To think this is an abomination of a roast dinner!

[IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece]

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

can someone take pity on a ignorant vegetarian and explain roasting a chicken? Surely it'd take hours

Veggie also but used to make roast chicken until dh turned veggie, took about 1:30 to 2hrs depending on size, sticking a lemon up its butt and lots of herby butter on it used to make it taste nice apparently.

Sorry steaming. Even I get roasting :)
I always thought steaming was for quite thin vegetables where you wanted them crunchy

I would go NC over the lack of roast potatoes alone. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life, OP!

Fair play, that's actually made me heave.

Thanks.

@ConfidentlyUnhinged

You actually just made me laugh out loud!!!

Where the holy fuck were the roast potatoes?

An abomination!

Now I do an imperial roast chicken (that Oliver bloke stole my idea). Chicken rubbed with a spicy tandoori sauce before ROASTING.

So it's still roast chicken, I do serve with yellow sticky rice and salad but also with roast potatoes & mutiple veg including ROAST carrots and parsnips. The salad is for family that are on medically advised diets, but even they will risk a toast spud.

And there must be leftover potatoes, and they are mine all mine MMMYHAAAA. Though I have to have become more inventive in hiding places (bloody hollow legend DNs)

In short OP cut her off now!!!!!!

You've really upset me with that op

I'm sorry but she's not your friend, no true friend would make you eat something like that.
My cat has done turds more appetising than that shit storm of a 'roast' dinner.

I am the roast dinner queen.
When I'm off to someones for dinner, they usually make a roast, so I've proper done the rounds and what you were presented with was NOT a roast dinner.
In any way, shape or form. It doesn't sound nice at all! Poor you OP.
(I don't eat mayo, so to have that on my dinner would horrify me!)

the horror!

You misheard her, she actually invited you to stay for her famous RICE dinner.

I actually wonder if this might be true? Because she didn't actually roast anything so why would it be a roast dinner.

And the mayo .... words fail me. And the way the gravy appeared out of nowhere - did it come from a tin or gravy granules or something like a deus ex machina?

Witchcraft. Suggest roasting said 'friend's' head in oven to demonstrait how it is done. Going to go remove beef from freezer- feel the need for a propper roast just to purge the thought of that monstrosity

This thread is hilarious because I think British roast/sunday dinners suck because there are no rice and peas, no macaroni... it's just so... boring

She's testing your friendship and you have failed.

You were supposed to tell her the truth & now she's sitting at home all upset because she had to cook all that crap, eat it herself also & make herself seem like a total loon.

Face it, you've blown it

Fauchelevent Wash your mouth out!!!!!

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

Aw man, what's that all about?!
Very nice she invited you round for dinner. Not so very nice that she tried to pass that off as roast dinner though!!
Mayo and rice do not belong in a roast dinner.
Roast dinner =
Meat (beef, chicken, turkey, lamb, gammon) (or Quorn/nut roast if needing a veggie version)
Roast potatoes. Plenty of them.
Vegetables. Broccoli, leeks, carrots, cabbage etc
Stuffing.
Big fat Yorkshire puddings.
Lashings of gravy whether veggie gravy or not..

As I said above, Jamaican DH has rice with roasts as do others on the thread.

But the mayo and the cheesy gravy lead me to believe that this is infamous rather than famous. So many people she has fed talk about her dinners that she thinks they are popular when the truth is they are simply well known about!

For some reason i imagine the steamed chicken woman to have a Welsh accent

Does she, OP?

As I said above, Jamaican DH has rice with roasts as do others on the thread

Sorry, missed that post, but as a Yorkshire bird through and through I can tell ya rice should not be anywhere near a Sunday dinner.

I cooked an ultimate roast dinner for my aunt and uncle visiting from abroad. Rib roast with gravy made from meat juices, roasted crispy potatoes, cauliflower cheese, baby parsnips, sausage meat stuffing balls, mash etc. Absolutely lush, plus opened a bottle of chateau neuf that I had been saving that was lovely.

My uncle poured chulula hot sauce all over his plate including gravy. My aunt added lemonade to her wine. I have never cooked for them again....

Postscript to the above post - my aunt and uncle are from Australia.

There's a guy in our local who always takes his family there for the Sunday carvery. He piles up his plate with each of the three meats, and every single item on the carvery. He then goes and sits by himself (family on another table) and proceeds to add ketchup, tobasco, brown sauce, tartare sauce, horseradish, mustard (English and dijon), mint sauce and Lea & Perrins. ALL OVER. Then he goes back to the carvery & ladles another layer of gravy over the top.

We thought he sat by himself because he needed extra space for the condiments, but OH reckons his family are too embarrassed to have him sit with them!

Lemonade in Chateauneuf? Sacrilege

I'm angry on your behalf op. I bloody love a roast that abomination you were served is not a roast. I want a roast dinner now.

I would have been sick on the plate

Famous roast my arse

Can't imagine Sunday dinner without rice.

But the rest of the friend's meal sounds like a good way to make vomit. Mayo and gravy and cheese, ewww. It could turn you against food! In fact, I don't ever want to eat again just thinking about it.

The tandoori roast chicken with sticky rice sounds delicious. Mmmm, I love food