Please settle this dispute re: "a roast"

[UnlimitedChipsAndSalsa]

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?

'Cooked as a lump' has absolutely cracked me up.

Soooooo wrong.

Sunday roast includes beef, chicken, pork, lamb, or turkey.

Yep i agree, i mean it could be any of those but i would assume it was beef

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

Must be. What that poster describes is an abomination not a roast.

And, yes, I do realise that pretty much anything can be roasted, and that "roast chicken" exists (so do "roast potatoes" but you wouldn't call them "a roast"). The dispute was about the protein (we aren't veggie, so meat in our case) that would be serve for "a roast".

Roast Beef Roast lamb Roast pork Roast chicken Roast Duck Roast Poulet/Pheasant/Grouse/Squab/Venison (Although venison requires some braising imo - as does horse.

Ordinarily all meats come with Roast potatoes, gravy and a variety of veg and Condiments: mint sauce, horseradish, cranberry sauce, redcurrant jelly, apple sauce, etc. game chips quietly salivates :)

see now you have either got to admit you are wrong or go very quiet

Oh wow, yes you were very wrong then. 😂

It's all about the roast potatoes for me. I don't eat meat anyway, but I would still consider what I have on a Sunday to be a roast!

@UnlimitedChipsAndSalsa I get what you mean.
You mean a proper roast love ke beef or lamb.
Something that's worth 2 days of washing up.

Now,what sides did you have?

I must take a stand here-breaded chicken is not a roast dinner.

Even if you have roasted veg.
Nor are sausages.

We also gasp have yorkshires with anything with gravy so chicken, turkey etc as well as beef.

@godmum56 Unfortunately, DH is reading along. 😀

Are you getting confused with Yorkshire puddings? Because plenty of people think yorkshire puds should only come with roast beef...

Roasting a chicken doesn't make a meal "a roast", there has to be roast potatoes, veg and gravy too for it to be "a roast"...

I'd love to be one of those posters where everyone on the thread says they're wrong and the OP finds the ONE person who agrees with them to quote. Sadly, I can't even find that! (Though there are a few that say they'd usually say beef, but even those are few and far between...).

I fancy a roast beef dinner now!

With our roasts we do chicken, lamb, gammon, salmon, nut roast or Turkey. Depends what people want that day.

always with roasties, Yorkshire puds, carrots, broccoli, parsnips and a shit load of gravy.

I disagree with someone else above I think a toad in the hole can be a roast.

Another saying any meat in original form, or a veggie something with the same veg. So not sausages. And not fish with new potatoes and veg for example.

Any meat but gosh I guess. 🤔

Oh so so wrong! I prefer a lamb roast but it can be any meat! As long as a joint / whole chicken, Ive been served a sausage roast dinner before.. Was so wrong

Pfffft

I love roast sausages.

We have them with roasted onion and all the trimmings. Delicious

How weird.

Depends on your budget too. We end up having sausages with what ever veg we have at the time. Its feeds us and its cheap.

People go out and eat the large yorkshire pudding with meat and veg in the middle these days. So why not toad in the hole. If your budget is tight you don't care.

I fancied a roast today so went to the local pub- their roast of the day was turkey and ham, but I'd have been equally happy with roast beef or roast lamb.