Does anyone eat meat anymore without sauces and marinates?

Well I’m 57 and meat has always come with sauces / gravy. There are a lot more spices used nowadays though. Roast chicken had gravy and bread sauce, apple sauce for pork, mint sauce for lamb and mustard or horseradish for beef, plus gravy of course. And ketchup, brown sauce, salad cream, french dressing, were all available ready made and mass market. I do like plain grilled meat and fish, even then I tend to add chutneys or something, my monthly village market has a stall that sells delicious chutneys.

I always make ‘proper’ gravy for a roast, but I wouldn’t count that as a sauce.

The only meat dishes I eat without sauce are cabbage & ham and sausages & mash. I tend to serve most meat with a gravy or sauce. Even my fry up needs a good dollop of HP or Ballymaloe relish.

Good steak doesn’t need anything else
Roast chicken - I just insert a whole lemon and onion inside cavity and wrap in foil
Slow roast lamb or beef doesn’t need anything else
Gammon and bacon as they are
I do use rubs on pork though as find it quite bland otherwise

Depends what you put with it to flavour it while it's poaching. I include lots of onion and carrot and a whole bunch of herbs. The finished chicken is moist and very flavourful

Yep, I happily eat a good ribeye with salt and pepper, and roast lamb, chicken and pork without sauces.

Yes! But am not living in Uk. Here in Italy we rarely use sauces, most meat, fish and veg is just given a pinch of salt, a squeeze of lemon and a splash of very good quality extra virgin olive oil after it's cooked and that's it!

Me. I don't really like any sauces. I buy good quality meat and eat it with a bit of salt and sometimes pepper. I buy it because I like the taste of meat, so why would I want a load of slop hiding the flavour? This tracks with how I eat generally, tbh, I don't really enjoy sloppy or wet types of food, never have.

Gravy I would only have a little if the meat was dry (never happens at home, but sometimes if eating out).

Such a weird thing to be judgy about.

We always have flavoured or seasoned meat. Steak has steak seasoning. Pork and Chicken is BBQ, Chinese or salt and pepper chilli seasoning. We don't even eat unsmoked bacon.

I eat a lot of meat recently to up my protein, my evening meals are mainly flavoured chicken thighs with veg.

I eat good quality meat & don't put anything on it. Salt on chicken but that's it.

Roast beef (or any roast)
Chicken
Turkey
Steaks
Chops, lamb & pork
With gammon I'd have pineapple on it as outside I'd find it too salty but I almost never have that.

I never liked sauces/wet food as a child & that has stuck.

Some variations I will have are homemade apple sauce with pork or cheese chops.

I have gravy at Xmas but not year round.

It's a good question. I'm sure way, way back when I would occasionally eat plain chicken breast or something - my other half is a gravy freak though , so even if eating plain sausages I have some gravy on it but wasn't fussed on gravy before him. But otherwise, yes, I marinate most things, chicken thighs in a lemony garlic one is my favourite. The only exception would be a steak, can enjoy that with just a bit of mustard, but obviously some of the cooking juices.

I guess cooking expectations are higher nowadays and we can get a bit spoiled. It's amazing how nice a piece of plain cold cooked chicken with salt and pepper is, though.

Roast chicken drumsticks and thighs are delicious in picnics and can be eaten hot or cold.

Same

I don’t put anything on a roast chicken. But otherwise yes, always some form of flavouring. Even if it’s just Cajun spices or something like that.

I don't understand the 'roast' comments. Surely you have gravy with your roast.

And what do you mean by 'plain' OP? No spices?
I don't think I've ever eaten 'plain' meat.

@whatonearthisgoingonnow - steak is probably the only meat I'd agree with. But still cook mine with a little garlic.

No sauce on a burger for me, otherwise I would’ve said 🤣

But v true about the pasta bake sauce, I was more focusing on marinating the actual sausage first, which I don’t do.

A good steak I'll happily have with just veg. And pork belly too.

Last weekend I got a rotisserie chicken from m&s and it was so good just on its own.

Pork chops are awful. Char Sui pork on the other hand...

Would you not put ketchup or bbq sauce on a burger?

presumably if sausages are going in a pasta bake there’s a sauce in there too, you’re not just doing pasta and sausage?

I’m veggie now but can’t remember ever eating “plain” meat. Ketchup or salt as basic in your sausage or bacon sarnie, then lemon juice with roast chicken, au poivre with steak, even something as simple as butter or garlic butter.

A lovely pork chop is ruined by a marinade

Ohhh agree on the duck actually. And most offal. Haggis too, but that's already spiced so may not count.

Steak, chicken, lamb- although the lamb would always have a gravy made from the juices, whereas the chicken or steak I'd happily have it as it comes on a salad or with chips etc.

I might use marinades or rubs, but not often.

My DH will only eat plain meat. Just a bit of sea salt on steak etc. He thinks sauces ruin the meat.

To be fair he usually buys really high quality meat, you only really need sauces if you're trying to hide a cheap cut or make it stretch.