>lashings

The word "lashings" is best known from the expression "lashings of ginger beer" in idyllic adventurous summers of the "Famous Five" in the fifties children's books of Enid Blyton. In my mind, it tends to be used with reference to the kind of life where Summers were always sunny and no-one counted calories.

>joint of meat - could be a shoulder, leg of whatever - as Helen says, it's used generically in the UK for the cuts of (usually) lamb/beef or pork that can be (usually)roasted.