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Dripping on Toast - £8.50. Seriously.

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Rhubarb0oooo · 25/10/2011 08:07

We visited a pub nearby at the weekend and discovered it had been taken over by Marco Pierre White. So after getting over the shock of paying £10 for two pints of ale and 2 small cokes we had a gander of the menu.

One of the starters was dripping on toast for £8.50.

Not quite believing this I asked the waiter/pub man what it meant and he said they collected the dripping from the belly pork and roast suckling pig that they serve, pour it into a tin, freeze it and then slice it and serve it on toast. Cold.
For this they are charging £8.50.

Now my gran used to have this when there was nothing else to eat and my dad was regularly given it to eat - both Manchester. In fact my gran used to make herself lamb fat sarnies so I suggested that to him (Manchester speciality I called it).

Really though, who would PAY to eat cold dripping on toast?

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ReshapeWhileDamp · 25/10/2011 08:15

I'd pay a quid or so, if it were in a pub and looked yummy. But you're right, it's traditional Cheap Food and they are avin' a larf.

Have to admit, I think we wouldn't have made it as far as looking at the menu, if beer were that expensive initially. Shock

mollschambers · 25/10/2011 08:18

God that is making me heave. I don't think I could eat that at gun point never mind pay £8.50. Shock

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Rhubarb0oooo · 25/10/2011 08:29

We ordered the beer before finding out who owned the pub Reshape and whilst it was tempting to walk out after hearing the price, we were far too polite!

I have to say that most of the menu was reasonable enough, you can get a set 2 course meal for £16. Not that we ever would. But the fact that he thinks people will obviously pay for and eat dripping on toast......?

Have poor people's fare now become rich people's delicacies? Will they also be serving tripe?

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AlmaMartyr · 25/10/2011 08:39

I think quite a few posh places do sell tripe, sure I've read it in restaurant reviews. Mum had tripe a lot when she was little and says it's the only thing she really won't touch again.

Shocked at dripping on toast, that is bonkers.

pud1 · 25/10/2011 08:41

On a vivid to Ludlow a few years back I was astounded to see a chip butty on a cafe menu for £6. I was tempted to order it to see what you got for £6.

GypsyMoth · 25/10/2011 08:41

I think a mcdonalds would be healthier.... And cheaper!!

Is there a calorie count in the menu?!

FellatioNelson · 25/10/2011 08:45

Pork, beef and turkey dripping on hot toast with lots of salt and pepper is truly the food of the Gods, and whilst I would very much begrudge paying £8.50 for it, I would be sorely tempted to order it.

Rendered lamb fat, however, is vile.

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Rhubarb0oooo · 25/10/2011 09:05

No no no, it is wrong Fellatio! It used to be eaten to fill you up so you didn't go hungry and it was never ever served cold.
Lamb fat, when grilled, it a bit like pork scratchings. Nice and crispy and tasty although I wouldn't make sandwiches out of it now.

Dripping is the white fat that collects at the bottom of the grill pan and which you throw away - you don't eat it! That was when people were pretty desperate and didn't have enough to eat!

What an irony that the food we used to get because it was free and cheap and stodgy is now taking pride of place at the top of posh restaurant menus. I think I've just had a new business idea!

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GypsyMoth · 25/10/2011 09:08

It used to be a scraping on toast
Not sliced thickly

FellatioNelson · 25/10/2011 09:11

I don't eat the stuff that collects in the grill pan - yuk! To me, dripping is the juices and solid fat from a roast join or whole roast bird. I use some of the juices to make the gravy and keep some with the drained of solid fats to use as dripping. I use beef dripping to make roast potatoes as well, but I just buy that in a block from the supermarket and it doesn't have any of the jellied juices, only the solid, white fat.

FellatioNelson · 25/10/2011 09:12

In Italy they serve it sliced thickly, and flavoured with herbs, and spread cold onto rustic bread or crackers.

RiffRaffeta · 25/10/2011 14:44

Brilliant! The Pedlars of Gastropubs.

Yuk @ lard on toast

bigTillyMint · 25/10/2011 20:25

Along with all types of offal. And foie gras. And oysters. The only foods I could not eat.

It was a main meal back when our parents were kids (if you are as old as meBlush)

GetOrfMo1Land · 25/10/2011 20:29

My gran used to eat this - an earthenware pot of it was in the fridge. It had probably been there since the war (Crimean). Very thin scraping of white fat on toast.

I eat most things but I wouldn't eat that.

KenDoddsDadsDog · 25/10/2011 20:30

I used to love fat from the fried bacon pan with bread dipped in it!
Am still sorely tempted to do it from time to time.
Might package it up and sell it to Waitrose as a northern delicacy!

ivykaty44 · 25/10/2011 20:34

It is weird isn't it - before long you will have the supermarkets catch on to something like this - dripping on bread or sarnies and they will charge a little less - possibly 3 quid a sarnie.

They already do bread and butter pudding ready made to buy - this type of pudding was knocked up on a Sunday tea time with left over stale white bread a drop of milk an egg and some currents or sultanas - you can't beleive that you can by ready made B&B pudding!

There are a few other left over dishes, made from the left overs that you can now buy in supermarkets ready made.... it is no wonder food is thrown away in this country by the ton each day, no one seems to use lefts overs and yet will buy the left overs ready prepared!

GoodAndBluts · 25/10/2011 20:36

Tesco will be selling dripping sandwiches soon, alongside their pepperoni ones and lasagne ones.

KlickKlackknobsac · 25/10/2011 20:38

mollschambers Grin

ivykaty44 · 25/10/2011 20:38

I thought they would sell the dripping sarnies alongside curry sarnies - I am sure I have seen some style of curry sarnies in tesco?

KlickKlackknobsac · 25/10/2011 20:41

The fat keeps people alive when they work hard and are skinny. No one is skinny anymore and we all do too little so the dripping sandwich is not really needed IMO. I would not pay for it- it would need to be from the roasting tin and mixed with left over roast potatoe bits too. And STILL WARM.

KlickKlackknobsac · 25/10/2011 20:41

blinking eck- my spelling today potato

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Rhubarb0oooo · 25/10/2011 21:23

Seriously I think I'll market a range of Northern delicacies such as dripping on toast (it wasn't his idea so he can't copyright it), lamb fat sandwiches, fried tripe, rag pudding, bread and butter (for when there just wasn't any food) and gravy with bread soaked in it as cheap soup. I reckon I could be onto a winner!

Oh he also served up calf's tongue which is posh, we had to make do with cow's tongue sarnies.

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GetOrfMo1Land · 25/10/2011 21:29

Yes - open a restaurant with a range of traditional artisan food of the english peasant class.

Based on childhood dinners that would be

Egg and chips
Luncheon meat and chips
Chops and chips
Fish paste on toast
Fish stew made from a bag of fish dogends bought from the fishmonger for 50p a bag (meant for cats)
Pigs liver and onions with lumpy burned mash.

cornycabana · 25/10/2011 21:34

I don't know why but it's really got my back up that they're charging £8.50 for dripping on toast.

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Rhubarb0oooo · 25/10/2011 21:44

Luncheon meat? Aren't you the posh one! Spam mate, it's called spam!

I remember the fishy dogends.
Pork chops and chips.
Corned beef and mash.
I still like liver though so I'll let that one off.

corny, people actually order it too. More fool them!

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