Bread and Dripping

What is the weirdest food combination you enjoy?

To me, honestly, I don’t believe any food combination I enjoy is weird. And that’s the thing with this question, with most people they would view their awkward combinations as totally normal.

Some choices early in life are made for you purely as a result of whatever was available at the time and in many situations as a result of what money was available. My early life had some really strange combinations that would be looked on as awful nowadays, but back then it was totally the norm.

I give you bread and dripping as one example.

All the fat that was accumulated from cooking during the week went into a big bowl on the kitchen window, it looked just like the layers you’d find in the earths crust as every layer of fat had its own colour and consistency, so if you wanted a snack, some toast and a scrape of whatever was in the bowl was the order of the day. How bad does that sound now?

In comparison to what went on then, my current combinations are quite tame, here’s a few:

  • Marmite: with or without cheese is glorious, in a sausage sandwich it is another level, cooking mushrooms in it is something else. Not everyone’s favourite taste.
  • My family’s pet hate with me is that I always have red and brown sauce on a Sunday roast. I get the feeling they’d rather see me eat on my own than in their company.
  • Beer and ice cream. I just love having an ice cream if one is available when I have a beer. I think the tastes are super complimentary.

Well, that’s a few of mine, what combinations do you enjoy. I won’t judge, that’s not me I’m just genuinely interested in what you class as a weird combination. You never know it might be something I’m willing to try.

Have a great day everyone.

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Author: Balders

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7 thoughts on “Bread and Dripping”

  1. You’re right. They are kinda weird- but then you have to remember I am an American- and anything outside our own culture sounds weird to us. Hey wait a minute- Do we even have a culture? I’m not sure….

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  2. My nan used to do the beef dripping thing, and use lard and goose fat which she got from a neighbour for nearly everything. There wasn’t any food as tasty as the meals she cooked.
    Probably my most “weird” but not really is a sandwich with lots of salad cream instead of butter, ham, and then smashed pickled onion crisps. Or cheese, chips and curry sauce. Both of which my son says, “that’s terrible how can you eat that” when I eat them, which for some reason, makes me find them even more tasty,

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