When Jenkins moved into music publishing, Tarri continued as a solo act, performing in clubs and theatres.

[1] By her mid-fifties, she developed into a successful "character comedienne"[4] – as she was billed in the Radio Times in 1937 – emphasising her Cockney background, and typically taking on the persona of an earthy, harassed and gossiping working-class charwoman or waitress, often called "Our Ada".

[1] She also made recordings, some with Harry Hemsley, and joined touring shows managed by Jack Hylton.

She featured as the character "Mrs Spam" in the 1943 Frank Randle film Somewhere in Civvies,[7] and won the Sunday Chronicle's "Number 1 Comedienne" award in 1945.

The routine uses rationed meat as a way of making sexual innuendo to conjure up some grotesque, almost poetic images.