Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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22 October 2009
17:5331188I heard a report on the radio this morning that those old faithfuls of more austere times past, have resurfaced into the mainstream diet. Gawd I could throw up...wait for it...Pigs Trotters, Pork Belly, and Faggots! This it seems is due to hardship. Normal cuts of meat can not be afforded by the general populace so they have sunk with a grudging avarice into Dickensian fare
Honestly. I dont beleive it !! as that grumpy ould guy on tv used to say.
First of all not being a cook I wouldnt have the faintest idea how to cook the nasty things and one glance at any of it on a plate would send me scurrying in search af a decent Pot Noodle.
Just imagine for a minute if these delights were the only meat we could get hold of...well, I for one would embrace total vegetarianism with gusto!
Has anyone ever eaten these aformentioned dishes?
perhaps they would like to update us with there delights or lack of...
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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22 October 2009
18:1631190Pig`s trotters at 6d each in the mid 60s were a like a Mcdonald`s for me Paul. Don`t know if I could eat one now though. Never tried the others, though faggots sounded unpalatable to me at the time.
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Guest 657- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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22 October 2009
18:3331194Blugghhhhh - if that's the case I'm becoming a vegetarian!
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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22 October 2009
18:3431195Oh no the only time I remember seeing that kind of food was as a child when my Grandfather would have pigs trotters on a saturday night for his tea, along with other things to horried to mention.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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22 October 2009
18:3731196Will tescos cash in on this? Five a day.
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Brian Dixon
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22 October 2009
19:0731204fagotts with onion gravy and belly pork with roast spuds very tasty set of meals.belly pork has know been reconised as one of the top roasting joints alongside roast beef,lamb and chicken.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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22 October 2009
21:1931229Faggots are delicious, had them fairly recently with a really nice rich gravy and mash..... You should try them PaulB, Brains Faggots can be picked up at any supermarket.
As for belly pork, I dont like it as I am not a fan of too much fatty meat, but Alison loves it and Blakes, not so long ago, did a really good piece of belly pork apparently. The way they did it, it was really a bit of a luzury dish.
As for pigs trotters, my dad sold a lot of them in the 60's and 70's when he had a butchers shop, cant say I ever had them though and frankly dont fancy them.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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22 October 2009
21:2331231faggotts yes they ok but not to often
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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22 October 2009
22:1531240i always thought that bell of pork was a rather luxurious dish, cooked very slowly.
faggots are ok for a change.
Guest 666- Registered: 25 Mar 2008
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23 October 2009
00:2531251I have tried trotters, boiled until they become almost gelatinous (is that the correct spelling?) and along with some maize-meal porridge and tomato and onion gravy they were quite palatable - a staple in Africa and some Carribean areas but not really to my taste and the smell they make whist boiling is quite grim - so only on warm days when you can have a window open! Used to often see them for sale in Brixton market, but you can get them in the butchers most places if you ask and usually only a quid a pair.
Brains faggots are delicious, but have never eaten a whole packet as i find them very filling with lashings of gravy
Belly pork is one of the wife's favourites and the sound of crunchy crackling often echoes around, however it makes me gag!
Bit of neck of lamb or ox-tail comes in handy too - I hope they don't hike the prices just because the Daily mail now says it's fashionable.
Oh Boy!, That'll be the day.........
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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23 October 2009
08:0931266Thanks for all ther encouraging mentions there guys as to the tasy or otherwise value of these grim sounding dishes. I'd be half scared of touching such ..ermm.. in-delicacies as opposed to delicacies, but you live and learn. It must be what you call English traditional food. A whole new generation of young people have grown up on chicken nuggets and will shriek in horror if you stick any of that Pigs Trotter malarkey in front of them.
Although if Tesco package them up good as they do, and advertise them on the usual grand scale, we will all slavishly buy them and love them and think we are in shangri-la.
Coming round for Pigs Trotter anyone!!lol??
23 October 2009
08:1231267I am a veggie of long standing, but as a young person used to eat pigs trotters (yum!) and belly pork lots - loved them! PaulB - as an irishman I am surpirsed you never feasted on well-boiled or roasted pigs trotters and belly pork!!!! The sweet salty meat on a trotter, bathed in delicious fat..........drool...........I could never eat a dead thing again, as a veggie, but I do harbour great memories of cheap but delicious food!!!!!!
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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23 October 2009
08:3931276I could eat belly pork six days a week, fantastic.
But on the seventh day just for a rest it would have to be a nice portion of Chicken lips.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Terry Nunn
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23 October 2009
08:4631277I mentioned this on the old DoverWeb many years ago and it's worth repeating.
When I was a lad just after the war (WW2 that is not the Crimean!) pigs had to be licensed (watch out for that excellent film "Private Function"). My father was a baker and among his specialities were flead cakes, one of the ingredients being pig fat.
Those of you of a certain age might remember Charlie Wilkinson from Seven Star Street flats. He was my uncle and without doubt a bit of a rogue. It was Uncle Charlie who always managed to find those things that were still short in those days. One dark night he arrived at the bakehouse in a bit of a worried state. He said that people had been staring at him and he didn't know why. When he took his rucksack off he realised why he had been the centre of attention. He had walked all the way from the Pier district to Peter Street with a pig's trotter hanging out at the back!
While on the subject of the bakehouse I'll just quickly tell you this. The bakehouse cat used to like laying on top of the proover. One day it forgot where it was and fell off into the doughnut deep fat fryer next to it.
People were picking black hair out the doughnuts for weeks after!
Terry
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Guest 641- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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23 October 2009
12:4731293Mmm.. Faggots & Mash with Onion gravy, Belly Pork, I haven't had it since I was a lad, Pigs trotters, I also remember them in Brixton & Balham (Gateway to the south) I agree with BuddyG the smell! its worse than Pigs tails (a Spanish delicacy), a bit chewy but nice.
Furry doughnuts
I'll try anything once!
DT1- Location: Dover
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23 October 2009
13:2731296It amazes me that so many people so against eating these cheap and tasty cuts of meat, it's such a waste.
Meat production requires a huge amount of resources compared to other foods. As a result living in a society where meat is readily available is a luxury and one we should be very thankful for. My Dad talks about the excitement as a child of having a chicken for Sunday lunch, now people buy them and throw most away. 'Oh I only eat the breast meat' types annoy the hell out of me. Even by intensive farming methods, the raising of that animal is excessive and something in this world so many go without. I don't mind if people find a taste too strong of not to their palette but If you're not prepared to eat as much of the animal as possible(just because you 'don't like the idea of it') then become a vegetarian and do the world favour.
As Howard and Barry say, Belly pork is actually quite a fine dinning dish these days (albeit a cheap cut) and should not be ruled out on price or description. It's funny how people screw their noses up at faggots and haggis and yet still eat supermarket sausages. Pig's trotters are delicious, belly pork is amazing slow cooked, then blasted at the end for the crackling. Faggots are great, yet it is hard to get proper ones (wrapped in caul) Brain's Faggots I find a little too salty and processed.
I quite often buy chicken hearts (along with most of my meat) from the great butcher in the Charlton centre and feed the family for next to nothing. At the weekend a friend took me and my son for dinner in china town and my 5 year old son (along with loads of other kids in the restaurant) was quite happy eating chicken feet and duck webs. Why do we have to be so wasteful because of irrational opinions and an obsession with detaching our food from its source?
Guest 662- Registered: 18 Mar 2008
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23 October 2009
13:4831299Brains Faggots are one of my husbands favourites! Faggots, Mash and Peas all served up in a Giant Yorkshire Pudding. Yummmmmmmmmm xx
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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23 October 2009
14:0631302SHELI
Mushy peas of course??????????/
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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23 October 2009
15:0731307dt is right, do we kill animals just for the popular bits?
most of the food he mentions tastes good if cooked well, we have all got rather spoiled by the meat we have got used to be able to afford.
does anyone remember stuffed hearts?
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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23 October 2009
16:0131308Good post DT...