is a funny mother fucker

Smoke Filled Roommate February 26, 2010 at 3:15 pm

Faggots sound like scrapple meatballs…

Smoke Filled Roommate February 26, 2010 at 3:20 pm

I think the sponsor’s name should be changed to Mr Doody’s Faggots because the Doodys won the Faggot Competition.

Mad Brahms February 26, 2010 at 3:54 pm

I always thought “faggots” were cigarettes, so my first reaction was “Mmm, cigarette butts in cream sauce”, which quite honestly STILL sounds better than most British cuisine.

american mutt February 26, 2010 at 4:35 pm

every single word in that sentence is hilarious.

CARCUNTZ!(tm)-R-Us February 26, 2010 at 4:49 pm

Faggots pair well with spotted dick.

Smoke Filled Roommate February 26, 2010 at 5:33 pm

Here’s a Faggot Commercial.. Ahhhhhhhh…Faggots!

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