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Originally Posted by hobnail
Or in books set in medieval times when a bundle of gathered sticks was called a faggot. Made me wonder how the name for a bundle of sticks got transferred over to gays.
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Or how it also ended up being used for a type of meat byproduct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faggot_(food)
I hasten to add that they didn't feature in the family cuisine when I was growing up. Black pudding was bad enough the one time my mother tried dishing it up.