My feed
Premium

Please
or
to access all these features

AIBU?

To wonder why anyone would get a takeaway roast?

491 replies

NewAgeWiccan · 03/04/2021 19:17

I get supporting local pubs, but I just don't understand why anyone would get a takeaway roast?

Pubs are charging £15 for a one course Sunday roast (every week, not just Easter). Which isn't exactly cheap. I would have thought this would be pretty grim once you get it home, and a home cooked roast is far superior.

OP posts:
Report
PolytheneHam · 03/04/2021 20:34

Also, virtually no washing up, and you don't even need to be reasonably presentable to get it, like you would with a carvery (when such things were possible)

Report
HeronLanyon · 03/04/2021 20:38

Never been to a car very. Never had a roast dinner either at home or in a pub or restaurant but bloody hell i think it sounds fantastic (I’ll have veggie sausages or quiche or something) plus all the trimmings.

Report
HeronLanyon · 03/04/2021 20:39

Isn’t it funny we call them ‘trimmings’.

Report
Dobbyafreeelf · 03/04/2021 20:41

Because cooking a roast with all the trimmings is far far more food than I want/need as a single person household.

Report
Butchyrestingface · 03/04/2021 20:41

Because I live alone and wouldn't wish my cooking on anyone (no, not even me).

And the £15.00 price tag doesn't put me off because I'm rolling in lots of lovely, filthy lucre.

That alright?

Report
PickAChew · 03/04/2021 20:41

For the same reason that the more fiddly elements of the roast dinner we had this evening came ready prepared from waitrose.

Report
eaglejulesk · 03/04/2021 20:48

I live on my own and often pick up a roast lunch from a place in town. Why would I bother cooking a roast meal for one? Also the meals are hugely popular for lunches (they are however, cheaper than the one you are talking about). They are most certainly not "grim" (how I hate that word used in MN context) when you get them home, and why would a home roast be superior, they are cooked in exactly the same way?

Report
MrsClatterbuck · 03/04/2021 20:51

There is a local restaurant which also has a takeaway part. A roast dinner costs £6.50 and is very nice. We just do it occasionally. We also used to live near a shop which had a brilliant hot food bar who also did dinners.

Report
picknmix1984 · 03/04/2021 20:53

I buy Cook meals for a few meals a week. It saves me the hassle of thinking and preparing food. I've got better things to do. What business is it of yours?

Report
Superstardjs · 03/04/2021 20:54

I got a takeaway roast recently, because it was a Sunday, my birthday, I was on my own, I'm not in a bubble and I wanted something to eat that I had not cooked myself. Apologies if that is not acceptable for you @NewAgeWiccan, some days I just CBA.

Report
Bluntness100 · 03/04/2021 20:54

Do you secretly want one op? Because this is a kinda odd thing to be hung up on.

Cooking a Sunday roast is a ball ache. Made from scratch gravy, made from scratch horse radish, made from scratch Yorkshire’s, red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, perfectly cooked meat, carrots, broccoli, runner beans, roast potatoes, with thr gravy, horseradish, Yorkshire’s all packaged separately.

For fifteen quid you’ll do that and bring it to my house, exactly when I want it, piping hot? Yup, come to mama,,,😃

Report
starfro · 03/04/2021 20:56

Roasts in pubs or restaurants are awful ( and I've been to some very upmarket places that have tried).

It's impossible to cook something to order that takes 2 hours. Meat or roasted potatoes hanging around are disgusting, but this is how they are served.

Equally, buying frozen roast potatoes or Yorkshire puddings is a massive culinary crime.

Report
GuildfordGal · 03/04/2021 20:59

Made from scratch gravy, made from scratch horse radish, made from scratch Yorkshire’s, red cabbage, cauliflower cheese, perfectly cooked meat, carrots, broccoli, runner beans, roast potatoes

Tbh, if I found somewhere that did all THIS ^^ (mainly the homemade horseradish), I might actually get one. Grin

Report
emilyfrost · 03/04/2021 21:00

I would have thought this would be pretty grim once you get it home,

It’s not.

and a home cooked roast is far superior.

In your opinion.

Report
eaglejulesk · 03/04/2021 21:00

Forgot to say - I'm not in the UK, and the roasts I get don't come from a pub but from a combined fish and chip/dairy shop!! They've provided roast lunches for as long as I can remember, and you can buy them frozen too. There also used to be a place in town which sold nothing but roast meals.

Report
XenoBitch · 03/04/2021 21:03

Because a full roast dinner is an absolute ball ache to make. I lack both motivation and executive function to make one.. plus since I live on my own, it would cost only a little less than ordering one in.
I would also guess that most people have been sick to the back teeth of cooking at home for the past year. I can't wait to have a pub carvery. No washing up at all.

Report
bitheby · 03/04/2021 21:03

I live alone and do a roast probably 3 Sundays a month but as a treat, I will get a takeaway roast. My local pub is only a few minutes drive away. The best one was when another pub first launched takeaway roasts last year with free delivery. I think 2 courses was £12. Well worth it.

Report
bitheby · 03/04/2021 21:05

@Butchyrestingface

Because I live alone and wouldn't wish my cooking on anyone (no, not even me).

And the £15.00 price tag doesn't put me off because I'm rolling in lots of lovely, filthy lucre.

That alright?


This really made me laugh Grin
Report
JemimaMuddledUp · 03/04/2021 21:06

Where I live a lot of older people have a roast delivered every Sunday by the pub in the village. Before Covid they would have had Sunday lunch with family, but obviously they can't now.

The portions that the pub serve are huge and a lot of older people either share one between a couple or keep half to reheat on Monday.

The roast comes with 5 or 6 different vegetables, which they would be unlikely to prepare for themselves.

Report
DDIJ · 03/04/2021 21:06

This reply has been withdrawn

Message from MNHQ: This post has been withdrawn

Jammysod · 03/04/2021 21:09

Because you get the roast without the mountain of washing up.

Report
bitheby · 03/04/2021 21:11

I was really desperate in the winter - too tired to cook - so I drove to a garden centre for a click and collect roast with a knife and fork and ate it in the back of the car in a lay-by! Needs must.

Report

Don’t want to miss threads like this?

Weekly

Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!

Log in to update your newsletter preferences.

You've subscribed!

OhWhyNot · 03/04/2021 21:14

Tempting

There is ds and I usually get chicken always lots left over some goes in the bin

I enjoy cooking but I don’t enjoy cooking a roast

Report
Anjo2011 · 03/04/2021 21:15

It’s so much nicer when a roast is cooked for you IMO. Cooking a roast at home is a thankless task
and in our house we all have different preferences on our fave meat. When we order a takeaway we
all get to choose our fave. It’s worth very penny.

Report
OhWhyNot · 03/04/2021 21:18

I love a carvery Tony cavery is great value for money I sometimes take ds in the week it’s very cheap and he loves it (or I did)

Report
Please create an account

To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.