Can't say I've come across "faggots" as in the recipes above but they sound appetising; a bit like fancy lamb's fry. In all the time I've been reading I can't say I've ever seen "fagot" in any version of English; I've only ever seen "faggot". But I was aware of the bassoon connection.

Incidentally:
If the Yanks want their own native language then they should invent a new one (like the Indonesians did).

My understanding is that, following independence, the Indonesians wished to avoid the problems consequent to picking the language of any dominant group as the national language for a new nation with several hundred languages spoken across the archipelago. Instead, they chose the language of almost the smallest group, on the Riau Archipelago, as the source for Bahasa Indonesia. This little archipelago is just to the south of the island of Singapore and the language spoken there is very similar to (but distinct from) Bahasa Melayu. A very sensible and successful move, but using cooption rather than invention.

Cheers, Rowan