Add 'Remainers' to the list not 'Brexiteers' like 'Yours Truly'.

Edited by Willo (10 Apr 2022 12.35pm)

You’re welcome Badger. Should point out though that I guard my whisky bottle with the determination of the Ukrainians, and….I also like to listen to loud classical music while I’m cooking/getting sloshed. Feel a spot of Wagner and/or Mahler coming on today.
Probably enough to put most people off. 🤣

In olden days when I was still wearing short trousers, as far as I recall, Mum always did a roast on Sunday. The day was something of a ritual of listening to 2 Way Family Favourites while the meal was being prepared followed by The Billy Cotton Band Show, The Navy Lark, Round The Horne, Ray's A Laugh or whatever other comedy radio programme was on while we ate.

I think we usually had beef or pork. Sometimes lamb and for a very special and rare treat, chicken when Dad would open a bottle of Spanish Sauterne which he thought was really fancy.

Thing is that there wasn't the quality or variety of food available then so it meant a lot more than it does today. And the Sunday roast usually provided a few subsequent meals including my favourite Shepherds Pie. Cold meat for sandwiches taken to work, and dripping, also for sandwiches. Dad would ask the butcher for a sheep's head with the eyes still in to see us through the week.

Today we still enjoy a roast on Sunday, but not every week and very rarely during the summer. It's just not the treat or practical necessity it once was.

One thing for sure, as far as I'm concerned, despite the constant advertising of Sunday roasts by pubs and restaurants, I've never found one that I enjoy more than the one prepared and cooked by my wife.

I suspect all of us who grew up in the 1950s share almost exactly these memories! Family Favourites and the Billy Cotton Bandshow and a roast lunch. And then that bloody awful Sing Something Simple later on Sunday afternoon, which to me always signalled that the weekend was coming to an end and it was school tomorrow.
Back then, the country was much more cohesive because millions of us shared the same culture and lifestyle. But God, Sundays were boring!

Goose fat is much better than duck fat! When it comes to cooking roasties.
Perhaps you ought to take a lead and show here exactly what she has been missing all these years a 'Willo' Easter themed roast meal of your own!
marsh fed Welsh lamb, a fine array of 'al dente' spring vegetables, your own slant on roasted potatoes, fresh mint sauce & redcurrant jelly served with a fine jus and a nice bottle of red wine from your own cellar!