kanny 21,145 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 I loved it when I was a kid. It was a genuine treat. We would often come in from play and be given bread and dripping to share with whoever we were playing with. I can remember my mam and grandma eating tripe and pigs' feet. The working class really did eat offal in those days. Fecking disgusted me-but they used to love it. I was more of a fray bentos tinned beef lover. (probably offal as well) I can remember my mam chasing me with the pig's foot for a laugh. No doubt these days I could have counselling for psychological trauma. Same here pigs trotter were a regular dinner when I was a nipper and i remember enjoying them ....because my dad had a knackers yard I always had some body part in pocket usually a Turkey foot I'd pull the tendons and freek my mates out lol I also took a calfs head to school for a bring and show and it went down a treat can you imagine the kerfufle it would cause now days lol. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jukel123 9,046 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 (edited) Turning up for school with a calf's head. That creased me. A sure case for social workers these days. Id like to have been a fly on the wall in the staff room. Edited November 21, 2016 by jukel123 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Solution kanny 21,145 Posted November 21, 2016 Solution Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 Turning up for school with a calf's head. That creased me. A sure case for social workers these days. Id like to have been a fly on the wall in the staff room. Our teacher was sound and into taxidermy he stuffed the head lol 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lloyd90 509 Posted November 21, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 Turning up for school with a calf's head. That creased me. A sure case for social workers these days. Id like to have been a fly on the wall in the staff room.Our teacher was sound and into taxidermy he stuffed the head lol David Cameron used that excuse! 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mushroom 13,535 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 I loved it when I was a kid. It was a genuine treat. We would often come in from play and be given bread and dripping to share with whoever we were playing with. I can remember my mam and grandma eating tripe and pigs' feet. The working class really did eat offal in those days. Fecking disgusted me-but they used to love it. I was more of a fray bentos tinned beef lover. (probably offal as well) I can remember my mam chasing me with the pig's foot for a laugh. No doubt these days I could have counselling for psychological trauma. I love pig feet ?? Have jars in the fridge of chicken/duck/beef/pig - fat/dripping. do me roast veggies in them, bit of dripping on toast for the daughter and me on a night. The dog loves the pig fat with a bit of hot water on his rice or quinoa ??? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Accip74 7,112 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 I'm pretty sure I've had it, but must be a long time ago........This year I've enjoyed bone marrow on toast a few times. That's quite nice. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
gnasher16 30,598 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 Not sure ive ever had bread and dripping but just seeing the words " Fray Bentos " makes me want to heave.......ive never forgiven my ol mother for forcing those revolting f****n things down my neck even the sound of those nasty metal ring pull things or the smell once the lid was off has left me mentally scarred ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Onlyworkmatters 1,584 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 Not sure ive ever had bread and dripping but just seeing the words " Fray Bentos " makes me want to heave.......ive never forgiven my ol mother for forcing those revolting f****n things down my neck even the sound of those nasty metal ring pull things or the smell once the lid was off has left me mentally scarred ! Used to get Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie in our weekly food parcel during the miners strike, cant look at 1 now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Malt 379 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 used love the it, but its very bad for you, all that fat will feck up your arteries long term, my wife family lived on the stuff in 50-60s , not much money so eat what they could get, and dripping was one of the things they had, all stuff like that bad for you cholesterol , they all had heart attacks and strokes and died quite young ( mid 60s) , dripping ok once in a while Ray that has all been proven to be nonsense ... that was the thinking back in the ,s and onwards etc but three separate scientific facilities have carried out studies using hundreds of people and proved there is no harm from animal based saturated fats .......Spot on.. The original advice was flawed, everyone cut out fat and the population ballooned in weight.. Sugar and other carbs. Think back to the times when everyone ate all their fat, butter and dairy and people were as thin as bloody rakes! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bird 10,013 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 used love the it, but its very bad for you, all that fat will feck up your arteries long term, my wife family lived on the stuff in 50-60s , not much money so eat what they could get, and dripping was one of the things they had, all stuff like that bad for you cholesterol , they all had heart attacks and strokes and died quite young ( mid 60s) , dripping ok once in a while I think everybody died mid sixties or before in those days. I think there were lots of reasons for it-not just poor grub. One thing I have noticed though is that kids who were born just after the war are a lot taller than their parents-better nutrition i reckon. I'm a lot taller than my dad was and even my older brothers. My mam reckoned it was because i got cod liver oil and free orange juice which wasn't available to older kids. Mind you the fact that we lived near the docks helped too--there was lots of foodstuffs knocked off from the docks which always found its way into kitchen. My dad, uncles and grandad worked on the docks so we were well fed by comparison to other families. thats very true regards kids being taller after the war , i was born 1952 , me and my 3 brothers are all taller than what my dad was, me and one bother 6ft and the one 6ft 2in , dad was 5ft 9 1/2 in , and me dad brothers were all about 5ft 7 he was the biggest , deff we ate better after the war . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
lanesra 4,007 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 My old man loved "Tripe" . . Tasted it once & that was once too many fecking horrible stuff . . Though I loved lambs frys until I was told what they where Quote Link to post Share on other sites
devon flighter 421 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 yep bread an dripping"salt and pepper either on toast or plain bread" pigs trotters,chitterlings ,grey peas and bacon ,did me no harm "Well not to sure about mentally though perhaps thats the reason " 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
terryd 8,774 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 used love the it, but its very bad for you, all that fat will feck up your arteries long term, my wife family lived on the stuff in 50-60s , not much money so eat what they could get, and dripping was one of the things they had, all stuff like that bad for you cholesterol , they all had heart attacks and strokes and died quite young ( mid 60s) , dripping ok once in a while Ray that has all been proven to be nonsense ... that was the thinking back in the ,s and onwards etc but three separate scientific facilities have carried out studies using hundreds of people and proved there is no harm from animal based saturated fats .......Spot on.. The original advice was flawed, everyone cut out fat and the population ballooned in weight.. Sugar and other carbs. Think back to the times when everyone ate all their fat, butter and dairy and people were as thin as bloody rakes! Makes sense I was raised by my grand parents and they were skinny but wiry and fit/tough as hell. They used to run a cafe when I was about 8 and every dam day we had bacon and egg for dinner and I mean every day lol. Just because its was convenient/cheap and what they had most of. I was sick of it. Loads of beef dripping, lard and corn beef all whacked down. They both lived to a ripe old age Quote Link to post Share on other sites
socks 32,253 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 Not sure ive ever had bread and dripping but just seeing the words " Fray Bentos " makes me want to heave.......ive never forgiven my ol mother for forcing those revolting f****n things down my neck even the sound of those nasty metal ring pull things or the smell once the lid was off has left me mentally scarred ! Used to get Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie in our weekly food parcel during the miners strike, cant look at 1 now And those tins of minced meat in gravy ... fukcing vile ... we fed them to the dogs so that the dogs could catch us some real meat lol ...... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
kanny 21,145 Posted November 21, 2016 Report Share Posted November 21, 2016 Not sure ive ever had bread and dripping but just seeing the words " Fray Bentos " makes me want to heave.......ive never forgiven my ol mother for forcing those revolting f****n things down my neck even the sound of those nasty metal ring pull things or the smell once the lid was off has left me mentally scarred ! Used to get Fray Bentos steak and kidney pie in our weekly food parcel during the miners strike, cant look at 1 now And those tins of minced meat in gravy ... fukcing vile ... we fed them to the dogs so that the dogs could catch us some real meat lol ......Yeah that tinned mince was rank but I'm quite fond of the tinned steak in gravy on a jacket spud polony sausage wtf was that shite? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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