Is It Ok To Go Back To Eating Dripping Sandwiches?

[sandyRoe]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/10703970/No-link-found-between-saturated-fat-and-heart-disease.html

[EcclesCake]

individually they are high in calories. It doesn't mean they can't be a part of a balanced diet though.

There are no bad foods, just bad diets.

[paddywak]

I didn't know we had to stop eating it.

[sandyRoe]

I think the Mediterranean Diet is neither good or bad. It's all the red wine that continentals drink that accounts for their longevity.
I'm not so sure about pork pies. Wasn't it Pitt the Younger who ordered a Bellamy's pie to be delivered and then dropped dead just thinking about it?

[Old_Geezer]

Really Sandy ! Ok where is the wine of the week thread for this week .....
(Hope it's a medium red from somewhere in the Med.)

[woofgang]

sandy, are you saying that you ever stopped?

[gness]

Maybe Sandy's been like me.....a closet dripping eater....to get away from the misguided nagging....☺

[sunny-dave]

Does this mean I can now buy Lard without a Doctor's Note?

[Elina]

I feel a bit queazy now ;0/

[sandyRoe]

You can buy a 425gm tub(1lb in old money). It's slightly viscous and makes a great snack of an evening sitting dipping your fingers into it and licking them clean as you watch the television.

[sandyRoe]

There must be a calorie or two in a pound of lard, but who's counting?

[sunny-dave]

mmmmm - then if you run your fingers through your hair you save on Brylcreem too ...

[sandyRoe]

For them who has hair it saves on the towels too.

[humbersloop]

...images not to dwell on, parts 1 and 2

[jno]

a closet dripping eater? I call the stuff dripping in my closet "mould" and don't normally eat it at all.

[Tilly2]

Dripping has to have salt on it and salt is bad for you, as we all know.

According to an article in this week's Observer magazine, porridge and fruit are bad for you because of the sugar. I am terribly confused.

Actually, I don't think I could eat dripping now, or bacon grease. I could eat a pork pie though, with a bit of crust attached.

[sandyRoe]

Porridge made with water only, none of your southern frippery-sugar or honey- or northern austerity-salt- is a superfood.

[humbersloop]

no it's not sandy, it's plain gruel

[Tilly2]

Apparently not Sandy (according to the article) Porridge is just a big bowl of sugar producing starch.

[sandyRoe]

That's bad news. One of my last remaining pleasures in life was a breakfast of 5 heaped tablespoons of oats made into gruel with half a litre of water.

[Tilly2]

'was' Sandy? What do you eat now?