Faggot

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Faggot

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Traditional dish in the UK

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Faggots, or savoury ducks, are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal (especially pork, and traditionally pig's heart, liver and fatty belly meat or bacon) mixed with herbs and sometimes bread crumbs. It is a traditional dish in the United Kingdom, especially South and Mid Wales and the English Midlands. Faggots originated as a traditional cheap food consumed by country people in Western England, particularly west Wiltshire and the West Midlands. Their popularity spread from there, especially to South Wales in the mid-nineteenth century, when many agricultural workers left the land to work in the rapidly expanding industry and mines of that area. The alternative name "savoury ducks" is regional to Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Lancashire. The first reference to savoury ducks in print was in the Manchester Courier on Saturday 3 June 1843.

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