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.

My family never did this but had to get used to it last few years as DP insists it's the right way. He doesn't like mashed swede & carrot though. I let him use a little of the potato for mash, keeps him happy, but make sure majority are roasted. I like the carrot & swede though so I get far too much!

I've never heard of two types of potatoes with a roast dinner - only ever roasted ones here, with other roasted veggies. I'm Australian though - maybe we're doing it wrong?

Southern here.
But northern and Irish parents.

NEVER heard of this but my god it sounds amazing!!!

DH is a fan of roasting EVERYTHING... Potatoes, veg, anything...
I much prefer steaming my veggies and mash is the food of the gods.

Yup. This is happening in my immediate future.

Mash and roast together is so good. I only do it for an occasion Sunday lunch or Xmas though.

Of course mash is inferior. The potato heirarchy goes: roasted, chips, duchess, croquette, baked, mashed and finally the sad, pointless boiled potato.

And although I've never been known to turn down any potato (apart from the dreaded tinned potato) my heart belongs to roasties. 💕😋

I used to do both. My mum always used to do both - looking back it was probably to make the meat go further! I don't anymore though, got sick of husband moaning it wasn't normal.

N.Ireland...every Sunday
Roasties and mash, the mashed potatoes has to be done with a little warm milk and loads of butter.
Roasties - potatoes are par boiled then roughened with fork and are roasted in duck fat.
NEVER frozen roasties, that's like comparing brass to gold.

No not both - I hate mash but adore roast potatoes especially crunchy ones.

With my roast goes Yorkshire pud ( with every meat), roast potatoes, roast parsnips, mashed swede, corn, broccoli & cauliflower cheese.

And a fuck load of gravy...

How can you claim to have an Irish parent and not know you HAVE to have mash potato and roast potato, chicken/beef or pork for Sunday dinner?!

Potato hierarchy:
Chips and French fried
Dauphinois etc
Roast
Pomme vapeur
Buttered new
Assorted crunchy eg croquette
Mash
Plain boiled

The rules of a roast are as follows: heap of mashed potatoes (with butter, milk, and copious amounts of white pepper), roast potatoes, lovely mushy marrowfat peas, roast carrots, parsnips and onions, beef or chicken, and oceans of gravy. Stuffing must be cooked in a separate dish, and be all lovely and crispy. Brussels sprouts should be all lovely and soft. If there's a ham, the fat should be chucked in with all the veggies. If not, rashers make a decent substitute.

I do at Christmas. And I also do Yorkshires and many other vegetables and sauces which I'd not usually bother. On an average roast day I just do roast potatoes.

I do both, however my mash is tattie, swede and carrot all mashed in with butter.

But I also do cauliflower cheese, braised cabbage and Yorkshire puddings, as well as broccoli and carrots, as a extra veg.

Pork and chicken always come with stuffing, and beef comes with fresh gravy.

We have both.

YABU I was once arranging a works Christmas dinner and a colleague insisted that mash was a key ingredient. The pubs in the local area must have missed the memo as I rang round about 15 places and none served mash alongside roasts. Definitive enough for me to say it's unusual, even more so for a big standard Sunday roast.

I do both. Dp doesn't. Both based on what our families did.
I'm not sure if its a Northern thing or a working class thing - maybe combination. Its definitely the cheap way of filling up!

Cauliflower cheese is the one that bothers me, completely and utterly wrong with a roast dinner.

Ah no its key here whoknows all my family would go nuts if I did not serve it, I have family around once a month (about 15 people) however ds aunt says hernsunday dinner is not complete without sweet corn (as in corn in the cob) for me that's for chicken/ribs and sides wedges, coleslaw, etc...

I'm about as Northern as you get without going into Scotland and it's always been both for me!

Meat, roasts, mash, mashed carrot and turnip, roast parsnips, runner beans/broccoli, Yorkshire pudding (regardless of meat choice) and gravy... Yum!

My family would think I'd gone nuts if I served cauliflower cheese with a roast, it's not something either of our families have ever done. I love cauliflower cheese ss a standalone meal, but no way with a roast.

Both if I'm cooking.

Oh and YP with every roast ever, and sometimes just because. And sometimes for breakfast with golden syrup.

What about pigs in blankets? I have those at Christmas and occasionally on Sunday roast, think that's definitely a British thing!

Lovely and soft brussel sprouts????? Bleurggh. 2 minutes in the saucepan max or they are inedible.

There's a reason everyone hates sprouts and it's people overcooking them.

Whoknows I'm with you on the cauliflower cheese too. Made properly it's a lovely meal in it's own right. What is it doing with a roast?

Both. You need the crunch of the roast potato and the gravy soaking property of the mashed potatoes.
I find it most disappointing if we go out for Sunday lunch and there's only roast potatoes.