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?

I once worked with a girl who had never had anything like this. Her OH asked for dripping sandwiches so she asked me, I took her to the butchers and she bought a pack of dripping. She had an irate phone call from her OH at lunchtime the next day. She had buttered the bread and sliced the dripping into 1/2" slices and made a sandwich from it !

Yes, MOF exactly right. Tis a boxing day staple. Christmas is not Christmas without it. You have the hot toast/white lardy/jelly bits method spot on as well.

It has to be hot toast - a cold bread sandwich might work if the dripping is still warmish, or if it is spreadable, like turkey dripping. Very solid, cold beef dripping would not work on untoasted bread.

Hmmmmmmm. I am having a Saturated Fat Moment.