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??!

Salad and mash, salad and roasties, salad with rice or pasta. Salad is always good. There is no meal that I wouldn't serve salad with. I bloody love salad..and mash...and roasties.

I am completely over thinking this. Salad and mash, no never. Salad with new potatoes, or jacket potatoes is absolutely fine. So why not really?

I am from up North where we have mash AND roasts with our Sunday lunch - very odd according to my Southern friends. But I am going off on a tangent ...

Because mash is different. It just is.

Salad and wedges

Salad and boiled potatoes with butter and salt.

Salad and jackets.

Salad and chips (with pizza or lasagne)

Never salad with mash.

Mash and roasties with Sunday lunch is standard and I would get the face on if there wasn't both.

😂 Salad goes with just about anything. But so does mash.

I'll not stick my neck out too far though.. being told by colleagues dipping my marmite or cheese and jam sandwiches in coffee is gross..? But nowt wrong with them dipping biscuits in! 😲

Mama its wen u dip ur marmite sandwichesin cream u gotta worry:)

Mash and spring onions and corned beef all mixed together. Served with salad. It's lovely

IamaBluebird

"Mash and spring onions and corned beef all mixed together"

Yum! My mum used to make corned beef omelettes, and they are one of my favourite dishes to this day, together with meat and potato pie and fried egg on fried bread.

It's a huge shame that our canned "corned beef" is so completely different from the original salt beef, but dice it and use it to fill an omelette (I use a milk pan and three eggs—makes a lovely deep omelette) and you have created something heavenly!

Guess it depends on culture,possibly this is not staid British faire. But in Hong Kong I have seen much more interesting combinations, in fact folk like to push it a bit with new combos and exchanging them to find out what works for them and their friends

fried onions mixed into mash with grated cheese.winner
this has reminded me of school wen any combination of any foods seemed to be served some days.

As we're into hozy food, DH (same veggie as previously) had an accident - concussion and right arm in sling. His 'vegetarian option' lunch was a whole, unopened baked potato 🥔 in a polystyrene box. No cutlery to cut it up, hard as a lump of rock and 'stone' cold.

Was it Smash? LOL :D

Creamy mash mixed with beans and tomato sauce is heaven.

Yesterday I witnessed someone eat corned beef hash with an egg on top.

Mash and baked beans was my favourite as a child. Called it 'pink potato'.

Sweetcorn and gravy is the boy.

All this talk of corned beef is making me hungry. I have just added a tin to my Tesco shop. To eat mixed with my mash and spring onions and with AN EGG on top strawberrisc.

Mash and baked beans was my favourite as a child. Called it 'pink potato'

That's beany mash pie in our house. Like cottage pie but way downmarket.

Ba ha ha ha KnowsStuff! It was pretty much - he fell down the stairs and landed on his head ..... never been the same since. Shouldn't laugh 😂

Clearly need a new gourmet thread for connoisseurs of mash with salad - Quirky, Creepy, Cherry, Messy, Luppa, Liiinoo and ME. Sounds like the seven dwarves. And I think we should invite Ada who appreciates the finer points of dripping on toast. And to those who are claiming salad and pink stained mash are the legacy of 70s school dinners, I promise you they were also a mainstay of the 50s and 60s school dinners as well - in fact, it was probably the same pan of lumpy spuds reheated in the 70s.

This looks helpful... Although anyone who'd put tinned fruit salad on the same plate as some crappy bolognaise and wet peas needs shooting.

Urgle...that is so very very very wrong. That is not a meal. That is an abomination!

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Pontyman that made me lol as my OH calls me tge paddy dwarf...
Anyway, I nipped into the co-op last night to get some salad stuff and "whoops-a-daisy" bought a pot of ready mash to go with it.
After warming it up, grating several pounds of cheddar on it, adding a generous dollop of coleslaw, I sat down to savour it.
Well, if that'd been my first experience of mash'n'salad it would've been my last.

There were NO LUMPS in my mash!!
FFS

I think the answer to why mash and salad is wrong but new potatoes/wedges/chips and salad isn't it down to texture.

The presence of skins and/ or crispiness on aforementioned potatoes mirrored the crispness of salad (if it's a good salad of course).

Mash is soft. Crisp salad and soft potato. Wrong.