“Put in a pound of Lard”
As I dry fried some bacon on Friday lunch time I got to thinking about a day long ago when I organised demonstrations of non-stick frying pan in department stores around the UK. In Manchester one day, the lady demonstrator I had hired didn’t turn up and I was faced with fifty or more ladies wanting to see the magic pans in operation. So I got out the eggs, the bacon and the sliced bread and demonstrated cooking a fry up using no oil or fat, just what came out of the bacon.
Later, a woman came up to me and said fried bacon and egg gave her husband a stomach ache. I asked her what she did. “Well, I heat up the frying pan on the stove and then put a pound of lard into it”. Incredulously I asked, what then? “I put in the bacon, the egg and the bread”, she answered.
She tasted my non-stick cooking and said it was better than hers. She bought a pan, and, believe it or not, wrote to the manufacturers a week or so later to say she was now frying without lard and that her husband had had no more stomach upsets. Dr. Skinner had struck again.
