Please settle this dispute re: "a roast"

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I need the power of MN (to prove that I'm right...). If someone says they are "making a roast on Sunday" what meat(s) could possibly be being served?

A "roast" in this house is a chicken, it's what we have 99% of the time. Any other roast meat is referred to by its name, as in, "shall we have beef this Sunday instead of the usual roast?"

Here a roast is beef usually,occasionally lamb.

Sometimes I do a sausage roast or a nut roast, but it is always described like that to differentiate it from a proper roast (with a joint of meat or a whole bird)

Any joint you fancy. I'm not veggie but quite partial to a nut roast myself

My roast is everything except the meat 🤷🏻‍♀️

Chicken or beef, maybe a gammon at a push.

I suppose it could be argued that anything cooked in the oven is roasted.

But really, to me it's meat excluding fish. Not processed stuff like sausages or burgers though.

If you do roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings you could get away with calling many things a roast dinner 😁

Something that needs to be carved.

I'd assume meat at first, but on second thoughts, it could be a nut roast, a spiced cauliflower or stuffed squash or similar.

Beef, chicken, sausages. Basically any meat or vegan options.

Any meat mentioned so far except sausages - but I have to say, I would be very sad if it was a nut roast...

Well, I was even more wrong than any of you guessed... 😳

I was teasing DH (who cooked tonight) that he should have made me a roast because it's Sunday. He said that he had offered (offered to get a whole chicken for tonight while we were shopping earlier but I wasn't inthemood for that). I said that "a roast" ONLY meant beef.

I'm going to guess that what was served was chicken and mushroom pie

A joint of meat i.e. a whole chunk, if it’s for meat eaters. That can be ‘roasted’ in different ways - slow-cooked lamb, for instance, I’d say was ‘a roast’ if it was served with roast veg and not e.g. cous cous or whatever.

No! Roast chicken. It’s in the name OP!

My roast is

Roasted veg (pre roasted -aunt Bessie types)
Peas
Breaded chicken or a veggie pastry thing
Gravy and Yorkshire's

All put on oven /to steam at sane time. (Bar yorkshires and gravy's)

Any meat that requires using proper carving tools. And a bazillion roast tatties of course.

Most often in our house is chicken but any solid lump of meat including game could be a "roast".

Yeah, you’re wrong sorry. A whole
chicken would qualify as a roast.

Is that "my roast" in the same vein as "my truth"?

NOT a Roast included Bernard Mathews Turkey Escalopes, Birds Eye Chicken Dippers, Any Brand Sausages, Aunt Bessie Toad in the Hole, Brains Faggots.
Also NOT unless by prior agreement/unless you're a veggie household any form of "pretend" or "plant-based" meat or a nut roast.

Chicken is.

I said that "a roast" ONLY meant beef.

But why did you say that?

Surely as an adult you know other joints of meat for roasting exist?

Oh OP. You were so wrong

Why wouldn't a roast chicken count as a roast?!

Nope!

Has to have roast potatoes, veg, yorkie pups and gravy to count as a roast too

Joint, or bird of some type.

Have you never been to a pub that serves roasts on a Sunday and therefore thought it weird they did anything other than beef?