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lard lol.

Yeah yummy. My mum would never use oil only lard, all of us love them. I might make some for tea with some fried eggs. Jackie:o)

Yuk Puss were they really? When I was a teen and a veggie I didnt think about that when I had chips! Caz xxx

hi jackie i used to love my nans on a saturday we had it with fag ash too we would watch her she would have a fag in her mouth and never take it out and the ash would just drop off lol hi caz think up north they still use it in the chippies i had a craving with my daughter for chips in lard lol i cooked them and never again

Fag ash and chips now that takes me back. lol Jackie:o)

Yea i still use lard never oil, for all me cooking.. Lilx

Hi, Don't eat chips that often but must confess I use lard when I make them. That's how my mum always did them. They are delicious, lovely pale golden colour is how I like them. I just drain them on kitchen roll. I especially love them with a cold meat salad and lashings of salt and salad cream. Aileen xx

Beef dripping!!!

guess what im having for dinner then lol

Hi Tony, I cook my roast potatoes and yorkies in beef dripping. Delicious. Aileen xx

Hi Puss i only use lard cant be doing with oil and you have made me fall of my chair with larfter fag ash pmsl Rosex

and goose fat gives em that crispy texture

We always have cold meat, pickles and chips cooked in lard on boxing day. Jackie

jackie youve got me wanting lardy chips now lol hi lairy hope you didnt hurt yourself thing is when she got senile she forgot she smoked and just used to pinch her great grandchildrens sweets instead and swore shed never smoked

Aileen, Being a northerner and from a family that owned fish & chip shops all over the North east, dripping is close to my heart!! Feeling a bit nostalgic now...... Seeing this thread has given me the urge to go out and buy myself a proper chip pan, and say good bye to oven chips. T

lol tony did you know the man in farringdon in the 70s he made the best lardy chips and batter bits and thorney close , sunderland

I've always used lard, even when I had an electric fryer I used lard, but it broke on me and I've gone back to the old chip pan that used to belong to my Mum. I love cooking them and them putting them in the oven to soften up abit while I cook the rest of the meal. uhmmmmmmmm yummy think I might go and do myself some for my lunch. Helen

Chips and roast potatoes never tasted better than cooked in lard. But of course I have to do the healthy thing, in oven, and as a rare treat. Sunny R

hi helen what have i done headlines tomorrow lard has sold out lol.

I remember my grandad, when he switched the ranges off on a saturday night, would throw a couple of half crowns into the hot dripping. 'There's your bonus for changing the dripping' he would say and on Monday the staff would clean out the solidifed dripping and ' collect' their bonus. So, who's having PROPER chips tomorrow?