Faggots (which are meatballs) have been around since the 1800's. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_%28food%29

They never meant anything by it. Dunno why it would only now be causing a stir.

Sorry to split hairs, but the slang word for cigarette is fag, not faggot. (Which does not, however, solve the mystery of why anyone would want to eat faggots. Blech.)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2698507.stm

I saw this British documentary about trying to revive the popularity of faggots by having a competition for the ultimate faggot family. It was all very serious and the families were sincere in their desire to be the biggest faggot-lovers. The Doodys won.

From the article:

“The Doody family from Wolverhampton has been crowned The Faggot Family in a national competition, and to kick off their reign they will launch National Faggot Week.”

This is clearly the week for humorless gay activists to freak out over food products.

Specifically, the pie in question is called "Barrymore Pie", not "a faggots", and is a traditional TYPE of pie called a faggot, as Baxter points out. I think it's getting some renewed press attention in recent years because of the interest in traditional country British foods, particularly those made with "waste" or "nose to tail" cuts of meat. See Fergus Henderson's restaurant St John in Smithfield, London.

Faggot originally meant a bundle of sticks used as fuel, which is where the slang term fag for cigarette comes from.

It also came to mean any miscellaneous bundle of stuff, such as in a meatball, which is where the pie comes in.

Faggot as a derogatory term for a gay man is pretty recent-- the OED has the earliest usage at 1914. Before that it was used as a derogatory term for a woman (earliest usage 1591), so it probably evolved out of that.

...ok, finished being a word nerd now...

A faggot is also a bundle of wood. Sticks or branches, that is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(wood)

At least they aren't being niggardly.

Of course the Sweeney Todd reference makes one wonder about the ingredients . . .

As an Englishman, it's time for me to put my pedantic hat on! Firstly, the word for cigs is 'fags' not 'faggots', as someone already stated. But secondly, faggots have been around for hundreds of years. The best known brand is 'Brain's Faggots'. Mmmm, doesn't that sound appetising? Actually, they're quite tasty really - pretty much the same thing as a Salisbury Steak. Now if they're complaining about the pub's use of the word 'faggot', then they do indeed need to get a life. If, on the other hand, the pub is selling these faggots as 'Barrymore Pie', then I think I understand their problem.

You see, 'Barrymore Pie' is referring to all-round-family-entertainer Michael Barrymore, who came out maybe 10 or 15 years ago, but managed to retain his place as the grannies' favourite nonetheless, which restored a lot of peoples' faith in the UK as a tolerant society. However, for the last few years (6, perhaps, given that's how long the pub's been selling 'em?) his career has been under a cloud after a guest died at a party held at his house, under what the press believe to be 'suspicious circumstances', although the police never charged anyone with anything. Of course, the press were less interested in the murder/accident than they were in the tales of gay sex and coke snorting that emerged from the party's guests.

So given all of this, if they're using 'Barrymore' as a euphemism for 'faggot', then maybe these activists might have a point. Personally, though, I think they'd have been better off just ignoring it and not giving the pub all this free publicity.

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