[Ian Robinson]

I guess I got the taste for it , though I don't remember ever actually eating dripping on toast , or bread fried in dripping , BUT >.... I can't resist the lamb seasonings that wind up being fried in the juices that come out those roast legs of lamb I am so fond off and which I do the preparation and roasting off to make sure they are done RIGHT ..... absolutely beautiful .... and probably doesn't help my obesity .... the caramelised sticky solids in the hot dripping fluids that accumulates under the baking rack in the baking dish is VERY YUMMY and NAUGHTY scraped off hot with knife and eaten ....

The dripping thing seems very appreciated by those of scot, irish and welsh decent .... known lots of immigrants who love eating the stuff or cooking with it .... makes very tasty meals .... the fat police and food nazies have a lot to answer for.....

I also remember my wife's pop being partial to dripping used in cooling.

My dad was fostered out in the GD after his mum died and granddad had no job or means of supporting them so he and his sister were fostered out , hated the people who he was fostered to, ran the farm on Ash Island so he told them what he thought of them and ran away and headed to Normanton to hunt and shoot crocs and became a stockman as a teenager and young man duing the GD, and when WWII broke out he road a horse to Brisbane to volunteer for the AIF.
After WWII was over he went looking for his dad and after a few years found him and showed up and introduced himself as his son , granddad's response was so what , and told him to nick off, dad persisted and evenly was accepted by him and they became inseparable.

My wife pours the liquid dripping into an an empty beverage bottle to toss in the bin, next time I do a roast leg of lamb I might rescue some the dripping before I carve the meat and save it for use later.