To wonder why anyone would get a takeaway roast?

[NewAgeWiccan]

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.

[Beverley71]

I sometimes get a takeaway roast for a number of reasons: I want my local pub to still be there when lockdown ends, It’s nice to have a roast without having to stand over a stove half the day and I don’t then have copious amounts of pots to wash. Plus the kids get to choose what they want so I don’t have the nice meat and veg battle.

[Quaagars]

It's just the same as getting a take away surely?
Just like it's perfectly easy to make your own pizza instead of opening up the Just Eat app, or using the phone to say, "Hello, is that Domino's can I have a pizza?" lol
Sometimes yes I can perfectly make my own Sunday dinner but sometimes it's nice to get a take away.
Had never tried a take away Sunday roast before lockdown, but have now as it's a nice thing to do to keep the local cafes in business when they're not able to open.
They've always been absolutely delicious.
So yes, in short, YABU

[RosesAndHellebores]

@OhWhyNot - we went once to the Toby Carvery nearby when we moved here. It was awful. Queuing up for food, with an old food smell hanging in the air. The chap in front couldn't decide which gravy to have so dipped and licked his finger in each one. We had dry dinner albeit a bit of a laugh at how naff it was, and said never, ever again.

A roast at our favourite restaurant is £21 per head and OK but we don't tend to go often because DH always says nothing touches my roasts . We'd rather go out to eat on a Friday or Saturday and chose something I tend not to cook at home.

[Quaagars]

A roast at our favourite restaurant is £21 per head

[Confusedandshaken]

@Bluntness100

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,,,😃

What you are describing is a proper homemade roast dinner. I'm not averse to a pub roast once in a while, they are a comforting substitute for the real thing, but I've yet to find a pub that cooks everything from scratch the way I would at home. If I ever do £15.00 a head would be a bargain. I'll give the the red cabbage a miss though. It's like eating jam mixed with vinegar. I'll have roast parsnips instead.

[Lastfreakinglegs]

Sometimes youre exhausted and don't want to buy veg and meat / veggie option, peel veg, cook veg, wash up, etc.... I've never paid that much per head though. 8 quid per adult and 5 quid per child normally.

[OhWhyNot]

Roses you didn’t go to a good one but it’s not high dining. Of course it’s not the best roast dinner about but in the week it’s great value

A number of pubs around here do roast dinner some good others not so good £17 for something no better than a carvery

[LesLavandes]

Some single people like a roast but it's not practical to make this meal for one person

[NDSandG]

I paid for my single parent Dsis and her DC to have one delivered from a local hotel last year as an Easter present. Didn’t realise people would look down their nose at it. How does it differ from any other kind of takeaway?

[Branleuse]

cos going out for a roast is brilliant, and we arent allowed to do that?

[Bluntness100]

What you are describing is a proper homemade roast dinner

Well I’m actually not, I’m describing what the chef at our local pub cooks and they deliver, there is nothing home cooked about it, unless the person cooking it is a good professional chef.

I’d imagine it’s the same at most pubs, they ain’t buying it from Iceland and heating it up.

[Hm2020]

We used to get one from my local pub years before lockdown if we’d had a drink on the Saturday and had a hangover pre dc.

[Quaagars]

Got better things to do with their time than spend 2 hours cooking a roast?

But you don't have to stand there and watch it. You can go off and do lots of other more useful/fun things whilst it's cooking

I don't think the poster was meaning they literally stand there and watch it - yes you can go off and do other things whilst it's cooking, but you've still got to be mindful of times and stick things in at different times (eg, yorkshire puddings in nearer the end, different time to the roast potatoes etc)
I love cooking Sunday dinner and am pretty good at it if I say so myself but sometimes you just can't be arsed and want to get a take away instead lol

[BestZebbie]

Before lockdown I always said that there should be takeaway (veggie) roasts alongside the standard Chinese/curry/burger/pizza/kebab options, as often I'd fancy that more - I'm loving that they arrived in 2020!

[3CCC]

Our local which is renowned for their Sunday carvery and they've started doing takeaways since lockdown began

They're very popular and really good by all account

[KingdomScrolls]

PIL get over from the village pub two minutes from their front door, they take their own plates, it's served up with foil domes over the top, they cross the road, sit down and eat it at home, a free minutes after our was put on the plate, gravy comes in tubs. I've had a roast in that pub in non Covid times, delicious like the best home cooked roast with none of the washing up. If I lived there I'd do it

[Bluntness100]

@Quaagars

Got better things to do with their time than spend 2 hours cooking a roast?

But you don't have to stand there and watch it. You can go off and do lots of other more useful/fun things whilst it's cooking

I don't think the poster was meaning they literally stand there and watch it - yes you can go off and do other things whilst it's cooking, but you've still got to be mindful of times and stick things in at different times (eg, yorkshire puddings in nearer the end, different time to the roast potatoes etc)
I love cooking Sunday dinner and am pretty good at it if I say so myself but sometimes you just can't be arsed and want to get a take away instead lol

Agree ,,making a Sunday lunch is not just shoving some meat in thr oven

It’s making thr yorkshires, making the gravy, preparing and cooking the veg, peeling potatoes and cooking them, it’s not something you take out the fridge, bung in the oven and pop off to do fun things, unless your Sunday roast is a ready meal

[Howshouldibehave]

The same reason as why anyone gets any sort of takeaway, surely. They want to eat that meal but don’t want to have to cook it!

Is that really difficult to understand?

[Snowrabbit]

Gosh such defensive responses to an innocent question! I usually find pub/ restaurant roasts to be a bit disappointing. Cold Yorkshires, not great roast potatoes, all a bit dried up etc. Have had the odd exception. Nothing wrong with having one if you want but OP is right that they are nothing like a freshly made roast at home with everything just cooked and so at the right temperature and consistency.

[Sparklingbrook]

Gosh such defensive responses to an innocent question!

Lol at 'innocent question' the OP has disappeared so presumably they aren't that interested....

[GrandDuchessRomanov]

Well DH and I will be doing just that on the 25th of April. It's not something we have ever done before but we are staying in a cottage for 2 nights in the Yorkshire Dales and having such limited time and being unsure of equipment in the kitchen the last thing we want to be doing is fannying about doing a roast.

The pub is literally next door and whilst I don't expect it to be anywhere near as good as one of Dh's excellent roasts (he is the cook in this house) it's convenient and giving the village a much needed boost to their economy.

We desperately need to support these rural pubs.

[Flowers24]

I would!!

[LyingWitchInTheWardrobe]

Oh come on, the OP doesn't really want to know, she just wants to judge. Sad really but there do seem to be some really sad posters about just spoiling for an argument..

I expect this non-question will end up as an unpopular opinion next time the thread crops up (in a day or so).

We've been ordering takeaways from local places in the last year, more so than usual. We want the local businesses to stay afloat if they can. It's been a crap year-and-a-bit for so many.

[Snowrabbit]

Honestly - really feel people have to be terribly insecure to be wound up by this! Do people really have such wounded egos at being thought inferior because someone wonders why someone buys a pub roast when a homemade one is much better in their opinion Why would you feel "judged" ? Bizarre!