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?

But... but... that's like saying a barbecue is a roast because the meat is roasted (as you tuck into to your steak, veg skewer and slimy spud salad).

A roast is NOT a roast without roast potatoes. They are one of the best bits.

YABVVVVVVU.
(And no, I haven't RTFT either. Don't need to.)

YABVVVVU

sockqueen Thanks.. It is really good to find true-feeling sisters on MN. Those truly who understand the nature of what it is like to have to suffer (mostly uncomplainingly-but-with -a-real-unacknowledged-ongoing-trauma), the deep enduring roast potato-related pain loss, such as I have......

I just told DH that I'd posted my Stolen-Roastie eperience..(for that is indeed what it was) .. And he said..(predictably, I fear) Let it Go.... (He also accused me of a certain amount of 'story Embellishment!!' )

This has truly got to be a divorcing offence (Where I Get The Lot and he gets Nothing ). Don't you think? ..

I now have a feeling that I am now going to be forced to eat a huge plate of roasties on Christmas day in front of the family

Ah well.... Someone has to...

Alconleigh... quite right, the only rational response .. .Its ok though , if it ever comes up , I know a magistrate . You'll be ok..

A roast without roast potatoes, your children will need therapy.

1 potato 2 potatoes 3 potatoes 4, 5 potatoes 6 potatoes 7 potatoes more. 1 more potato left on the plate to be roasted and to be ate.

chunderella .. quite right.. I should have walked then.

I'm having RL marital ishooes (a whole 'nother thread) but even though DH is a lying cheating scumbag I know that he cannot be all evil. He appreciates a roast potato even more than the next man. I think he considers a well roasted spud to be the pinnacle of culinary artistry.

So YABU and even the most cliched insert your own accent pathetic man-child-bloke in the universe is above you morally on this topic.

I agree with whoever said that the words you write ONLY make sense individually.

A roast is not a roast without a decent number of roast potatoes for everybody.

Just because you aren't that hungry, doesn't mean others aren't.

Dear God how do I block that Neurofen advert.

YABU. After the meat, they are the best bit

YABU

Roast potatoes are not necessary for you to have a nice meal but they are necessary if you want to call the meal a roast.

Every time me and my sister have a roast dinner (noye, OP the word "roast" there) we have to pick our King Thing. I'd say 9 times out of 10, it's the roasties

You would only pick boiled over roast if you are on a diet or if you we fking miserable!

Are you my BIL?

He doesn't like roasties and instead (prepare yourselves) takes a packet of Smash with him whenever he goes anywhere for a roast dinner.

I know!

Smash

I'm speechless.

what the living fuck Tits? So if he went to someones house for a roast that they had prepared rather than just declining the roast pots he asks them to make up a packet of smash?
I'd either tell him to fuck off or piss in it.
Please tell me he doesn't do that in restaurants.

Rule 1. (There is only one Rule)..

Always help yourself to the Roasties before anything else..(especially if you have a potato-loving family like mine)

This appies to Any gathering, family party, christmas, wedding, christening (its not a Right Proper wedding or christening without roast potatoes is it?), works Do, pub lunch with friends etc.

A Hard lesson, bitterly learned...

(Barbeques and summer picnics and parties may (but not always) be excepted from this Rule)..

Smash......?! (lost for words)

Smash?????????????

It's the end of civilisation. The 4 horsemen will be hoving over the horizon any minute. (Or is that 5)

YABVVU

YABVVVU roasties are the best part! I'd have roasties and veggies and gravy and no chicken (don't eat other meats) if I had to

YABU

Thankyou for sharing your stories, they have truly made me think about life, my poor neglected husband and children and my general disregard for the finer things in life.

It's just a pity your all wrong.

Keep reading the title as 'racist potatoes'.

I have a temperature of 102 and will probably have a weird dream about potatoes marching on the UN tonight.

YABU what is the point of a roast potato, if it is not part of a roast dinner. If we al had your attitude they would be extinct in 20 years.

I will admit, on one occasion in my life, I picked boiled potatoes over roasted. No! No! Let me finish. It was a catered Xmas dinner, and the mass produced roast potatoes were abominably poor examples of their type. And the boiled potatoes were Jersey Royals (was working over there, and it turned out they kept a small hidden supply away from the export market). And they were delish. But it meant that it WAS NOT a roast dinner.

Roast potatoes are absolutely, completely, totally, and utterly essential and intrinsic to a roast dinner. Preferably a lovely big pile of them. With a light sprinkle of salt. And the gravy carefully not poured over them, to make them soggy, but available to be mopped up by the fluffy insides. Mmmmmmmmmmm.

So YABVVVVVVVVVVU.

Unless....just maybe......could there be a glimmer of sanity......

Is this a reverse?!?!!?!