Dripping on Toast - £8.50. Seriously.

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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?

Nah, luncheon meat was cheaper than Spam. Spam! That's an actual brand name. We had gateway's own luncheon meat. And bloody shite it was too. For christmas we had the luxury of a tin of Ye Olde Oak ham.

I love liver, but didn't know until I was an adult that most people eat calves or lambs liver, and pig liver is normally considered too strong for humans to eat. My gran always bought the cheapest shit from the butchers.

More money than sense

Egg and chips is still food of the gods for me, actually.

I never cook it at home though, don't have a chip pan. I remember the chip pan from my childhood, a big pan which was permanently stationed on top of the stove, fat was changed probably every leap year. It caught fire in the end, melted all the polystyrene tiles on gran's kitchen ceiling.

God yes- egg and chips is orgasmic

I remember my mum's chip pan. She used lard which was very rarely changed. ewwww!

We went to St John in Smithfield a while ago. Great meal, but we were baffled by the huge trays of what looked like doorstep sarnies being carried into the kitchen. It turned out that they offered Welsh Rarebit (or cheese on toast to you) as a side order, and every bugger was ordering them.

A quick google reveals that they charge 5.20 a pop for cheese on toast as a side dish, admittedly a large portion, but.....why, just why?
They are also currently offering crispy pig's ear as a starter, with chicory and sorrel for 7.20.

I am bloody starving now. Egg and chips, welsh rarebit.

welsh rarebit is just cheese on toast isn't it?

haven't had cheese on toast for ages
cheese on toast with HP sauce....mmmm

I wouldn't say the drinks were expensive, beer £3.50 ish a pint, and pepsi on draught £1.70ish / bottle coke £2 ish.
However that is extortionate for fat on toast!!!

Welsh rarebit if cheese on toast with beer (and mustard iirc).

It's bloody LOVELY.

make me some cheese on toast with hp, corny, whilt you're at it

I'm having some for lunch tomorrow for sure

I used to work in a factory in Salford years ago and the cook in the canteen made the most amazing cheese on toast. She used to brush beaten egg on top of grated cheese with one of those egg brush things. It was awesome and I've never been able to match it.

I remember it was quite nice - but just a smidgen on hot toast so it melted in - like butter only tastier - a bit like butter with marmite I guess ....
I think my Dad grew up on it in the war from what he tells me.
You wouldn't want a great, cold, slice of it though - you have to be much stingier to get the proper effect ! And you wouldn't want to be paying £8.50 either [hwink]

I still use a chip pan, you can't beat homemade chips! I don't use lard though, which is a pity as lard chips are fantastic. I've had the odd chip pan fire too. Worth it for crispy chips I reckon!

Crumbly Lancashire cheese is amazing on toast. Truly amazing.

Did anyone else used to have rag pudding or just me? It's basically minced meat and onions wrapped in suet, which is then wrapped in a tea towel, bound with string and boiled for about 2 hours. Tasteless and vile but cheap and filling.
Oh and pigs trotters, nowt wrong with pigs trotters!

My grandma used to make tripe poached in milk and onions with salt and pepper. I loved it and used to ask for it each time I visisted.

She also used to make a veg soup with pearl barley with a couple of pig trotters in there during the cooking (about 3 hours). None of my cousins would touch the trotters so I used to get both of them to nibble on and pick the hairs out of my teeth. That was one of my favourite treats.

£8.50 for dripping on toast - he's having a laugh!

We get rag puddings from our local chippy. They are delicious, especially on a cold night.

Why doesn't supermarket bacon have rinds on any more? I love bacon rind.

Hi ESP

My grandpa used to make us a lovely "Ox-tail soup" with pearl barley, carrots and onions and a bit of ox-tail of course. It was his speciality and he'd make it for us all about once a week whilst he lived with us for several years when I was a teenager. He was born in the Victorian era [hgrin]

Turkey dripping on toast is my mums favourite part of Christmas.

Ah yes chip pan fires. She destroyed our kitchen with one of those beauties.

Happy memories!

Juggling That sounds lovely, I think I will give it a try.

My mother had a chip pan filled with lard. No fires but one day she dropped it and there was a layer of lard all over the kitchen. Not nice at all. Although she did get a new carpet so all was not lost.

juggling

My Grandpa made oxtail as well

& tripe & onions & welsh rarebit & also his own jams & chutneys in a big copper pan that hung on the wall the rest of the time.
Bread & dripping was a regular meal for him as well.

He was of victorian vintage as well, 1897 to be precise.

My Grandpa was born in 1896 and claimed to remember something about Queen Victoria's funeral. He did a little bit of flying in the RAF at the end of the First World War - luckily not too much or he mightn't have survived ?
He always was a lucky and cheeky chap
Good to remember his Ox-tail stew !

• Glad you might give it a whirl ESP

I used to love dripping on bread, especially the jelly bits. I had to have salt on it as well.
Of course Marco whatsisname is being cheeky charging that price but I suppose some people will pay it.
I used to love fried bread done in the bacon fat too, especially if there were juices from fried tomatoes as well.

BearCrumble so do I. Tesco Value and Asda Smart Price do a rind-on middle bacon which is pretty yum.

I like dripping on toast, it is the traditional Boxing Day breakfast in my family. But it should be hot toast which is scraped with the white lardy top bit, with the jelly bit mushed on the top. Yum.