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?

I suspected from your OP that this was about beef. When my nan used to have us over for Sunday roasts it was always the most delicious roast beef, never any other meat.

Also i think it's the hardest to get right. I haven't eaten beef for a decade or more, but i think what's the point as nan hasn't cooked it!

A joint of lamb, beef or pork or a whole chicken, with min 2 veg, at least one kind of potatoes, usually mash but ideally roasted too (boiled is acceptable with chicken). Yorkshire pudding does go with everything, and is much loved although not compulsory. Gravy. Plus apple, mint or horseradish sauce.

If you were my dearly departed Grandmother then yes it would be beef as the only roast she ever cooked was Roast Beef, apart from Christmas Day when you would get the worlds smallest Turkey alongside a joint of Beef.

I have a friend who does a ‘roast’ without roast potatoes - I think this is much worse than assuming it is always beef!

What else was he intending to serve with it Op?

If I do roast chicken with mash I wouldn't call it a roast tbh.

I think the meat & pots have to both be roasted for it to qualify!

I usually do chicken, but I hate those weird leg and a wing things they do in the pub.

Ha!

Didn't see this until after I posted!

Chicken beef pork lamb, or game like venison, pheasant, and all that. Rabbit I spose.

Maybe there is a tiny silver lining here. I was impressively and embarrassingly wrong, but maybe DH's dinner also wouldn't have been 'a roast', nothing to do with the meat. I had already vetoed the chicken idea, but based on past meals, it probably would have been accompanied by roasted (I know, I know) potatoes OR rice. And the veg may have been roasted (yes, I know) Mediterranean veg OR microwaved green veg. Gravy on a lucky day, but definitely no Yorkshire puddings in sight (alas).

So in the best case scenario (I'm going down; may as well take him with me)...roast chicken, microwaved green veg, and rice may not be 'a roast'. The Trimmings Loophole? 🙂

@YouOKHun You're right. He didn't make the chicken in the end, but I still got a roast today! 😁I'm not OK, hon!

The Trimmings Loophole? 🙂

I think you might get away with it!

@Summerfun54321 Well, I like to think of that as an accomplishment. 😁

A roast is any meat (commonly chicken, pork, beef or lamb), roasted in the oven, with roast potatoes and veg. We also have yorkshire puddings with every roast, because we love them.
You don't go out for a roast and expect there to only be beef as an option 😂

A roast = quorn in my house!

Ooh, redemption OP! It’s definitely not ‘a roast’ if it’s served with rice!

Did The Beef And Dairy Network podcast send you as part of their investigation into the fifth meat?

Thanks, @diddl. If I can't be right, at least someone else can (maybe) be wrong.

If someone said they were making me 'a roast dinner' on a Sunday then I'd be expecting beef - I'm fully aware you can roast all sorts of other things but for me, traditionally, It's beef. The End.

oh. Oh dear. 😃

only one kind of roast in my little world BEEF and it better be tender.

Rice can be a perfectly acceptable side to a roast (we always have Jamaican rice & peas with ours) BUT ONLY as an additional carb to the roast potatoes. Ditto macaroni cheese.

Roast in our house would be beef with Yorkshire pudding and gravy or occasionally lamb.

I don’t often do a chicken for a roast dinner (have that with salad etc) and I’d never consider ham as a roast.

In this house chicken def. counts as a roast if it’s whole, with roast potatoes, at least 2 veg (one of which preferably cauliflower cheese) and proper gravy, made in the roasting tin - not the instant stuff. And preferably slathered with some of the garlic/parsley butter usually in the freezer, leftover from making garlic bread.
Stuffing and Yorkshire puds not essential here.

Almost any meat - chicken, beef, lamb, pork, duck, pheasant, venison, quail, pigeon, rabbit. Or veggie, nut roast, butternut squash, roasted veg etc.