I'm coming to the conclusion that New Zealand English (lovingly known as "Zild") isn't English-based or Americanised, it's been damned well balkanised!

We use "grease" for all of the meanings mentioned above. Context sorts out the differences. After all, you may cook a burger patty in its own grease, but you sure as shootin' won't cook it in axle grease. Well you might, but I wouldn't. Quordlepleen may disagree ...

"Fat" and "grease" are interchangeable, but only up to a point. There are implications in both words which mean that in some cases you'd use "fat" or "grease" and at other times only "fat" or "grease".


The idiot also known as Capfka ...