Mr. Brain's Pork Faggots (in a rich West Country Sauce)
Right.
I buy my groceries online at Tesco.com. It's great - they're delivered right to my door for just £5, no tips allowed. The selection is as big as the biggest supermarket they've got and if you know exactly what you want then this is the best way to shop. A taxi back from a grocery store costs more than five quid anyway, so I save myself the time of shopping and the money of a cab.
Tesco.com has a nifty function where you can enter in a grocery list and it does it's best to choose what you mean. It's fairly bright and has done well for me each time I try it.
This time, I wanted some pork. I got a bit of a surprise.
Here's what Tesco.com suggested for the 'pork' entry on my grocery list.
Naturally, I had to order them. They just couldn't be real.
Well, they were. Here's a look at the ingredients.
Wow! A whole 11% actual meat! And, ooh, the promise of scrumptiousness that comes from modified waxy maize starch! What the hell is 'rusk' anyway? I asked Bj this question. He thinks that a certain former Secretary of State's burial was faked. Ewww!
Anyway, I cooked these up, here are the final results!
And I did eat them - and, for all the "rusk" and pork liver, they tasted almost as good as Scrapple. I think it's the rich West Country sauce that does it.
I had to wonder what pork faggots in a poor east country sauce would taste like. Beets? Vodka? I believe this is a less than subtle endorsement of the Franco-German opposition to Eastern European enlargement of the EU.
Gregg points out that anything made by Mr. Brain would be a perfect food for zombies.
For fall down laughing fun, check this out! Yes, Mr. Brain's Faggots have their very own website.
As Bj said, you can't make this stuff up, it just has to happen this way. Be sure to click on the description of the Faggot Family.
Bon Appetit!
