When a hamburger is medium rare and fresh off the grill, the grease that runs down your chin is part of the delightfully debauchery of the experience. Once it cools down a little, that same grease is repellent.
Yeah, I love duck, which is exceptionally greasy by almost any metric. But I don’t think I’d like it in a pool of pure grease. A pool of nearly as unhealthy coconut-milk Thai curry on the other hand…
Similarly I like pot-roast in a pool of gravy. But some might call that “swimming in grease” ( it’s typically damn greasy gravy ), so it depends on where the term cuts off.
I will often make great pretense of blotting my specially ordered SIDE of bacon. I don’t want it to be TOO greasy, right? But seriously, who are we kidding? It’s pig and fat. Any help will be minimal. I just pull off the 100% fat bits and try not to think about it too much.