Are you particular about any dishes?

[MartagonLilies]

Dishes as in meals, not crockery.
Say you had a roast dinner, would you have to have Yorkshire pudding with any meat you serve, or do you only serve it with beef and mustard. Similarly, pork with the crackling and apple sauce. How about the side dishes? I love sweetcorn for example, though don't think it belongs on a Sunday dinner.
Or Sausage and mash - if you have beans with it, how can you have veg and gravy? Do you go without, or mix it all any way

No sweetcorn with sunday roasts, thought we'll always have yorkshire puddings no matter what the roast meat.

We have veg with sausage and mash, usually carrots and green beans but never beans because gravy plus bean juice is wrong.

If we have shepherds pie I never make gravy with it despite the DCs shouts of "we love the graaaaavy" because we always have beans with it to act as juice.

Also DH has this mad thing called a "piece" at the end of any meal with gravy. He sits til all the food is gone then dunks a slice of bread on his plate, soaks up the gravy then eats the bread. I've genuinely never seen or heard of it before, and to add insult to injury the DC have learned to do it, too.

We had ‘pieces’ as children, but called them something else.
No gravy on chips here because it’s disgusting. Beans with shepherd’s pie? As in baked beans, rather than gravy? Surely you jest....

Honestly, growing up we always had beans with shepherds pie; I can't even fathom how you'd even eat it covered in the gravy? It makes no sense?

I'm enraged enough here to dust off my long-forgotten username.. Bread and gravy (never heard it called a "piece" though) is THE BEST part of a roast dinner. And i make a pretty awesome roast. It's even my favourite thing about christmas dinner! Ahhhhhhhh just thinking about it is making me salivate

I can only eat my own or my mother's egg salad. And as mum is dead, that just leaves my own.

I think a "piece" is a very very old concept - when food was served on pieces of bread rather than dishes (think I learned this from Norah Lofts)

Beans..with Shepherds Pie? (faints)

Pickled red cabbage with shepherds pie!

But the bread has to be buttered.

Beans with a cottage pie is revolting.

How can you really not figure out how to eat it with gravy?

I’m really disappointed this isn’t about favourite crockery because I wanted to tell everyone about my special bowl, that I eat all of my meals from. Like a dog

My mother always had a piece of bread with any meal to polish off any leftover bits.

Definitely bread to soak the gravy up was and is the best part of a meal

Beef, chantenay carrots, dark green veg, roaties, yorkshire puds and horseradish.

Lamb, green beans and peas, leeks in garlic sauce, roasties, mint sauce.

Pork - apple sauce and roasties, veg, cider gravy.

Chicken, stuffing, bread sauce, carrots, a green, roasties

Pork chops, chips and cauli cheese (I do not think cauli cheese and gravy go well)

Cottage pie is with vegetables, not beans.

Sausages: either chips and beans OR mash, veggies and onion gravy.

Cod, spinach and cheese bake with peas and croquettes.

I always add baked beans to my mince part of the shepherds pie then serve with veg and gravy. Delicious

What you (or rather your DH) call a 'piece' is, to my Sheffield-born DH (and ALSO our DC), a 'Yorkshire sandwich'. I can't even...

I won't serve potatoes and pastry together (unless it's meat and potato pie, which is the exception that proves the rule)

Dp and I argue over how to serve certain foods, shepards pie has to be with peas and pickled beetroot- he serves it with carrots and gravy. Sausages need to be served with savoury rice and veggies- or cauliflower cheese and mash- but he keeps doing awful things like yorkshire puddings and chips with them. Who puts yorkshires with chips? He is giving me the rage over his pork chops on a weekly basis- Apple sauce and cheese on the top but then served with gravy! Who puts cheese with gravy? Makes me want to shove pork chops up his butt hole.

Yorkshire puddings should be served with all meals imo. Sometimes I just eat an entire tray on their own with a mug of gravy.

Cottage/Shepherds pie with beans

Sausage casserole, mashed potato and spaghetti hoops

Always have cauliflower cheese on a roast dinner, with gravy.

As children we always had Yorkshire pudding as... pudding, with lemon juice and sugar, like a big pancake. (My dad was horrified when he saw someone in a pub eat a sausage casserole served in a large Yorkshire pudding; he said it ‘looked like a bloody bedpan!’ 🤮🤮🤮)

I get all Meg Ryan-y (think of the When Harry Met Sally scene with the apple pie) when I order a cooked breakfast. I FUCKING hate fried eggs so always ask for poached, but 'not runny'. I like bacon but not too crispy. And finally...PLEASE NO beans! Waiter/waitress dutifully writes it all down but inevitably the breakfast arrives with minging eggs, bacon fried to a crisp and the plate drowning in beans. At which point I start weeping internally and try to salvage something not covered in bean slime there may be hangovers involved
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IxeeeSUFpmE

Surely baked beans do not belong on the same plate as mash potato.

Broccoli does not go with gravy.
Fish pie has to be with peas on the side as the only veg.
Fried egg sandwiches have to have HP only.
Carrots should not be cut in rounds, they taste grim.

Fish pie -peas and game chips if I can be bothered to make them or crisps if I can't.