Adam Woodgate

@yorkshirepost a mass transit system has been on the cards in this city for nearly all my life. Leeds taxpayers have spent millions getting roads ready but nothing happens. I’m sure I read that cities in Europe that are smaller than Leeds have established rapid transit systems.

trib.al/kaHvEjw Leeds United: mass transit agreement signed with mayor to boost Elland Road expansion

Amazing ❤️

@AllenCummings6 Sad that he’s not been nominated as manager of the season.

Full credit to Daniel Farke! A manager who prepared his team professionally and sent them out to play with honesty and integrity! Massive credit to that man 👏👏👏 #LUFC

@TPEassist Appreciate your feedback. However, that was not my point. There was a lack of in-station, on-train and email communication about this in the run up to the closure of the line to Huddersfield. It’s a pretty poor show.

@AdamMWoodgate Hi Adam, at the moment there is engineering works at Huddersfield so services are having to divert and this is why the journey time is currently extended. This particular closure is until Monday 25th May. ^Chloe

@TPEassist the lack of communication about the prolonged diversion of Leeds to Man Vic services is a pretty poor show. No publicity at either Leeds or Manchester or in trains in the last week. How long will this disruption last?

Hey @Morrisons I will never buy ONE thing from you ever again unless this guy, trying to stop shoplifting, is reinstated. RETWEET IF YOU AGREE

@SamaHoole Come to Yorkshire - try Murgatroyds near Leeds Bradford airport. Amazing fish and chips done proper in beef dripping

British chip shops were culinary institutions. Beef dripping or lard, high heat, fluffy potatoes. The result was legendary: crispy exterior, steaming interior, savory satisfaction that defined comfort food. The fat mattered. Beef dripping has a high smoke point and distinctive flavor. It penetrates the potato surface without making it greasy. The chips taste like meat and potatoes: protein and carbohydrates, the foods that built empires. 1980s: Health campaigning against saturated fats intensifies. The same American dietary advice that ruined McDonald's crosses the Atlantic. British health authorities start pressuring chip shops to switch to "healthier" vegetable oils. The economics align with the health claims. Vegetable oils are cheaper than dripping. Chip shops operating on thin margins can reduce costs while claiming they've made a healthy choice. Nobody mentions that the new oils oxidize rapidly at frying temperatures. One by one, chip shops switch. The owners don't want to: they know the product is worse. But customer pressure mounts. People ask: "Do you use beef dripping? That's bad for your heart." The health narrative overwhelms culinary tradition. By the 1990s, most chip shops are frying in vegetable oil. The chips taste subtly worse. Less savory. Slightly different texture. The difference isn't dramatic enough for most people to consciously notice, but it's there. The few shops still using dripping become outliers. They market it as a unique selling point: "Traditional cooking methods." But they're swimming against the tide. The infrastructure has shifted. Suppliers stock vegetable oils. Equipment is designed for seed oils. Using animal fats becomes increasingly difficult. Modern chip shops using seed oils don't advertise it. They just say "vegetable oil" on signs if anything. Customers assume this is normal, better even. The institutional memory of how chips used to taste has faded. Some shops have attempted to return to beef dripping. Customer response is mixed. Younger people think it tastes strange. They've been trained on the vegetable oil version. The "authentic" taste seems wrong because it's unfamiliar. The tragedy isn't just worse chips. It's the loss of institutional knowledge. New chip shop owners never learned to cook in dripping. The techniques are fading. The supply chains have moved on. Even if they wanted to use traditional fats, finding reliable suppliers is difficult. This is cultural erasure through industrial substitution. A food tradition central to British working-class culture was quietly replaced with industrial alternatives. The name stayed the same. The product fundamentally changed. Your local chippy is frying in the same oils that Chinese takeaways and fried chicken shops use. Nothing distinctive. Nothing traditional. Just industrial seed oils producing industrial food. The chip shop was a place where cheap ingredients became magnificent through proper technique and good fat. Now it's a place where cheap ingredients remain cheap through cheaper fat. British culinary heritage included very few global standouts. Fish and chips was one of them. We handed it over to industrial oils without a fight. The chips you eat today are edible. They're not the chips that defined a culture.

Food security should be top of any government. Time to skip the supermarkets and go to farm shops and support local markets

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@truemagic68 @TrisOsborneMP So sad that these elected officials have little concept of who pulls the economic levers. Hope you’re keeping well David and compliments of the season to you.

@TrisOsborneMP Disappointing - We covered that subject yesterday. No point repeating why its nonsense! Have a good day!

@TheLeedsPress Please Nooooooooo

He is one of the top two contenders to replace Daniel Farke #LUFC

@TPEassist is there any reason why the 16:30 Man Vic to Hull is returning to Stalybridge?

@TheLeedsPress Another manager deserves a chance to turn things around.

Enough is enough #lufc

@TheLeedsPress A point 🙏

Next 4 Premier League games... How many points? #LUFC

@marshyleeds Didn’t look like the same team that beat WHU. The in-game management is atrocious.

Bogged down by the flu and I have to say that hasn’t helped my mood today. We are awful. Players didn’t perform and we’re a side that lacks imagination, cohesion and creativity. It’s a terrible spectacle. Not going to name individuals but there’s a few in this side not up to it.

Repost and drop a 👍 if you are going to wear a poppy this year?

@christiancalgie How is that going to work at the dozens and dozens of unmanned stations around Britain’s rail network?

NEW: Defence Secretary John Healey fails to rule out introducing airport security-style checks at train stations express.co.uk/news/politics/…

@ElephantSignal A

🚨BREAKING: Would you switch your internet carrier to Starlink if it only costs $10 a month for unlimited data worldwide and gets free X premium? A. Yes B. No

@_RB_Ash 1974

What year did Leeds fans on here start supporting Leeds? I'll start, June 2018. #LUFC

James Whale was part of my childhood listening to Radio Aire late at night. An amazing broadcaster and communicator. 😔#RIP🙏