On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 02:58:33AM +0100, Bob W wrote: > > it used to be quite common when I were a lad for us mum to give us a slice of > bread and dripping. Delicious it were. Dripping is the lard that's been used > then poured into a bowl, put in the fridge and used again later. I've still got a container in the fridge, which gets topped up with pan drippings from roasts. I wouldn't use anything else for roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding, etc.
> Of course a few years of London sophistication put a stop to that diet, so I > was very shocked when I went to work back up north for a while to see that > people took a break at 11am to get a slice of bread and dripping from the > canteen. The perfect diet for people who don't want to live too long. > > Delicious but deadly, although it's probably no worse than bread & butter, > and a lot better than hydrogenated vegetable fats. Down in the south I encountered an alternative cheap calorie-laden snack - brown sugar sandwiches. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
