To think you have mash AND roast potatoes with a roast dinner?

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I've always had both as well as meat and veggies, dh thinks you don't.

Interesting! Never ever had mash with a roast & never met anyone who does!? Is it regional maybe?

Sigh.

Roast and mash.

Squedge actually all of those roasts sound lovely to me.

Both.

I would say just roast potatoes are traditional, but I guess some people prefer mash, or boiled potatoes or even jacket potatoes, or a combination of all of them. I don't really like potatoes so prefer extra vegetables. In my family, we usually have roasted potatoes and also a mashed root vegetable with our roast dinners.

This thread is making me hungry; we live abroad where roast dinners can't really be recreated properly and certainly couldn't be eaten today (it's too hot...our oven hasn't been switched on in weeks if not months!) Now I'm craving sprouts, roast beef, roasted parsnips and mashed swede with some Paxo sage and onion stuffing.

My mum did both. We just have roasties

Mashed something (swede, carrot, etc) but not potatoes.

I don't get why "roasts" means roast potatoes. Surely the meat is also roasted, as are many of the vegetables, so why are the potatoes the only food to get the title?

Deadgood I'm just calling them that I know they are roast potatoes, my mum called them roasts because she didn't really roast the veg.

Never heard of both. Roast potatoes and Yorkshire pud, yes.

Two kinds of spuds is tradition. In our house, roast and baked.

One of the best things about being married to my exH was exMIL's Sunday lunch (actually it might have been the only good thing ). She did roast and mash spuds with MARROW FAT PEAS and loads of thick gravy. It was bloody gorgeous.

My Mum's roasts were epic but in a different way with perfect roasties, roast parsnips and carrots, homemade cauli cheese, 2 or 3 green veg, homemade yorkshire puds. Lush .

I don't know anyone who has mash with roast dinner :O

Growing up we only had both when it was an emergency I.e. Couldn't fit enough roasts in the oven!

DH family are from Austria and they do roasties, mash and RICE!!!
Just wrong

Yup-both here as well. I thought everyone did this. Mash potatoes &roasties with a Sunday roast, it is actually the law.

How do you have space for the meat and veg though if people are eating 2, 3 or even 4 types of potatoes?

We had a roast last Sunday, first one in ages.

Roast beef, roast potatoes, roast carrots and parsnips, red cabbage, gravy.

I'm northern and no way would I be doing both roast potatoes and mash - roast potatoes only at our house. What about all this faff when people do 5 lots of veg for Christmas Dinner, umpteen pans on the go and the kitchen full of steam, not happening with me.

We don't. I don't really understand the double carbing thing, like lasagne and chips or spaghetti bolognese and chips. It doesn't make sense to me.

I wouldn't have chips with spaghetti bolognese, maybe with lasagne but usually salad.

I do 4-5 types of veg too.

Only at Xmas.

If I have my way we have roasties, mash AND new pots :D

We go for Xmas dinner at our local Indian restaurant. DH & I have curry it DS(10) has an 'English' (roast) dinner. Last year he got lamb, sprouts, carrots, parsnips, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, boiled potatoes AND a humungous jacket potato! And no, he didn't eat it all

I wouldn't have chips with lasagne or spaghetti bolognese. I do like garlic bread & a nice salad with it though.

We have always had both! My nan always made a pot of mash for her grandchildren on a Sunday to go with the roast.