Do a deep dive on Fanny Cradock on YouTube and feel ten times worse about your Christmas cooking and planning. This is the sort of person who would have scared the bejesus out of me as a child, almost as much as she would have enthralled me. These days she simply provides fascinating holiday fodder in a season that needs a little blunt trauma to take the edge of the saccharine sweetness of it all.
“May I say how much I admire the housewives of Britain, in these appalling present conditions, for their courage in trying to give their families another super Christmas,” she says with haughty grandeur.
Her personal story is tinged with controversy, and in today’s cancel-happy culture, she’d likely be smeared and dragged and left for obscurity. Instead, she lives on in these video clips, at the most wonderful time of the year, when we most need a frightening specter.
“I have always been extremely rude, and got exactly what I wanted.” – Fanny Cradock
Tell it, Fanny. Tell it.
