Fanny cradock and transgenderism

[Purplewithgreenspots]

How is she anything to do with the new gender politics? According to The Times, a celebration about her in Waltham forest will be ‘very queer’, including style, food, gender politics and aspiration. I thought she was just a cook but correct me if I’m wrong.

She had quite an eventful life, maybe that means queer now?

"And may all your cakes turn out like Fannys."

Maybe she is popular with people who think Dick can be Fanny?

As Dr. Spooner would say, "three cheers for our queer old dean"!

I thought the thread was Cockney rhyming slang for Dr Haddock..

Fanny Cradock was a very scary, apparently not very nice woman whose recipes belong to a very bygone age.

I commend her short series of Xmas programmes from the second half of the 1970s for anyone who wants a laugh in the run-up to Xmas - what she does with mincemeat makes your bum go funny, for example.

"Queer theory" is bollocks - unless they're using 'queer' in the sense my octogenarian Dad does, to mean 'strange'.

She was quite odd-looking, with heavy, artificial-looking makeup and hair that had been processed to within an inch of its life. I can only assume some people have thought she was actually a drag act.

Bygone age The main thing I remember about the show is that she was totally in charge. Johnny was very much the side kick, leading to lots of gags about him being 'hen pecked' etc etc.

If there was innuendo and drag, I can only say it went totally over my (very young) head

I can only remember her piping green potato round the edge of a scallop shell. Very entertaining but not much use cooking wise.

When I am cooking I tell DS he can be my Johnny and do the washing up and he looks

From what you've said OP, it looks like queer is being used in the way I would have used camp and kitsch in the 80s/90s onwards

I remember the green potato too! Sticks in the mind that sort of thing

Rhyming slang for Dr Haddock
Snort!

Good call Kat!

Can we just call him Fanny for short...?

On the Xmas programmes, she does some immense stuff with massive choux pastries and lurid green and pink icing that she lathers on about half an inch thick.

They're all on Youtube, but this is my favourite:

Can we just call him Fanny for short...?

That would be useful in specific thread titles, to avoid the monitors...I doubt he'd go near a thread with Fanny in the title.

She died in the nursing home my DF worked in outside Eastbourne, she was definitely female.

Vicky that episode is particularly terrifying. One in a Negligé, one in a nightie. And everything she makes looks unpalatable.

Oooh, the last tart looked like a bedsore.
I thought the eyebrows were a tad optimistic.

Next up, Mrs Beeton was a TW!

Isn't Fanny a queer icon in the same way Judy Garland was? No particular reason, just adopted into the friends of Dorothy.

HAHAHAHA We used to do Fanny Craddock cookery demonstrations in the garden with buckets, mud and worms, potatoes and stuff. I can see why now - it is all the bossy shouting.

My mum used to think she was awful. I can see why now.

Mincemeat omelette

Please please can we use Fanny for Dr Haddock? It's just too good

I still have the BBC cookery books from her programmes.

Her profiteroles were especially delightful.