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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

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OliviaStabler · 28/06/2017 06:55

Wow, just wow Shock

Rice has no place even in the same room as a roast dinner let alone the mayo etc. I couldn't have eaten that meal (except for the Yorkshires Grin)

Elledouble · 28/06/2017 07:21

That sounds disgusting. What a pervert!

I'm vegetarian and grossed out by chicken at the best of times, but steamed chicken sounds exceptionally rank! Isn't it all pale and pappy and tasteless? Urgh. She needs to be sent to jail for the mayo alone Wink

I have had rice with Christmas dinner as part of a stuffing for roasted squash, mind.

TheWhiteRoseOfYork · 28/06/2017 08:07

The lack of anything roasted means it was not a roast. Is she on a diet OP? I have seen things like steaming meat instead of roasting as a dieters tip (mainly around Christmas time to avoid the calories of a Christmas lunch)

But- Gravy & mayo together is a lush combination (runs out of thread to avoid a roasting)

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 28/06/2017 08:11

😂😂😂 she's not Welsh or has any West Indian connections...she's a Londoner...but is from south of the river so obviously can't be trusted Wink

I don't care what anyone says...rice has NO PLACE on a roast! It's atrocious!! Never mind fucking cheese on it!

If I'm hAving a freezer roast (rather then an all from scratch roast) I quite like salad cream on the peas but mayo just, no

Fauchelevent Are you my friend if you can call her that after this madness ?! Roast dinners BORING?! They're fucking glorious!

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IHopeYouStepOnALegoPiece · 28/06/2017 08:12

I almost didn't start this thread after the cheese on curry thread I started ungrateful cunt I am but I'm so glad I did :o

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Bubblesagain · 28/06/2017 08:19

But- Gravy & mayo together is a lush combination

You're sick ! EnvyWink that's the worst part of it!

MiddleClassProblem · 28/06/2017 08:24

Hey! I'm from the south of the river! She's nothing to do with us!

PyongyangKipperbang · 28/06/2017 08:58

Well rice with a roast is no weirder than the way the British serve lasagne with chips, or curry with chips or ..... pretty much anything with chips! Its just a mash up of different cultural food norms. MIL grew up eating rice as a staple so the idea of not having rice with a meal is as strange to her as not having potatoes with a roast is to me.

Its the cheesy mayo-y gravy that I am struggling with!

MiladyThesaurus · 28/06/2017 11:52

The cheesy-mayo-gravy would be especially horrible with the rice though, I think. I can imagine it would resemble vomit quite a lot.

possumgoddess · 28/06/2017 13:08

I thought my ex-mother-in-law's was bad (beef brisket cooked the day before and sliced and served cold with boiled potatoes, hot gravy and cauliflower which had been chopped up small with its leaves and then cooked for about 3/4 hour) until I read this. Did you eat it?

HarmlessChap · 28/06/2017 13:20

The only issues to me are that it's not a roast if it's steamed and the mayo and cheese topping which to me implies the gravy isn't good enough in the first place.

Yorkshire pudding can go with anything.

Veg in a cheese sauce is great with a roast, I don't see why spinach would be different from cauliflower, leeks or cabbage.

Rice I agree is odd but is a great vehicle for a sauce so I may try it with gravy some time.

Kudos for your friend pushing the boundaries, even if I don't fully get it.

As for cheese and curry, that can be a fantastic combination. Especially on a baked potatoe.

user1498221998 · 28/06/2017 13:51

Is she Jamaican? This is their version of it.

Redesul · 28/06/2017 14:12

I do love a roast dinner. Love love love.

Do people think its the dogs bullocks because they don't know any better ? starts pulling out hair has she ever had a real roast dinner!? What on earth is happening here? passes out.

Was it chicken breasts steamed, or the whole chicken? Not that either is an excuse for this crime against humanity

OliviaStabler · 28/06/2017 14:12

Well rice with a roast is no weirder than the way the British serve lasagne with chips, or curry with chips

Ye it is, WAY weirder.

Shinesun9 · 28/06/2017 14:26

In the words of the teenage girls

I can't even

innagazing · 28/06/2017 14:33

Cheesy spinach? Shock

HappyFlappy · 28/06/2017 14:34

I feel ill!

This should not have been served to man or beast.

IceCreamIScream · 28/06/2017 14:38

I agree with TheWhiteRoseOfYork gravy and mayo is pretty lovely. Chips, gravy dips them in mayo. Food of the gods. Have even been known to put cheese on that combo too... (Dons helmet for the bashing I'm about to receive!)

But flipping heck OP, that is in no way a roast and sounds revolting. Was she drunk when she was cooking it?

diddl · 28/06/2017 14:50

"the British serve lasagne with chips, or curry with chips"

I don't know anyone who does that.

So there was nothing at all "roast" about it?

Chicken, rice & veg I could probably have gone with.

But there was gravy, cheese & mayo added?

Sounds like bits of two or three meals mixed up!

Was "infamous" the word she was after?

Redsippycup · 28/06/2017 14:53

Does she know what roasting is?!

As in, does she understand that it is an actual cooking process, not just a name for a dinner?

I have no idea wtf that was but it was not a roast dinner. Nope nope nope.

Who else has she fed it to?! Surely something can't be a 'famous' meal if you just sit on your tod and munch through it occasionally - there must be other traumatised people about that have been exposed to the monstrosity.

PyongyangKipperbang · 28/06/2017 14:57

diddl have you never been to a pub?! It doesnt happen so much now admittedly but chips with everything was the standard for years. Our local indian has "half rice/half chips" as a side order on their menu. Why is that less weird than rice with a roast?

RibenaMonsoon · 28/06/2017 15:00

There is no excusing abysmal cooking like that. So she's famous for her roast dinners? I'm not bloody surprised! Steamed chicken!?? So just some rubber on a plate then?

Roast dinner rules as far as I'm concerned.
Roast potatoes MUST be crispy on the outside and mushy in the middle.
Yorkshire, stuffing and gravy made with the ROASTED meat juices are A MUST!
All other options for choices of meat and veg are very much down to the cook.

Perhaps you could buy this lady some cooking classes for her next birthday.

HipsterHunter · 28/06/2017 15:03

I don't know anyone who does that.

@diddl pubs do it! You can have curry with chips or rice or half chips half rice!

paddypants13 · 28/06/2017 15:17

It has just occurred to me that my half English half Dutch family eat mayo with a roast instead of gravy. Is mayo without the gravy slightly more acceptable? Obviously I will immediately go nc with them!

IDoDaChaCha · 28/06/2017 15:20

Sounds like something you might crave when pregnant. Or the contents of a pigs trough, bit of everything... Not appetising in the least. And as others have said, NOT a roast as nothing is roasted x