mugs full of animal fat with bits in on your kitchen window sill

[Callie]

did you ever eat the meat jelly?

 

[Geri]

No, not keen on that.

 

[sojourner]

Mug? Pah! I have a whole fucking tupperware box full of goose fat in the freezer - it's gonna liven up sooo much food

 

[chymaera]

do people still have them, particularly on a sunday?

not seen one for years.

Only if you order soup at a motorway services.

 

[Firky]

My mum does, its rank.

 

[lynne8]

we used to always have a mug of this on the go when I was growing up. Don't think anyone ever ate it tho', just topped it up and then threw it out...

 

[Swearing Nonna]

I thought people used to make fat balls for birds with the scuzzy leftovers.

 

[foo]

yep, my mum does that for the birdies.

she tells me that in her geordie childhood, they'd melt the fat when money was hard - and spread it on bread for tea.

i take it, this is 'bread n dripping' ?

 

[Yetman]

Surely people arent so poor they still have to eat fat on bread and meat jelly and rats and shit??!

 

[Swearing Nonna]

You don't have to be poor to like bread & dripping. . .I've been known to dip my bread in the grill pan after cooking bacon and sausages!

 

[Yetman]

There are much nicer things that are much better for you

You know how the black death started dont you? Thats right, people eating rats that had been dipped in dripping.

Either you cease eating animal juice or I'll be forced to report you to Jesus.

 

[trabuquera]

Keeping animal fat for frying/roasting other stuff is a perfectly clean and respectable habit - poncy French chefs are always going on about keeping goose and/or duck fat for frying the best potatoes ever.

Cold beef or lamb fat I'm not at all keen on BUT bread and dripping - that is to say hot toast with SOME of the jellied concentrate at the bottom of the mug/dish (it's just superconcentrated stock after all) and a slight touch of the meat fat is delicious. Food of the gods. The toast needs to be hot enough for the fat (used VERY sparingly) to melt otherwise it's 'orrible. But when done right it is just like a more macho heavy-duty version of toast with marmite and butter. I wouldn't want to eat it every day but on right cold afternoons (or late morning hangovers) with a cup of tea dripping on toast is the business.