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?

So wait OP - would you not have said that Christmas dinner with turkey and trimming was a roast dinner?

Any joint of meat, nut roast or veggie Wellington

No OP has ever been this wrong in the history of MN!

OP, you have made me laugh by your complete wrongness, and your willingness to be proven completely wrong. Never mind roasts - you are a star.

@Andylion & @UpToMyElbowsInDiapers I'm willing to move to Canada to be less wrong about this! 😁

I agree with you OP.
If I was offered 'a roast' I definitely wouldn't expect chicken!
That's specifically called 'roast chicken'.
A roast = beef or maybe lamb.
That's what would be expected where I'm from in Ireland.

I would find chicken an odd Sunday roast. Roast chicken is just roast chicken.

Ha. A roast in our house is just the veggies, so if it's any comfort OP our idea of "a roast" disappoints more than chicken would!

Doesn't need to be meat at all

I'm confused.

Did you think in order for a meal to be a Sunday roast the meat had to be beef?

Thanks, @ChristinaXYZ! Interesting article, and now I can add 'gastro-nationalism' to my vocabulary (along with an updated definition of 'a roast'...).

If offered 'a roast' I would expect oven roasted meat or fish that is cooked as a whole and portioned out after cooking. There is always a sauce to add at the table (gravy/parsley sauce etc depending on the protein), roast potatoes, and a selection of other traditional 'roast dinner' sides. Which sides would vary depending on the meat/fish served, season and occasion.

A roast is definitely not just beef!

Where is the logic that roast chicken, served on a Sunday, is not a Sunday roast? Can you only have roast chicken on a different day?

OP, have you never been to a pub for a Sunday roast , and got to choose from lamb, pork, beef or chicken?

I’m so boggled by this thread!

I would argue that the cooking method makes it a roast, rather that what type of meat/vegetarian alternative it was.

Roast Chicken/Turkey, Pork, Ham, Lamb or Beef?

A roast is beef, chicken, lamb, turkey, pork or gammon. If dh said I'm doing a roast I would usually assume beef or chicken.

Now I want a roast.😥
turkey, beef, lamb, chicken, gammon and any other joint of meat or whole bird must at the very least have a veg and potato’s as sides with gravey and in our house Yorkshire pudding.

Roast chicken is the best kind of roast, it's like Christmas Dinner without it having to be Christmas!

Chicken, beef, ham

Beef, Lamb, Pork/Gammon, Chicken, Turkey.

Whole chicken, duck, goose, whole or crown of Turkey. Beef, lamb, pork, ham. Any roasted meat really if it isn't processed (not sausages, burgers, meatballs, nuggets). Nutroast. If served with roast vegetables then the meat could be slow cooked instead for example but the meal could still be called a roast.

Same as the majority above. Except my exMIL used to do roast gammon and no gravy with boiled new potatoes for Sunday dinner occasionally. She was a marvellous cook, her food was always delicious, but I was so disappointed when we went around for Sunday dinner and it was gammon. (Kept it to myself, obviously)

That's acceptable, but it needs pineapple with it.

That is indeed very disappointing... Gravy is like at least half the point of a roast dinner!

I think it’s different for everyone. In our house it usually means chicken, but sometime also beef or pork. They’re the 3 most common-but as long as it’s been roasted in the oven and has all the trimmings, then it can be any meat (or veggie option) that you choose