To be completely aghast at OH's roast dinner habit?!

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We've been together 11 months in total but managed to avoid this til tonight (possibly because it is the first time I've actually cooked him a roast). While I was dishing up, he mentioned putting pickled onions on his dinner. Obviously, I thought he was joking so continued to serve up while he poured drinks. He then produces a jar of pickled onions from the cupboard and puts them on his dinner!!

SEVEN PICKLED ONIONS ON A ROAST PORK DINNER!!!

AIBU to consider this a deal breaker and get my online dating profile up and running?

Why are people so fussy about which sauces go with which meat? So, his tastes are different to yours? So what. I love mint sauce on mashed potatoes and gravy, and horseradish sauce on roast potatoes and chicken. My tastebuds are not the same as yours.

So once upon a time, a chef/cook/whatever decided redcurrant jelly went well with lamb. Doesn't mean it has to be set in stone. I have now discovered that redcurrant jelly is good in a hot wrap with chorizo, goat's cheese and rocket. New food combinations happen all the time.

YABU to be bothered about the traditions of what goes on/with a roast dinner or which sauce should be used with each meat when this is the first roast dinner you have had with him in 11 months.

I love mint sauce or piccalilli with chicken. I even mix the piccalilli into my mash (on my plate - I don't make DH & DS suffer my depravity).

Ny DH smothers roasts in hot pepper sauce - it effectively obliterates the taste of whatever I've cooked.

A former colleague of mine split up with her husband because he wouldn't let her have Yorkshire pudding with a roast unless it was roast beef, and then she was only allowed one.

it was just one of many controlling behaviours that he had but it was the straw that broke the camels back

Now she has Yorkshire pudding all the time! And is happy...

YABU

I love pickled onions with roast dinners! I mix the juice on the mash too as I don't have gravy.

I know that you are all shocked at that
I also have mint sauce with any roast. I'm eating it so why does it matter what I put on it

My Df likes mushy peas, Brown sauce and pickled onions on his roast. They are staples on the Christmas dinner table too. My dh was amazed when he came for his first Christmas dinner. To make it worse my Df mixes it all together on his plate and then smother's it in gravy. He's bloody disgusting. I dread having him over for dinner!

Well I suppose Yorkshire salad is just as bad and I bloody love that!

I have to put mustard and redcurrent jelly on everything.

I have bread sauce with every roast. Even though I am the only one who likes it. I could live on bread sauce alone.

Right. A roast dinner consists of, a roasted meat of choice, roasted root vegetables, roast potatoes, gravy. Trimmings preferable but optional.

Boiled or steamed veg or potatoes are forbidden.

Anything after that is fair game. Stuffing, mint sauce, mint jelly, croquettes, sprouts, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, pickles, Yorkshire puddings, pickled red cabbage, piccalilli... If you like it and you can balance it on Roast Dinner Mountain then get it on there.

Bread sauce however is sick.

And not in the modern sense of the word.

Ha! I posted that before reading your post Flying. Wasn't aimed at you.

You enjoy your bread sauce.

Sicko.

Sister's ex puts ketchup on a roast dinner. Note, ex.

Pickled onions with roasted meat, especially beef - yum!

My mother would slice an onion and leave it in a cup of vinegar in the morning that we would eat with the beef later. Loved it!

Ketchup or brown sauce on a roast dinner? Not in my house! lol You're forced to have gravy, and lots of it. :)

Mmmmm...bread sauce....

DH loves Navy Gravy [franks hot sauce] and is in the habit of putting it on most things. He knows better than to put it on a roast though!

So is the pickled onion habit Northern or East End.

I have them with fish and chips (as does my dad) which seems completely normal to me but my DH thinks is horrific.

My dad was raised in Hackney & Yorkshire which would explain a lot!

I love bread sauce - would quite happily eat a bowlful with roast spuds and gravy but not sure I'd want it on anything other chicken Tbh.

Dear god

I knew a lad once who had gravy and tom sauce on his roasts. Urgh!

I'm a roast dinner purist. Roasted things only. Gravy from the meat drippings. Mint sauce on lamb, horseradish with beef, mustard with chicken, but. Err. (Whispering) I don't know what bread sauce is.

Salad cream for Dh here! Get through tons of the stuff!

Although I don't really mind, my cooking is so good you don't need anything else with it!

Pickles on roast - Yuck (IMHO)

Mint jelly/odd sauces on your roast - do what you want, it's your dinner funeral

Pickles on fish & chips - absolutely essential. (I am a Yorkshire girl though, born of Cockney parentage, so my deviant chip habits are forgivable. According to DH.

My grandparents were Yorkshire farming/Scottish mix so not sure where this comes from but it's so lush I don't care...

We have cucumber and onion in vinegar with roast beef. Both are thinly sliced and layered in a bowl on Sunday morning, malt vinegar is poured over and it stands until lunch/dinner whereupon it is eaten with the beef. Only beef, no other meats.

It's is gorgeous, and so good on cold beef sandwiches the next day.

DM is a Geordie and makes a 'salad' of chopped spring onions, lettuce, sugar and vinegar for spooning over a roast beef dinner - delicious!

Mushy peas are served with pretty much every meal too.

When we first got married I worked away during the week. Dh wasn't a great cook and used to smother most of his meals with chilli sauce.
He tried to do it with food I cooked for him too but I soon threw the bottle awaystopped him.

He's a brilliant cook now and a Sunday Roast is his speciality. Chilli sauce is now served for appropriate dishes only!!