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To think this is an abomination of a roast dinner!

317 replies

IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 27/06/2017 18:55

Friend asked if I wanted to stay for her "famous roast dinner" as she'd cooked plenty.

Now I fucking love a roast dinner so was thrilled...it was Steamed chicken, peas, cheesy spinach, cauli, Yorkshire, stuffing and rice all covered in gravy and cheese with a big dollop of mayo.

Rice...in a roast...with gravy on

I love her dearly but AIBU to think she's fucking insane HmmGrin

OP posts:
WeAreEternal · 27/06/2017 19:59

This is exactly how I read your comments op (in the voice of sir Patrick Stuart.)

To think this is an abomination of a roast dinner!
myrtleWilson · 27/06/2017 20:00

I love mayo but am struggling to place it even in a no-roast roast dinner wth rice but with cheesy spinach...

BlossomCat · 27/06/2017 20:01

My Mum tells me that she has a 'famo7s chocolate cake'
The only thing that it's famous for in our house, is my son, who loves food in all forms, now hates all chocolate cake, as he thinks that they all tastes like his grandmother's.

Anyone who calls their own cooking 'famous' has delusions of grandeur.

chocolateworshipper · 27/06/2017 20:02

Surely you took a photo of the abomination to share with your MN sisters?

Invite her round for a curry and serve it with roast potatoes and ketchup

sandyposy · 27/06/2017 20:05

Steamed chicken sounds vile but but but - all those elements go into carbtastic trinidad-style Sunday lunch: baked chicken (in a seasoned gravy), rice, macaroni pie (diff from mac n cheese, baked into a firm peie but always with lots of cheese), stewed peas (i.e. kidney beans etc), calalloo (kind of like spinach, cooked with okra and coconut) and sides of potato salad (with mayo) maybe coleslaw. It all goes together beautifully, though your friends mayo/cheese/rice etc combo does sound very odd OP

CheeseOfHearts · 27/06/2017 20:06

The most upsetting roast dinner related thing I ever heard before this was my friend's family who used to THROW AWAY cold roast potatoes Shock. This, though, is a new level of food wrongness. No roasties at all. I'm currently pregnant and hormonal and may cry...

Peanutbutterrules · 27/06/2017 20:09

My eyes crossed at steamed chicken...then fell out of my head at the mayo!

How could anyone eat that combination???

Willow2017 · 27/06/2017 20:10

It's not roasted.
It's got rice.
It's got cheese twice. (Wtf?)
It's got mayo.

Not even in the 9 levels of hell would that be considered a roast dinner.

Give her a recipe book!

indigox · 27/06/2017 20:10

"Famous roast" where nothing is actually roasted

HaudYerWheeshtBawbag · 27/06/2017 20:11

nothing about that is a Sunday dinner its a mish mash of food, cooked in a crap way.

BreakfastAtSquiffanys · 27/06/2017 20:13

According to the Urban Dictionary, an alternative definition of roast is
"To humorously mock or humiliate someone with a well-timed joke, diss or comeback"

Guepe · 27/06/2017 20:14

My partner's side of the family (French Canadian) usually make a rice dish with a roast (wild rice though, not basmati or alike!)

What type of rice was it and how was it served? Just a pile of it on its own?

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 27/06/2017 20:16

I think she meant "Infamous"

Seriously, steamed chicken? Fuck off with that shit.

Dont get me started on the rest.

CigarsofthePharoahs · 27/06/2017 20:16

How in any way can that be described as a roast dinner? That's just plain wrong.
No roast potatoes? They're the best bit! And to top it off with mayo - that's just sacrelidge.
"And it came to pass that some were claiming to proffer a roast dinner that broke the commandments. Thou shalt have roast meat, though shalt have roast potatoes. The heathens broke these sacred laws and were cast out into the darkness where there was a wailing and a gnashing of teeth. Suffering shall be given to those who would add mayo to the divine dish of roast."
Book of The Roast, Chapter 1 verses 1 through 5.

drummergirl34 · 27/06/2017 20:17

sue her.

SimplyNigella · 27/06/2017 20:19

You lost me on "my famous roast dinner". I have never yet been anything but bemused and disappointed when served something which the creator refers to in that way.

CarlPoppaJaJiggyJarJardoo · 27/06/2017 20:21

DP is Jamaican he always puts rice with a roast dinner it was weird at first but I'm used to it now.

OohMavis · 27/06/2017 20:22

Rice has its place on a roast.

I, too, was a non-believer until DH showed me the way.

But there also needs to be roast potatoes.

MaidenMotherCrone · 27/06/2017 20:22

Are there children in the house Op?

If so get them out NOW!

Then get away from there, as fast as you can, don't look back just keep moving.

Oddsocksforeveryone · 27/06/2017 20:22

Think I would have called 111 from the bathroom as pretty sure here in Yorkshire a "roast" like that would be considered a crime.
At the very least I would have stolen all the Yorkshires, they deserve better than that.

OohMavis · 27/06/2017 20:23

Rice on roasts is a Caribbean thing. It works, try it!

yourcarisnotadiscovery · 27/06/2017 20:24

that's hilarious! however, I do feel your pain - a few years ago, hungover as anything, a friend invited me and my flatmate over for supper and promised it was roast chicken - it was bloody span bol!! Was so gutted...

yourcarisnotadiscovery · 27/06/2017 20:25

span bol? swag bol! (autocorrect fail!)

Redglitter · 27/06/2017 20:26

Love that she calls it her famous roast Hmm Not sure it's famous in the way she thinks it is. Certainly sounds an ehm interesting meal!! You need to find out if she's 'famous' for any other culinary delights Grin

yourcarisnotadiscovery · 27/06/2017 20:26

and a-bloody-gain! sodding spaghetti bol. arghh