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

[Babysafari]

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

Always both. I'd be baffled if I had a roast dinner without both.

And Yorkshire puddings. Filled with gravy.

no mash.

roast because traditionally you put the potatoes round the meat in the same dish, and they roast in the meat fat that runs off.
(we don't do that because there isn't any room)

Why would you bother with mash as well? What a waste of time and effort!

Roasties - no mash for me. MIL does both - always. I thought it was odd at first - but I quite like mash...

Ooh yes, love cold roast potatoes. Almost more than hot ones! I put a couple aside beforehand if i think they will all get eaten then have with salt later.

And cauliflower cheese and roast potatoes is lovely together with yorkshires

I am vegetarian though so used to cobbling together weird combinations when eating with family or in restaurants. But we always used to have it when we were younger with a roast.

Mash and roast potatoes? Together?

NO.

Mash is definitely the poor relation of the cooked potato world. To plonk it on a plate beside roast potatoes would be like Peter Andre singing a duet with Kate Bush. Wrong.

It's slap in the face to the mighty roast potato. Get that mash off the bloody plate.

What I find weird is when people are surprised or 'baffled' by a very slight culinary variation! Sure, it may not be exactly the same as how you do it, but it's a different way of preparing potatoes. .. It's not suddenly deciding to put a roast penguin on top... Surely if you've lived a while in the UK and ventured out once or twice, you'll have seen pretty much all the combinations listed on this thread??

We do only at Christmas It's obviously just too decadent to have both in our family traditions!

I see the roast and mash combo as more of a manufactured band squoosh yes the roast potatoes are good looking and crunchy but they can't sing on their own they need the plainer mash to carry them.
Take the mash away and well how many ex spice girls made a good solo career?

Roasties only .... Never mash - eurgghhh and Yorkshire puds with every roast dinner!

Definitely both!! And to those people saying that mash is the poor relation of the potato family, you must be doing it wrong!

We always had roast and mashed potatoes and sometimes boiled as well.

(also I grew up going to a posh hotel on the south coast for lots of holidays, and every meal they served (silver service) there was two types of potatoes - so double carbs all the way!)

'We always had roast and mashed potatoes and sometimes boiled as well.'

I bet you sat around your potato laden dinner table wearing clothes made of potatoes too!

But Notso the roast potatoes have the looks and the talent. Mashed potato is that boring cousin that everyone hopes won't turn up because he brings no zhuzz or fun to the party.

Roast potato - Rolling Stones
Mashed potato - Dire Straits (really dire)

I think it's traditional to have both because potatoes were seen as cheap fillers, when people couldn't afford a lot of meat. Now people are more health conscious and have just one. Also, there is a greater range of veg to put on a roast dinner now. I don't think 50 years ago, when jobs were more physical, they would have been counting carbs.

No just roasts although if someone else wants to make me mash as well I'd happily eat both! I do sometimes do roasts and sweet potato mash as well. Yum.

If I'm doing a roast I do both as well as roast parsnips and buttered carrots and peas. Plus I do broccoli 2 ways, steamed or creamed. Usually another green like cabbage too and other seasonal veg like corn, asparagus and broad beans.Then we get into the sauces, gravy etc. Always mint sauce regardless of meat, mustard, horseradish and a ton of stuffing. Plus, I always do small one portion Yorkshire puddings and a big one and pigs in blankets regardless of whether it's turkey or chicken.

We all eat a ton, and we all pick what we like. It's rare that people have both types of potato but they all go.

But then, we only go for a roast when we are all together with at least one set of grandparents, or siblings and cousins. It's a big day and a big meal. Maybe once every six weeks?

My kids look forward to it so much. They even know we change the mash for new potatoes in season.

Roasts should be a feast and not frequent.

No way squoosh roast is the uncle in a midlife crisis who turns up wearing leather trousers with a glamour model girlfriend. Initially exciting but the novelty soon wears off. Mash is the comforting lovely best friend.

Mash and roast - The Beatles

Roast alone - Paul McCartney doing his cringey peace signs

When DH first suggested this I looked at him like he was mad. His mum always did it, she is Irish and he grew up in Birmingham. My parents and grandparents never did this so I say firmly roast potatoes only with roast dinner.

His mum always served spag bol with a beefburger on top of the mince too

Always had both. Irish grandparents.

I know Northerners people who do this but to me it's rather bizarre. That being said, my family always do a cheese dish which can be the traditional-ish cauli cheese but could equally be leek or even macaroni cheese with roast dinner. And I'm sure people are horrified at that

My parents are Irish too, big fans of potato.

We also had bread and butter with lots of meals too. To bulk it up I suppose, not with roast though. My mum would never have made pasta. We had some variation of a roast 3 times a week, egg and chips with beans and bread and butter, a curry always with rice and naan, a fish pie with some kind of potato and a chilli con carni on a Saturday a a treat.

What about potato with say a fishcake that already contains potato?

Yes for me I have to have mashed and roast potatoes

Yes to both. At Christmas we always had mash, roast and new potatoes!

Fishcakes and chips are perfectly acceptable.

Bread and butter is mandatory with every meal in this house. Either to mop up sauce, or if it's a dry meal to make a butty with. Bloody love carbs me 🍞😍

Fish cakes and chips is so acceptable and I'm another fan of bread and butter when I can get it!