Questionable pub roast dinner

[Choccablock]

I may be being unreasonable here so please do say?

I went to a pub for a roast this afternoon. It wasn't a good meal. It just didn't taste of anything other than gravy. (It was also missing the Yorkshire pudding and parsnip as promised on the menu)

My AIBU is, the menu said 'seasonal green vegetables'. But all I was given was huge helping of lettuce and a few half carrots.

Am I being greedy to think lettuce isn't particularly seasonal, and expected another vegetable at least?

I'm happy to be told I'm being unreasonable. I was just a bit at the huge pile of lettuce

It wasn't a good meal. It just didn't taste of anything other than gravy.

Meh. That's pretty much how I feel about roasts in general.
But, lettuce?! You must mean cabbage or you would be more shocked than you seem to be. AYBU to think lettuce isn't seasonal? YABU if that's your only issue with lettuce on a roast!

Lettuce eh? Sounds crap. I wouldn’t even eat the linked little gem number. The only thing I’d eat raw/cooked, which resembles lettuce is chicory.

Roast dinners are never nice out though. How can they be when everything needs to be cooked fresh and served up straight away?

Please tell me you got lettuce and cabbage mixed up

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I'm hoping you mean cabbage. But yes when you order a bag of spring greens from Tesco then it's a bag of shredded cabbage (as I found out last week).

If I have a pub roast dinner it has to be a carvery to get the right meat/veg ratio IMO. And I can make sure i only get the bits I like.

Never had lettuce though.

Lettuce hope OP will give answer to these questions if we say, "Peas nicely."
Anyone who serves lettuce with roast deserves to be carrotted. This sort of thing needs to be parsnipped in the bud before it sprouts up everywhere. You never know what will turnip when you order a meal these days.

Lettuce with a roast dinner?! Well I never. . As for no yorkies,that is downright criminal IMO. ,

Cooked lettuce can be delicious and we often have it with a fancy roast but it's braised in white wine and butter with peas - classic French dish. Maybe they were overreaching?

Technically you can grow winter lettuce but thinking of what is in season I would be expecting cabbage, leeks, chard, cauliflower, sprouts. Carrots this time of year are seldom a thing of joy!

Is it possible the lettuce was under cooked cabbage?

Why are you telling us? Surely the people to raise the issue with are the managers of the pub.

and yes, for the record I would not accept lettuce as a seasonal veg with a roast dinner, broccoli or cabbage yes ,even plain cauliflower at a pinch, lettuce no.

Why on earth didn't you ask about the missing Yorkshire pudding and parsnips? And question the lettuce/cabbage while you were at it?

Mountain

I'm one of the few people alive that DETESTS gravy as I think it makes all good taste of ... gravy. However, the lettuce. The lettuce? OMG my eyes.

• all food.

Bloody autocorrect. You just know if I'd actually wanted to write good it would have come out food.

Feckin lettuce?? I can't even...

So you ordered a roast dinner and got lettuce in gravy ?
I would have questioned it at the time, (as in WTF is this ????)rather than feel inwardly miffed and question whether I was unreasonable - clearly you weren't unreasonable to expect a roast dinner not to be some kind of crazy gravy-salad.

And no excuse for lack of yorkshire pudding - they aren't seasonal.

Really enjoying the outrage over lettuce. This might be the most British thread ever .
I really want a roast dinner now...

I’m also intrigued by the lettuce, are you sure it wasn’t cabbage?

Did you say anything at the time?

I think of someone served me lettuce with my Sunday lunch I would question the meal and the sanity of the chief.

It wasn't the Red Lion at Bakewell, was it? They once served my mother a meal that included salad with gravy.

OP, come back. We NEED to know if it really was lettuce.

Lettuce and gravy
Yum

I’ve given up on pub roast dinners tbh, which is a shame, but they are never very nice.

I went to a friend’s for Sunday roast dinner once, got served meat, potatoes, peas and Super Noodles. I thought that was weird enough but lettuce is even weirder.