Aibu to think a roast dinner doesn't necessarily need roast potatoes?

[MagicMojito]

Title says it all really. For me so long as you have a roasted bit of meat on the go and maybe some roasted veggies, well then that's fair enough to constitute a roast. Is it just me who thinks roast potatoes are abit unnecessary?

YABU totally unreasonable!!! And unseasonable!!!

BLASPHAMY!!!!!!!!!!

I feel sorry for your children

I would say YABU but I just love roast chicken with mashed potatoes

It's not the same without at least one roast potato to mop up the gravy with, even if I have roast parsnips on my plate.

I don't even especially love potatoes in any form but of course yabu. Lots of strange threads here today about pyjamas on Christmas day, no Christmas pudding (what?) and now this. What the...

Mash?

Are you American?

No roast potatoes????? I would have replied earlier, but had passed out in shock . . . . .
I think I spend more time getting the roasties right than anything else, TBH.
Meat, yeah! few veg, yeah! (Mashed potato NO - not with a ROAST dinner).
Cauliflower Cheese, yeah - a little spoonful.

But ROAST POTATOES - who in their right mind would not serve ROAST POTATOES with a roast dinner???? Gaaahhhhhh

OP - YABVVVVVU

Well from reading your replies I was about to concede that prahaps I was being a teeny bit unreasonable, however good sense prevailed and ive had at least 3 other posters agree with me so that's validation enough for me

Serving a roast dinner with no roast potatoes would be the culinary equivalent of the ravens leaving the West Tower. The kingdom would surely fall and rightly so.

YABVVVVU

Anyone who thinks a roast potato is unnecessary obviously isn't doing them right!

Aw. Is it just that you can't roast potatoes properly? So claim not to like them?

Because I can think of no other reason to not like them.

democracy is overrated anyway

They give me indigestion, and I genuinely prefer mash.

I don't think YABU necessarily! If I do a roast in Summer I don't do proper roast potatoes (par-boiled etc.) - I often roast a tray of other veg. & might just include some new potatoes in it. And I love roast lamb with gratin dauphinoise instead of roasties.

With roast beef though or Christmas dinner, roasties are non-negotiable. My MIL once served boiled potatoes with Christmas dinner & I was a bit . She said something about them being healthier, but I know she'd had a drink or two & lost track of the time.

No - you are totally WRONG - roast dinner NEEDS roast meat, roast potatoes, veg, gravy (anything else is a bonus) :)

Roast dinners are particularly wrong with mash, new potatoes, or boiled potatoes (hmm - pretty much ONLY roast potatoes will do).

I'm pretty darned good at making them. I just can't be arsed if I'm honest.

YABVVVVVVVVVVVVVU

In fact, this is the most unreasonable thing I have ever read on AIBU.

I would be quite happy with nothing else but the potatoes.

Typical bloody aibu!

OP - aibu?
Everyone - yes! And you are being cruel to your children to boot!
A couple of random loons - no, op is right
OP - I must be right then.

Put it this way OP, if I went to yours for a "roast" and I'd been promised a roast dinner, but there were no roasties, it would be over between us. You'd be dead to me. That's how important this is. Capiche?

You've gone too far magic. TOO FAR.

Yabvu to suggest roasties are unnecessary, and even more so to replace them with mash.

I'm having roast spuds tonight, with sausages, Yorkshires, veg & gravy - yum!

YABtotallyU

I will tolerate boiled carrots if there isn't enough space. I can go without parsnips as DH doesn't like them freak . Mash is acceptable as an extra if there isn't space/energy for a decent serving of roast potatoes each. But no roasties at all is just plain WRONG.

I still haven't forgiven DH's cousin for deciding at Christmas dinner ~3 years ago that as he didn't like most of the veg (this is a 30-something year old man, not a small child) he would take extra potatoes. No, they weren't extra potatoes, they were MY potatoes. I got none.

Fox I have the courage of my convictions

Love 'em. Parsnips are the work of the devil.

Bollocks to you all. I'm right.