Let them eat lard

Have you seen the price of butter and cheese? Of course you have.

- Michele Hewitson

Can you believe the price of butter and cheese? Of course you can't.

But we are snooty about cheese at Lush Places, which is partly the reason we are broke. In an act of wild profligacy, we still occasionally make a cheese toasted sandwich. This is because we are addicted to cheese toasted sandwiches made with kimchi, or Korean fermented cabbage. When I was growing up the very idea of eating some stinky foreign muck like kimchi would have been incomprehensible, not that it was available.

So between kimchi and the cheese, our toasted sandwiches probably cost about 10 bucks a pop to make, which is madness.

So I bought a tub of dripping last week. I want to try it on toast. I say “want”. But what I really mean is that I'd better get used to it now before I end up in the workhouse eating toast and dripping as a consequence of going broke buying butter. It sounds disgusting. But my now-retired esteemed editor, a recovering Pom, insists that dripping on toast is fantastic.