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Coffee 10:48 Fri Jan 5
Bread and dripping

Loved and consumed by both my grandfathers. One put obscene amounts of pepper on it, the other preferred chopped onions.

When I was in hospital many years ago, you could buy bread and dripping for 2p a slice in the hospital shop. It's good for you, don't you know.

Funny how things change.

Hammer and Pickle 11:00 Fri Jan 5
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Bake a goose once a year just to have my own supply of this splendid food.

Coffee 11:07 Fri Jan 5
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Agree, it is wonderful.

But why goose? Is it any better than beef?

Hammer and Pickle 11:22 Fri Jan 5
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Beef is the other dripping I prize. However, goose produces more per pound and tends to store better (anything up to a year in the fridge). It also has a lovely, nutty flavour. Serve on sourdough bread with brine gherkins and raw red onion. And a shot of ice-cold vodka.

Gary Strodders shank 12:47 Fri Jan 5
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As a kid whenever I heard my old man going on about it I used to baulk just at the sound of it however after giving it a go from the beef joint I soon became booked.
Loads of pepper on it is the way to go.

I was also talking to a mate who originates from Salford who was bemoaning the state of fish and chips in the south and claimed beef dropping was the only thing to fry them in

Council Scum 12:51 Fri Jan 5
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My old Nan lived on bread and beef dripping, she also fried her chips in it, you simply didn't get better chips.

Wils 12:53 Fri Jan 5
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" was also talking to a mate who originates from Salford who was bemoaning the state of fish and chips in the south and claimed beef dropping was the only thing to fry them in"

This ^

We should go back to animal fats in a chip shop. I had some chips up in Scarborough a couple of years ago which were cooked in dripping. Best chips ever.

Wils 12:56 Fri Jan 5
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Come to think of it. I remember when I was kid and chips were the default with every meal, there used to be a chip fryer on the hob. And it would solidify as it cooled down as it was either dripping or lard in there. My mum chucked it out in the eighties I think for health reasons - and safety as it would always catch fire too.

cheeses cruyf 1:11 Fri Jan 5
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Beef dripping on toast lovely jubbly

Iron Duke 2:05 Fri Jan 5
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Never tried it, but one of my favourite things to eat are the bits that get stuck to baking trays.

simon.s 2:13 Fri Jan 5
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Always remember my Nan having it on Christmas morning. Never had it myself.

chim chim cha boo 2:36 Fri Jan 5
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I was a vegetarian for about 40 years until my consultant told me that I should eat chicken. It took over a year to make my mind up about it because there are few things that get a worse life, but when I did I saw an improvement in my arthritis.

Now I eat it once a month and must say I love it. I think I have to eat it all and leave as little on the plate as possible and my very favourite thing is getting round the back of the breast and scooping out whatever I can, including the bits that taste (I imagine) like liver. I think I might have been a hyaena in a past life.

I haven't eaten cow for 50 years but the idea that not anything, bones, skin, fat and of course meat gets wasted is a good thing. It is you, apex predator and paragon of animals who sit behind a fucking desk all day who goes to Hawksmoor, pushes his hardly eaten T-bone away so he can throw another beer down his throat that I could take a cricket bat to.

chim chim cha boo 2:45 Fri Jan 5
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When I was a kid I used to love going to my East-End's Nan's for dinner and a bath every Friday night. She lived in a prefab with hot running water and we didn't. We had a tin bath and an outdoor toilet.

She was a great cook. Bread and dripping, pigs trotters, pea and ham bone soup, ox tail soup. I used to love her food. It's only later I realised that we ate the food she could afford (barely). It really doesn't matter a fuck, I loved her food.

Mike Oxsaw 2:47 Fri Jan 5
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Takes me right back to my childhood/early teenage days delivering milk in the Chadwell Heath/Romford/Gidea Park areas in winter.

Each weekend, my mother would provide me with absolute (Farmhouse loaf) doorstep sandwiches of the stuff for my mid-round break at about 11 o'clock; set me up nicely for the second half of the round (and, if we managed to cash up early enough, to cycle from the Romford United Dairies depot on London Road back to Chadwell Heath and catch the 86 bus to the Saturday game).

I always remember a layer of oily liquid on top of the dripping proper that would never set, but had incredibly powerful flavour.

Beef dripping was always the winner - we "rotated" Sunday lunch through beef, lamb, pork & (home reared/killed) chicken, but beef dripping doorsteps were always a favourite for me.

I seem to recall Clarlks the butchers (Next to Kelsey's on Chadwell Heath high road) selling it in waxed cardboard containers, too.

Hammer and Pickle 3:44 Fri Jan 5
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Yep

People who drink beer with a steak, let alone let the food go to waste on the plate, need Maoist re-education with a cricket bat. Up the arse.

Lato 3:56 Fri Jan 5
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As A kid I remember my old man having bread and dripping every Sunday night for tea. Could never see the attraction myself but,,,,,,,I never lived through World War 2.

Far Cough 4:27 Fri Jan 5
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Used to eat the stuff for supper after the roast beef we had for Sunday dinner.

, 5:37 Fri Jan 5
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As a young child I much enjoyed two of dripping toast.

BubblesCyprus 6:08 Fri Jan 5
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Food of the God's EOT


Post Christmas Turkey dripping possibly the best IMO

Come On You Irons 10:52 Fri Jan 5
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Never had it in my life. Disgusted at just the thought of it.

norwaytips 12:01 Sat Jan 6
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Loved it, but haven’t had it for years. My Mum and grandmother always made dripping from beef. I was also a Marmite kid, so often had bread, dripping and Marmite.

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