can't live without!

Well, yes, it's the taste aspect which puts me off - no problem with fat as we get through rather a lot of butter. I can understand bread and dripping, as it would be meat-flavoured.

I will try it on a very tiny piece of bread.

Just did. It's allright. Rather tasteless if anything. Lard doesn't have a strong taste so it was really just a way of getting sugar to stick to bread, I suppose. I can see why kids would like it. I think I can live without any more of it though.

Used to ask my Granny for 'sugar butties', still remember the crunch; must have been a thing just after the war when stuff was still rationed.

Mayonnaise
Fish
Yoghurt

Fish, redbush tea, salad

I could understand eating dripping, despite being a veggie, as it has flavour. but lard!!! Yuk.

Is Redbush tea addictive? Even though, when I first tasted it I thought I was drinking TCP, I now get all fidgety if I run out of it. We used to eat bread and lard [had to have salt with it] along with sugar sandwiches and pigs feet.

My dad used to make us sugar sandwiches every now and again (as a treat) but mum was horrified! I suspect she thought it was common.

There's no food that I couldn't live without, because due to intolerances I did have to live without them for years, but I would definitely crave a cup mug of tea, especially in the morning.

HollyDaze has an edible hot water bottle

The OP didn't say things had to be edible rosesarered but as my hot water bottle is very dear to me, I am happy to try and eat it to keep it on my list

I couldn't manage without
Bread,any sort but particularly tiger bread.
Tea
Rice, basmati and pudding.

Toast - pref brown whole meal, but any toast will do, best with butter and Marmite,
Mayonnaise - if salad accompaniment isn't available good chips will do,
Bacon - good back bacon fried until the fat is crispy.

(I had sugar sandwiches most days after school - cheapest white bread, margarine, then made I believe from Texan oil now illegal, and white granulated sugar. Then off next door to share toast and well salted dripping with my granddad. Bad, very bad!)

We really are a savoury lot - is it an age thing?

Never heard of tiger bread Hilda what is it ?

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_bread - and rolls!

Also found in Tesco and probably elsewhere

Sprinkles sandwiches too! Very crunchy!
Lard however, disgusting. On so many levels.

Tiger bread is crusty white bread with a slightly stripey top [nearly all supermarkets sell it, and Sainsburys sell giraffe bread as well!]Could never bring myself to eat anything with lard on it, or [even as a child, sugar on bread.]HollyDaze Yes, I should have said edible I guess [but I did put this on the food thread.]You do seem very fond of the hot water bottle [even in July?] so you can keep it and you needn't eat it.

If I had been asked this question when I was about 10 years old I would have said chip butties
bacon butties
fish finger butties [how were we all so thin as children?]

You still haven't asked your DH's what their 3 can't live withouts are?

Tegan agree about redbush tea! I changed years ago to redbush and it's my main beveridge every day.(smile)

I drank redbush tea for a very long time, but now I can't stand it! Just went off it (not pregnant!)

This is what the ladies drink in the Number 1 ladies Detective Agency isn't it?What does red bush tea taste like? Please don't say red bushes.

I sent them all my spare packets. They are trying to work out where they came from.

Next books in the series: 'The Full Cupboard of Rooibos Tea'

It tastes of TCP roses. But, strangely enough, only the first time you drink it. After that it just tastes lovely in an interesting way.