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?

YABVVVVVVVVVVVVVVU - as others have said without roast potatoes its just a dinner.

Its a bone on contention in our house - the kids think its a hilarious way to wind me up

What in the blithering FUCK are you on about?

YABU in an impressively unprecedented way.

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

Well that says it all doesn't it OP. am phoning social services as I type.

Yabu. Obviously. Roast potatoes are the only essential part of a roast dinner.

Gravy can sod off though - making the lovely roasties and Yorkshires all soggy.

There's nothing wrong with a dinner with roasted meat without roast potatoes, just like there's nothing wrong with going on your honeymoon on your own. It's just deeply unsatisfactory for everyone concerned and a waste of a good opportunity.

YABU.

To me roast potatoes are what makes a roast dinner, otherwise it's just meat & two veg.

NOOOOOOOO!!!!

just Noooooooooo!!!

If you can't be bothered to roast the potatoes, why even bother to roast the meat? Just buy a ready meal and have done with it.

I have one word to say, OP. Heresy!

TillHammerZeit you must be doing your roasties all wrong, there truly is no finer way to eat a potato.

I actually quite like a dinner of roast meat with mash, or cauliflower cheese, or roasted veg and don't see that roast potatoes are an essential part of a meal every time you have roast meat.
However yabu because I wouldn't call that meal a roast dinner - it's only a roast dinner if roast potatoes and gravy are involved, everything else is optional!

I understand the individual words in your OP, but put together in the concept of a question about reasonableness, well you've lost me.

If AIBU is a Möbius strip then this question is on the very edge of unreason before it twists round and we start again with questions about AIBU to breathe in air?

I don't understand mn anymore.

Actually can I just say that I do love a good dollop of creamy mashed potato with a roast dinner.

It makes a nice contrast to the roast potatoes.

Contrast, you note... not alternative. I like both on the same plate. Of course there had to be roast potatoes.

What's the fuss about making roast potatoes. They're pretty easy, peel, parboil, bash for lovely crunchy edges, put in hot fat and let them do their thing.

Compared to mash potato, it's no more work by the time you've faded around with mashing, butter, milk etc.

ooh a roast isn't a 'roast' without roast potatoes! Might as well get a ding-a-ling dinner, few minutes and it's cooked

I would cry if my roast dinner turned up accompanied by only buttery mash. No matter how lovely the mash. Real, noisy sobbing and histrionics. Maybe some toy throwing too.

I read AIBU everyday and I've never been so outraged!! How could you make such a suggestion?

Fredfred There's nothing wrong with a dinner with roasted meat without roast potatoes, just like there's nothing wrong with going on your honeymoon on your own. It's just deeply unsatisfactory for everyone concerned and a waste of a good opportunity.

Love it!

We have roasties and mash with ours

Oh and roast carrots, parsnips and sweed.

This may be traumatising , but I feel I have to share this deep anguish.....Maybe it can help me finally heal..

We once cooked Christmas dinner for 20 people (DHs family), it was a bit of a campaign in our tiny terraced house and miniscule kitchen but we managed . We put up trestle tables in our little lounge and DH and I served in relays...

The Roasties went out fairly near the end once everyone had their plates of meat and the veggies and gravy were on the table ..

But by the time I got to sit down for my dinner, (having then made sure everyone had all the drinks serviettes cutlery etc they needed).. Where was the huge pile of roasties we'd made? .

GONE. Thats what. Snaffled, every bloody one of them.. ..

I will NEVER forgive them... NEVER (despite the fact it was it was over 20 years ago)

DH says I should 'just let go'...and DMIL still cannot grovel enough when i mention it, (although I secretly think she thinks im making a bit of a fuss ..)

But you all know my enduring trauma dont you? (well, you sane ones do !) ....

I am sure this story has totally traumatised several of you.

Sorry, but I had to share the very worst Christmas of my life EVER with you .. Here is some

YABVVVU. And a classic OP everyone thinks you're wrong and you still think you're right.

I love roast potatoes. The best not about Xmas lunch. And mine are far better than MILs

I feel your pain, Laska. I suspect I would have had to sit down, under the collection of trestle tables and weep piteously. Certainly, I would never have forgotten this trauma.

I think it's one of those situations were the only reasonable thing to do is agree to disagree on this one. It's nice to know there are so many people out there who are so very passionate about roast potatoes. It's strange old world

YABVVVVVU. sometimes DH & I just make Yorkshire puddings, roast potatoes & gravy with bisto. Yum.