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Boiled potatoes have no place on a roast dinner!

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BoiledOrRoastPotatoes · 29/12/2024 08:31

My DP was confused as to why I wasn’t cooking some boiled potatoes to go along with the roast potatoes on our Christmas dinner.

Who does this?! He maintains that it is a thing - his DM and DGM did them so he thinks that everyone has both roast potatoes and boiled potatoes on a roast. Google suggests he is wrong.

What do the wise people of MN think?

YABU = yes boiled potatoes and roast potatoes together on a roast dinner are normal.

YANBU = roast potatoes are the king of potatoes on a roast and boring boiled potatoes are taking up space that could be more delicious roasties!

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GeorgeMichaelsCat · 29/12/2024 09:49

Haroldwilson · 29/12/2024 08:43

Boiled potatoes are great when they're good potatoes with some butter. They don't belong with a roast.

Op why doesn't your dp make the dinner next time?

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Doesn't matter what potato you use, they are dry and tasteless. You'll never convince me otherwise 😉

useitorlose · 29/12/2024 09:45

Boiled potatoes have no place anywhere. DH is from the Midlands and has Irish parents and his normal growing up roast always included boiled potatoes. Mine didn't.

caramac04 · 29/12/2024 09:44

Boiled potatoes are a bit meh unless they’re new potatoes and don’t really deserve plate space at all.
I did do mash as well as roast potatoes because my dgc do not eat roast potatoes. Yes you read that correctly. The dgc (tweens and teens not toddlers) do not eat roast potatoes. Weirdos but I love them.

ForTheLoveOfJackDaniels · 29/12/2024 09:44

You are all wrong and should be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves.

Mash, cauliflower cheese, sweetcorn, bread sauce amongst other abominations!

What's wrong with you people 😁.

Livinginadream · 29/12/2024 09:44

ueberlin2030 · 29/12/2024 09:40

I find this very odd - different folk like different things, and while I'd prefer roasties, it's up to him what he enjoys.

Not if you're the one cooking it

ueberlin2030 · 29/12/2024 09:40

I find this very odd - different folk like different things, and while I'd prefer roasties, it's up to him what he enjoys.

julie81 · 29/12/2024 09:38

As a child we would be given mash or boiled and then each person would be offered a roast or too. They were never the main potato. Most restaurants and pubs at that time would also just offerer a couple of potatoes. This was 70's though. I only do roast myself as that's what we prefer.

Wonderwall23 · 29/12/2024 09:35

Yanbu. Boiled potatoes have no place on any dinner.

fanaticalfairy · 29/12/2024 09:33

StepAwayFromMyCoffee · 29/12/2024 09:19

I beg your pardon???? Sweetcorn is the king of veggies and should always be on a roast.

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Leave the country immediately for your own safety.

Giggorata · 29/12/2024 09:23

I really don't see the point of having any other incarnation of potato than roasties with a roast dinner. What a let down.

StepAwayFromMyCoffee · 29/12/2024 09:19

Poppins21 · 29/12/2024 08:34

Sweetcorn has no place on a roast dinner plate 😂

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I beg your pardon???? Sweetcorn is the king of veggies and should always be on a roast.

StepAwayFromMyCoffee · 29/12/2024 09:18

Yuk, no thanks! Boiled potatoes are gross at the best of times but I definitely wouldn’t want them spoiling a lovely roast dinner 😋

foyc · 29/12/2024 09:15

I prefer boiled to roast

But, but, but, how?! They don't taste of anything?!

JustAnotherPieceOfCake · 29/12/2024 09:10

Plain, boiled potatoes shouldn't be on ANY dinner

ForTheLoveOfJackDaniels · 29/12/2024 09:09

How very dare you. I prefer boiled to roast, so have both. Nothing wrong with it. I've seen mash and even cauliflower cheese on a roast dinner. What's that all about....

motherofdragons79 · 29/12/2024 09:07

FranklySonImTheGaffer · 29/12/2024 09:01

Welsh valleys resident here and everyone I know (including restaurants) do boiled and roast potatoes on a roast dinner.
I'm the only one I know that alters that to mash 🤷‍♀️
Just roasties would feel weird to me.

Will say that I will also put a Yorkshire pudding on regardless of what meat we're eating and DH has added sweetcorn to our dinners which I unexpectedly enjoy.

Yep same here!! 👋

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 29/12/2024 09:05

@BoiledOrRoastPotatoes you are not wrong!! some of the pics I have seen on rate my roast are absolutely ridiculous!! roast potatoes, mashed potatoes baby potatoes all on the one plate, every kind of vegetable you could think of, including cauliflower and cheese sauce!!! and dont forget the yorkshire pudding which apparently has to go on every plate of food, even a plate of mince and tatties!!!! then of course it is drowned in gravy and killed with pepper!!! the plates must actually be platters because i could not get all that food on my plates! who needs to eat that much food anyway? it is just greed!

FranklySonImTheGaffer · 29/12/2024 09:01

Welsh valleys resident here and everyone I know (including restaurants) do boiled and roast potatoes on a roast dinner.
I'm the only one I know that alters that to mash 🤷‍♀️
Just roasties would feel weird to me.

Will say that I will also put a Yorkshire pudding on regardless of what meat we're eating and DH has added sweetcorn to our dinners which I unexpectedly enjoy.

99point6 · 29/12/2024 08:59

I would expect boiled potatoes are a hangover from being a cheap filler in poorer times. Not as pleasant as Yorkshires or dumplings. No need now but traditions can be hard to break.

Ohmych · 29/12/2024 08:59

Dp insists on having boiled potatoes with Christmas dinner. He just has them on his plate no one else is weird enough to join him. He also has fried egg on top of pizza so make of that what you like.

Houseplanter · 29/12/2024 08:56

Maybe a generational thing cos my parents would have had this.

They had boiled with just about everything; a roast potato was a treat on a Sunday.

Also mashed were just mashed up boiled (awful) whereas 'creamed' were with milk and butter.

A jacket potato was extremely rare as having the oven on for that long was wasteful Shock

FiveShelties · 29/12/2024 08:53

Sirzy · 29/12/2024 08:50

On the Yorkshire pudding thing my Grandfather was from Yorkshire and he was aghast at anything other than Yorkshire pudding as a starter (and only when having roast beef!)

My Mum said, as a child, they always had Yorkshires as a starter on Sunday so that they did not need much meat with their Sunday Lunch.

RoseDog · 29/12/2024 08:53

I have boiled potato ptsd, my mum either over cooked them to mush or undercooked them so they were still hard in the middle and you had to finish what's on your plate, since moving out 22 years ago I have never cooked or eaten a plain boiled potato!

I will eat all other types of potato including boiled new potatoes when in season!

StampOnTheGround · 29/12/2024 08:52

Boiled potatoes are horrible - no place anywhere, especially a roast dinner!

AnnieMay2000 · 29/12/2024 08:51

We always have mash and roasties. The odd time croquettes too. We are Irish 😃