To say Yorkshire puddings are pointless

[McNewPants2013]

There is no flavour to them, and take up space on the plate that could mean an extra roast potato

Yorkies are the stuff of life.

As is bread sauce.

I know that's a completely different thing but I have an irrational obsession with both.

Add some roasties, stuffing and gravy and I'm not sure that there is anything more satisfying.

and people who put cheese in them

Shocking statement to make!

My youngest doesn't like them, I almost disowned her.

Think I may need an armour suit to go with that hard hat

Lets just get this straight. I don't put cheese in them. My mil does. Not me, her.

And she doesn't serve those ones with gravy. But as I said, not me, her.

Indeed McNewPants

We are having ham and pease pudding today. I will be serving it with a giant yorkshire. You cannot beat the joy of a good yorkshire.

fuzzpig would you mind sharing the yummy coeliac recipe? A friend has recently been diagnosed and he is lamenting the loss of the yorkshire on his Sunday roast.

DS would disagree. He had 4 for Xmas dinner. He's only 15 months btw! But since he ate all his veg I thought why not

Ooh, I'm longing for a Proper Yorkshire Pudding with onion gravy now...

Lovely midweek dinner;
1 big Yorkshire fill with savoury mince-carrots onions etc
Top with a smaller Yorkshire containing a blob of mash
You have a castle!!!
You can use different sized tins depending on age/appetite
You can also have onion gravy if needed.

Yabvu.

What the hell is yorkshire salad? A dollop of cow shit and a pickled onion?

Not far off greensleeves, it's onion and lettuce in vinegar, and bloody lovely with puds and gravy.

It's like saying pancakes are useless. Same ingredients, just different method of cooking..

andro I love the monologue-never seen it before and nor has dh who is a Bradford lad by brth :)

Pancakes ARE a waste of time . Don't think I've had one since I left home. Clearly I don't like batter - not a fan of fish and chips either.

YABU to say they are pointless.

They make some people happy, so they have a point.

I'd rather have the extra potato.

YABU unreasonable.

My Gran was as Yorkshire as they come, she made amazing Yorkshires, massive ones in a whole roasting tin and like others we had them to start with gravy, then with the roast, then with jam for pudding.

We had Yorkshire salad too.

I'm ashamed to say I usually do Aunt Bessie's.

They are the best bit. Especially my Grannie's ones, served with her fantastic beef gravy, on a plate all on their own before the boring meat and veggies bit is served.

Nicer, roughly which part of Yorkshire if you don't mind me asking? Hardly anyone has heard of yorkshire salad.

Nivet obviously!

What the hell is yorkshire salad? A dollop of cow shit and a pickled onion?

IMHOn Rather uncalled for especially in a post where an angel has been mentioned.

YABU-they are lovely-perhaps you are just not very good at making them.

YABU - how can you possibly say that??????

Well, there is a history to them, isn't there? As a poster upthread has said, they used to be a first course (poster still has them as a first course) to fill diners up because there wasn't much expensive meat to go round.

Apart from that example, more men than now used to work in strenuous jobs on the land or in factories so used a lot of energy that had to be replaced with carbohydrate and fat.