Anthony Worral Thomson cooked my lunch for me today.

I think goose fat is over rated.

Rapeseed oil works better.

He does a good yorkshire.

I don't like the flavour goose fat gives roast potatoes. Sort of greasy...

elucidate please jing

No. They weren't greasy. Couldn't taste the fat either.

Just not as crunchy as ours come out at home. Nice enough though.

Got loads of meat. No wonder he's a podge!

I think beef fat is best. Gets hotter without destabilising. Doesn't soak into the food.

Don't think I've ever used rape seed oil.

jeni He uses goose fat to cook his roast spuds. I prefer rapeseed oil.

His yorkshire pudding was good.

His crumble topping had coconut somewhere in it which I didn't like. And it was 'real' custard and he didn't put enough vanilla in.

This was at a pub in Oxfordshire.

I don't want my arteries clogging up Bags. (alright - don't start! )

They're yummy made with rapeseed oil.

Oh! I use sainsburys finest cooked in goose grease!, I'm a lazy cook, though I did chop the onions today!

Goose grease is odd in that it doesn't clog arteries!

Not worried about all that artery clogging rot stuff, jings. Never have been. My arteries are fine.

How do you know?????? You don't have to be fat.

And you're not very old anyway!

I'm really worried about it.

(Why have I eaten four ginger cookies today?! )

Any damage done is already done! I won't even have my cholesterol checked. I go on family history, no females die under the age of 87 in my family!

Let's just say I'm sceptical about what the food industry tells us is good and/or bad for us, plus there's no incidence of the cloggy disease in the family. My forebears died of other things, mostly old age.

Nobody has ever suggested I have my cholesterol checked but I don't care what it is anyway.

Strangely goose and duck fat are good guys - I can't understand it either - have to admit to liking potatoes cooked in it - chips are good too!

I used rapeseed oil for the first time today and the roasties were lovely and crunchy. The women in my family tend to be well into their nineties before they shuffle off so with a bit of luck I'll be looking forward to many more roast dinners and the rapeseed oil could come in handy to oil my wheelchair.

Quite! If you need it! My 90year old doesn't look much older than me. I'm 67
And she's fitter and a lot less disabled. She also does the DT crossword every day!

You can't tell by looking jeni.

I don't know who this bloke is, but he seems to think it's never too late to undo any damage already done.

click here, if you want to

You can remove cholesterol deposits but not the hardening that results from them. You can stop or slow down further damage by altering diet etc, but, if you already have damage you can't reverse it!