To think salad and mash is just not cricket?

[OverTheHammer]

A plate of salad with a dollop of mash potato is dirty isn't it??!

🤢 My own fault for asking.

@ReinettePompadour Chsmp: that sounds like the food of the gods and I want some NOW!
Salad and mash?...not so much

Mashed tatties are disgusting on any plate

They have no place anywhere!

Horrible Horrible Stuff

Bahahaha! So glad to see this thread!

MIL insists on serving mash and salad after Christmas, says it's 'traditional'. The mash is dry, the salad is naked. Sometimes we're allowed piccalilli. By the 3rd day of eating this (I kid you not) I could barely choke it down except if washed down by large quantities of Sauvignon Blanc and tears.

Dh was oblivious to just how weird it is.

Cold mash, with some finely chopped onion and salad cream (not mayonnaise) stirred through is the delicious potato salad of my childhood.
Hot mash with salad is wrong, though I'm not sure why as I find a buttered boiled potato delicious on a salad, and the difference is only a forking.

did you just SLAG OFF creamed leeks with a roast dinner?! HEATHEN!

I stand by my comments! Muddled gravy and cream all over a plate just isn't cricket.

A few years ago when my DD was pregnant with her DD,we went to a carvery for a meal. She didn't fancy a roast so ordered a salad instead. But she asked me and her DH,who were having the roast,to get some extra Yorkshire puddings for her to have with her salad.

Totally. Needs grated cheese on it, that does.

Cherrytree, being served salad with mash spud and spam was a 1970s school dinner staple for me! Which might be why I agree it is wrong now. Salad and chips? Yes, please! Salad and new potatoes? Yummy. Even salad and a jacket spud, but there is something amiss with the idea of mash and salad.

Well my dear FIL used to boil potatoes, sprouts, carrots and peas all in one saucepan and serve that up with the Christmas turkey. I think salad and mash is perfectly okay. DH would simply adore it; he's vegetarian so is just grateful when there's no meat.

ThreeSangriasFloor

"My dad's quick go-to dinner for himself is scrambled eggs and mash."

But mash is hardly quick! Or is it instant mash?!

Mash and salad is wrong, even with meat

my husband puts gravy on lettuce and has it with beans. i tell him off for it every time, so wrong!

I can't believe anyone can be offended by mash and salad when a meal of such abomination has been mentioned on this thread by ThreeSangrias. Mash and scrambled eggs

My brain cannot compute a meal of such heinous levels of beigeness. Please ThreeSangrias you have to rescue your father, buy that man a Delia cookbook immediately!!!

I like mash and raw onions. I am aware the world thinks it filthy so eat it when nobody else is in. (Somebody up to house a spare DH and kids for a bit?)

We do however have mash, beetroot, pickles etc with cold meat on Boxing Day. I hate it, but suffer it for DP who says it's traditional (must be a Kent thing, never had it in the Midlands)

No it is definitely a Midlands thing as well. It was traditional in our house too and I've always lived in the (East) Midlands.

Raw and onions and mash or chives and mash with a hearty cheese salad and coleslaw YUM!

PoppyFleur

"I can't believe anyone can be offended by mash and salad when a meal of such abomination has been mentioned on this thread by ThreeSangrias. Mash and scrambled eggs"

Now that I could stomach. At least they're both hot, and after all it's egg and chips in another form, and potentially low fat!

I have a problem with hot and cold items together, so while I happily wolf down potato salad, I struggle with any sort of hot potatoes with a cold green salad.

This is coming from the same person that doesn't like anything sweet with a savoury dish, so apple sauce, cranberry sauce, and mint jelly are out for pork, turkey, and lamb, but all three are fine with ice cream!

I'm also all for orange juice and yoghurt "with bits" but can't bear the slightest lump in my mash. That must be related to school dinner mash I think.

I'm still wanting to know whether this quick dinner involves boiling and mashing real potatoes, which doesn't seem especially quick, or instant mash (robotic and awful) or frozen (actually rather good).

paxillin

"I like mash and raw onions. I am aware the world thinks it filthy so eat it when nobody else is in. (Somebody up to house a spare DH and kids for a bit?)"

Yup. Come on over and bring the kids. Raw onions and mash? Is that with cheese and butter. And just-hard boiled eggs?

In hospital, I was served omelette and gravy .

I got served beef burger (no bun) mash tinned tomatoes (loads) and salad ..... I decided the food was so crap to make you discharge yourself

I once had a hospital meal of three tinned tomatoes hit on a piece of toast.

With juice.

Hot, not hit.

Salad with mash, yuck. Salad with chips or baby potatoes, and loads of garlic mayo or cesar salad sauce, yum! Especially with grated cheese

"I like mash and raw onions"

Have you ever tried champ? Mash with chopped scallions (spring onions), mixed in, it's lovely.