[identity profile] janetmiles.livejournal.com 2004-08-01 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
In this context, faggots are a kind of large pork meatball.
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[identity profile] unixronin.livejournal.com 2004-08-01 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Which makes one wonder, considering the other British colloquial usage of 'faggot', and that the abbreviated 'fag' is similarly overloaded to mean a junior schoolboy who does menial tasks for an older one, or a cigarette.

Go figure.

partially defatted pork fatty tissue, beef tripe, partially defatted beef fatty tissue, ...

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_duncan/ 2004-08-02 05:42 pm (UTC)(link)
175g/6oz minced pigs' liver
2 lamb or pigs' heart, trimmed and cut into chunks
450g/1lb belly of pork

The ingredients list on that receipe sounds like the contents of "potted meat food product".