Boiled potatoes have no place on a roast dinner!

Whispers - I prefer mash to roast potatoes. Although DD does make cracking roast potatoes.

The best boiled potatoes I have ever had were in Portugal and the Azores. They were firm and waxy, salty and full of flavour. I have never had such delicious boiled potatoes anywhere else.

Boiled potatoes are the most pointless potato, unless they're buttered jersey royals in a salad or with fish. Waste of plate space!

Roast potatoes are the whole point of a roast dinner. Why would you settle for anything less?

I definitely have two types of potato, usually roast potatoes and mash. I find them filling and love the other vegetables too. Roast and all the trimmings right there 😊

Growing up we had boiled potatoes as an addition to roast, without necessarily mashing them.

I can only fit enough roast potatoes into the oven to not need mash if there are less than 6 of us. So a mid-week mini roast for example.
On Sundays and special days there are always too many people for only roast potatoes.
We do often have leftover mash, so that gets used up during the week.

I can't remember the last time I had a boiled potato.
Roasted or mashed are what we have.

Apart from new potatoes I think boiled potatoes are an abomination, something my Gran and Mum served back in the 70's. There are much nicer alternatives, but yes think we would of had them served together

Does it matter? Have what you like.

If he wants them to figure on the menu but stay uneaten, he's ridiculous.
If he fancies boiled potatoes, then he can make himself boiled potatoes.

I think your dh parents were Irish
I remember going to his parents one Christmas Day .. plain spuds

nothing else offered (other than meat and veg)

dh said it was one of the best dinners he ever had

My DH wants boiled potatoes too.
Me, personally, I am not pro having any other potatoe with the lovely and yummy roasties. But I cook the boiled ones for him.

No! Boiled potatoes are sad! You do mash and roasties, that's the rule 😅

My DH insists on mashed potatoes as well as roast. I make some but don’t eat them obvs.

He is a heathen and I should LTB.

Edit: <reads thread> oh I do Yorkshires tho. I did cauli cheese too this year but there weren’t many takers.

IMPORTANT I always do loads and loads of roasties. There were enough to serve everyone on leftover-meal day (27 Dec) as well.

YANBU. Likewise,mashed potato has no place in a roast dinner.

When my Nan was alive we had to get a tin of marrow fat peas in when she came for Sunday lunch and Christmas and jar of red cabbage.

I just remembered to humour a horrid relative we used to have LEO dried peas with a roast dinner. They were horrible.

My mum was nominally Irish but grew up in the Midlands. She'd put boiled spuds with everything when we were young (plus a lake of gravy), but a Sunday roast was inviolate.

We occasionally had a few boiled potatoes with a roast dinner when I was growing up. It wasn’t an everyday week thing though.

I’m fussy about boiled potatoes and only like them if the skin has been left on. Usually only eat boiled potatoes when Jersey Royals are in season these days - that variety of spud is delicious.

One of my favourites from the last few years to have for a Christmas Day lunch/dinner on the subject of potatoes though - hasselback potatoes with bacon! https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hasselbackbacon61171
Yum!

I'm not a big fan of boiled (or steamed) potatoes, they're ok but I'd rather have mash and/or roasties (or fried tbh!) any day. However my DGM and my DM, and my MIL, both have always done new potatoes boiled or in the steamer as part of their xmas day dinners so I did think this was normal!

At what point does someone choose a boiled potato over another roastie?! I'd never pick a a boiled potato over a lovely, crispy and fluffy roastie. And I don't mind boiled potatoes, but they are the poor relation when they're beside a roast potato.

He misunderstood. His family did it because someone in their family couldn’t/didnt eat roast potatoes for taste/ health reasons and he thought it’s a thing. It’s not. It’s like vegetarian families don’t serve turkey.

Why on earth someone would waste stomach and plate space on a boiled potato with a Christmas dinner is beyond me. Never heard of such a thing.
I have heard of mash, though as much as I love mash I’d never add it to a roast.
Yorkshires are a must though, no matter what meat you have.

My dad grew up in South Africa and it was (apparently?) traditional to have rice with a roast. As it was also in addition to roasties, my mum (Irish) had no objection, and I quite like it myself. However, the face DH pulled when I even suggested it made me think again. As he has given up sweetcorn (blee) on a roast for my sake, I'm happy to lose the rice. More room for roasties!

I think generally this is a tradition in larger families because you need space for good roast potatoes and there simply isn't enough. Mash works better than boiled imho but in our house it's just roasties

My parents used to do mash, roast and new boiled potatoes with roasts. We dropped mash as no one was that keen on it once DC was older.