I know it's bad for you but......

Well I have never eaten bread and dripping. Shredded wheat with jam on, condensed milk sandwiches, yes. We must have had a sweet tooth in my family

Anyone who hasn't eaten bread and dripping or dripping toast with lot of salt hasn't lived properly in my opinion .

Never had bread and dripping but as a child I used to eat condensed milk out of a saucer with a teaspoon and LOVED it! It was a special treat that I begged for but wasn't allowed it often.

My mother always asked whencooking bacon, 'fried bread or greasy bread?' (crispy or just quickly fried) - I loved either or both!! Also I loved condensed milk and very occasionally was given a tiny tin which lasted me a couple of days at least, with a teaspoon, not on bread. Granny, very rarely, gave her GC sugar butties.

off spring are the only ones that have the knack of doing that aren't they Grey and we have to give in. I now have to split it with my DS, have to admit though I stuff some in my mouth before he can measure our "share".

Oh how lovely. I remember bread and dripping as a child. When I was slathering some on bread a few years ago my daughter looked on in horror and said "You are not going to eat that are you?!" Needless to say I did! Don't cook joints much these days so never get any now.

stillalive. I am another who loves the skin on a roast chicken - but I have a rival for it now! GS came in last Sunday when I was dishing out the meat, asking if he could have some skin wi his. "No, 'fraid not" said I "it's all mine - chef's perks!" "What if I give you a really big hug?" he said. Who could resist that?

A little bit of what you fancy is the key. Go ahead. I personally never liked dripping but did like bread butter and sugar dipped in tea. Im a still a huge fat and skin eater, i.e., skin of chicken and fat on other meats when its still hot and juicy. Im not going to change now and let's face it, you've got to go of something.

Oh, the memories! Used to eat it at my Gran's house, loved the brown jelly under the fat layer!

Violette, your post reminded me too of sugar sandwiches, oh how I loved them, also breast of lamb, always huge and meaty, don't see them like that any more.

Did anyone have condensed milk sandwiches! They were another favourite!! ?

and you need the extra salt this weather too

It will be fine, as long as you don't make a habit of it
Especially the jelly bit at the bottom, oh yum

When I was a child I sometimes had what my mother called 'dip in bread' (maybe I misunderstood and she had said 'Dripping bread'). It was bread that was sort of fried/mopped round in the frying pan after the bacon was taken out. It was delicious. I don't remember eating fat from the Sunday roasts. We needed food like that in the cold winters we used to have (and the cold houses).

We had something I'm sure we called skirlie. Maybe Scottish grans can correct me if I'm wrong. It was dripping with onions fried in it, oatmeal added which soaked up all the fat. Very tasty, and maybe the oats counteracted some of the fat's effects?

Theres a lot of new research that all that info re saturated fat was incorrect and actually it is the other fats that have caused us the most harm. But please do your own research for more info . . .

mY Gran , born in 1904 , used to make eggs bacon and fried cheese then pour the fat from the bacon over the top to dip your bread in . She called it jip , I think it was common practice .

toast, then the fat, then the brown jelly bit from the bottom topped with there tiniest bit of Marmite, so little you couldn't see it. Heaven. Dripping on bead too, but with salt instead of Marmite. Also 'bread dipped in fat' think that was probably lard. Just dipped in the frying pan enough to be coated buy not fried. My father liked both sides dipping. He also liked his pyclets (now seem to be smaller and called crumpets) steamed rather than toasted so they were all soggy, but that must have been after butter rationing stopped. My mother used to mix the butter and the margarine together to make the marg taste better.

Ah yes .....my mother used to love the stuff ! There was always a bowl around in our house .....my dad ate it, and my brother also ....not me, I didn't like it ....so if there was nothing else, I just had bread ! Tripe as well ....yuck ! never ate it ...I often went hungry as a child !! ....fried bacon cooked in fat, lard for the baked potatoes, full cream milk (the cat had the cream off the top sometimes !) .....sugar sandwiches ......fried bread ......(in dripping, of course (like that one !) ......breast of lamb full of fat ....none of my relatives ever died young of heart disease surprisingly ! I expect it would be that, eating all that fat, the walking they had to do, and the hard physical work, made up for it ....no cars, no vacuum cleaners or washing machines (my brother and I used to fight to turn the handle on the huge iron wringer in the shed !)...no tv to sit in front of in the evenings ......

Reminds me of a saying from my childhood,on seeing a big fat woman ' Oh, she would make a lovely bowl of dripping!!' Hope I haven't put you off your dripping toast!

Just to keep all those mouths watering I had some on toast AND IT WAS LOVELY. (Sorry about the bowl/bowel bit) Thought of all of you when I had it. DH said he didn't think it tasted quite as good as all those years ago, but I did. Thank you for encouraging me

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Go ahead and eat it! And give some to your DH too. Can you send dripping in the post?

When I was 16 I worked in a factory in the school holidays. At 10.00am a tea trolley came round where they sold hot toast with dripping. I THINK it cost 1d (and 2d for butter). It was welcome then and would be now!

I haven't had bread and dripping for years. Now I want some!

Yum! My mouth is watering at the thought!! Childhood memories, happy days ???

Eat it! A little of what you fancy always does you good.