Lard withdrawn

[pinkmama]

Hi, odd question, but my mum is here and we are intrigued - does anyone know why Lard has been withdrawn from supermarkets?

[Ailsa]

lardcrisis.com

[bloss]

Message withdrawn

[PocketTasha]

Anyone still there?

[suzywong]

Lard is refined pig fat.
It gives a great short texture to pastry and is good for frying at high temperatures. It has been a stalwart of the British diet for centuries and if consumed in moderation is absolutely fine.

It comes in blocks of hard, greasy white fat.

Must stop typing, drooling with greed just thinking about it.

[marthamoo]

Have to have lard to make my mince pie pastry - far superior to any of the alternatives. It's the only time of year I use it so if it is one of these stupid Government health measures I will be well peed off. How many overweight kids eat any lard - don't think they put it in McDonald's Happy Meals! Bring back lard!

[marthamoo]

Ailsa that link is priceless!

"Wales hit by lard famine!"

You couldn't make it up!

[marthamoo]

Aaargh, the Lard Locator says there is no lard n Macclesfield.

These threads are what I love most about Mumsnet.

[marthamoo]

I'm going on a lard hunt,
I'm going to catch a big one,
It's a beautiful day,
I'm not scared.

[hmb]

I love this thread. And now I am going to sound like a sad, mad old bag!

The diet issue is hiding a vital fact. We have vast numbers of people in this country, adults and children who have no idea what they are eating. We have families who exist of pre-prepared food who don't have the fisrt idea what is going into the food that they buy and eat.

In the good old days when people cooked from scratch they knew how much fat was in a pie, for the simplest reason, they had put it there! So they could make reasonable choices about their fat and salt intake. They may not always have got it right, but at least the basic information was there. This just isn't the case for some kids today.

I teach science. I would say that about 40% of the kids I teach have no real idea what real food is. All of the infomation that they have is provided by advertising....I have lost count of the number of kids with gum disease and rotten teath who tell me that squash and Sunny D are 'healthy'. Many of them cannot, at the age of 11 eat with a knife and fork.

We don't need to have a traffic lights system about food, we need to teach people how to cook! And then Sit down and eat, with a knofe and fork and interested conversation. Bring back cookery lessons , not food tech. Lets get kids to cook meat and two veg, soups, and dare I say it, proper pastry with LARD

HMB, Disgusted Tumbridge Wells

[marthamoo]

Hmb, as ever - you make perfect sense.

Yours,
Lardless, of Macclesfield

[Mirage]

Well said HMB

You can't make proper pastry without Lard.

Does anyone remember eating toast & dripping?I used to love that when I was a kid.

[hmb]

I don't always make sense.....wibble!

I have a training day on behaviour managment today. Took my lightest and nicest day they did!!! Swines. Still it should be good.

[KatieMac]

I let my DD have toast and dripping as a special treat - it can't be any worse for her than a Happy Meal (and she isn't allowed them). A very very occasional treat is 'Dip' a bit of bread dipped in the pan of meat juices while the roast is cooking

[Mirage]

I'm getting obsessed.At ASDA this afternoon,I checked out the lard shelves.The price label had 'withdrawn' written over it.(But they did have a couple of very nice looking tubs of dripping Katiemac).

I'm off to interrogate my friendly butcher tomorrow-I can't make mince pies without lard for goodness sake.

[hatter]

good post hmb. My mum has several times even stunned fellow teachers by making a cake in class (she's a special needs teacher). Wow, they say, I never knew it was that easy

[hatter]

not that my mum makes cakes with lard, you understand

[zaphod]

What exactly IS dripping?

[KatieMac]

Dripping is the fat that comes off the meat when you do a roast. I pour in into a cup and keep in the fridge. I can either reuse for another joint (beef or lamb only) or have on toast.

Dripping makes lovely potatoes (nicer than lard - cos it has the bits off the meat in it)

[KatieMac]

In olden days the beef was spit roasted and the fat dripped into a tray. This tray was used to make the yorkshire puds and if no yorkshire the servants (and children) would get bread and dripping - no meat

I think it's the best bit - toast a thin scrape of dripping (the brown bit at the bottem) and a tiny bit of salt

[biketastic]

totally agree with hmb, but ffs lard!! yuk yuk yuk. Melted pig?? still yuk yuk yuk.
just thought i'd add a voice of dissent on the lard issue.
makes my toes curl to think of it...

[marthamoo]

There's n'owt wrong with a bit of melted pig

[Tortington]

how very apt this thread is. today as a northerner living in the south i endured countless lard comments from my boss as one person asked if i would like a sandwich in a meeting he piped up " she only eats lard" again when i was offered a biscuit in another meeting " nah its a lard only house in her house" i also encountered a deep fried mars bar comment.

these were closely followed by some dodgy ballgown references aimed at a meeting in which 3 gay guys attended and another comment about women drivers - especially those who smoke and drive ( he smokes a bloody cigar)he braked from 40 - 30 in one second flat after i stupidly pointed out a speed camera and then nearly missed knocking over a poor student

i smiled at each one - waited until i got into his car and replied to my boss " i have never met such a bigot in my life - your a fucking disgrace"

no wonder i dont go down well where i work

[PuffTheMagicDragon]

custardo

[PocketTasha]

pmsl! Marthamoo
Lard hunt!
(of course if the book was really called that the government would have to withdraw every copy. Just in case it encouraged kids to eat it raw or something!)

lol, i now have visions of mums all over the uk creeping through rivers and forests to find Lard! Which poses a question... if they have withdrawn it... Where have they PUT it??

[fairyfly]

i am storing it on my backside