To think bangers and mash implies veg too?

[Crowsaregreat]

My kids love sausage and mash. I always do it with at least one type of veg, preferably two. Peas, carrots, broccoli sort of thing.

We stayed with PIL a while ago and MIL did sausage and mash that was exactly that - sausage, mash, gravy. Then recently my DM did the same.

It won't do DC any harm but I thought it was odd. I don't think I'd ever give DC just meat + potato for dinner unless it was a desperate situation. AIBU to think it's weird to have a dinner with no veg?

"Fish and chips needs mushy peas surely?"

Ideally, yes, they add some moistness, but the portions are so big I can't have all three things so either fish and chips or fish and peas or chips and peas.

" If I say we're having toad in the hole, fish pie, shepherds pie, moussaka, lasagne etc they all come with veg or salad. Never just served on their own. Just because you don't say the veg it would always be assumed here."

All of those things are meals in themselves.

Most curry has veg cooked into it, though, doesn’t it? It’s often tomato and onion and ginger and garlic cooked down in a paste with spices.

Either with peas and gravy or baked beans (no gravy)

@Essentialironingwater

YANBU, I think all these people banging on about meat curry alone or fish and chips are bonkers too. Would be surprised if I ordered fish and chips in a pub and it came without peas, spag bol we have salad, we eat veggie curries - it's not a meal without a vegetable. Fish and chips without veg by the sea in paper, maybe, but I've never had a veg-less meal in someone's home.

You eat veggie curries but many people don't.

My sister and her DH are pretty healthy eaters but if they go out for a curry they both have a chicken or lamb curry with rice and bread. They don't have any side dishes.

I know they still have some veg in (at least onion) but really not a lot

@Boood I was going to wade in until you mentioned caggage. I like greens with my sausage and mash, onion gravy, spinach and cabbage. My Irish DH liked cabbage with any pork products. Green veg comes into season when parts of the country is still cold, especially if working outside, October to April. I like the root vegetables as part of the mash.

I wouldn't have a curry without mushrooms, spinach, peppers, onion.

YANBU. We had bangers and mash tonight (Richmond vege sausages) with carrots and peas

@Zwellers

Clues in the name. You don't have to includevegetables with everything. I wouldn't expect vegetables with my fish and chips or chicken curry and rice either.

I would expect some vegetables to be involved in the making of said chicken curry and would have it with a Dal or a simple vegetable dish like a rainbow chard sabzi or butternut squash with mint and cumin.

I will admit to fish and chips being vegetable free, unless you count the potatoes and ketchup. Mushy peas do horrible things to me.

@Deadringer

I never do veg with bangers and mash, i don't like gravy with it either.

DON'T LIKE GRAVY?!?!?!?!?!?

Blimey - I'd drink it as a beverage.

I love gravy with a roast, but not with lovely, creamy, buttery mash.

@IHaveBrilloHair

I'd never dream of eating peas, surely everyone knows they're just bags of sugar.

I want them even more now!

we usually have peas and sweet corn not touching each other but that is another thread

I have found my people.

@Spanielstail

* I wouldn't expect vegetables with my fish and chips or chicken curry and rice either.*

If I make fish and chips at home o do peas, broccoli and kale with it.

If I make a chicken curry if would have mushrooms, peppers, onions, usually cauliflower or sweet potato as well.

You are supposed to eat 7 fruit and vegetables a day.

KALE!

No human being eats kale with anything, surely?

It's cattle food. Like parsnips.

I eat kale. I remember when it was grown as cattle food only.

I eat the young soft leaves not those nasty bags of chopped old leaves.

I usually have them with lots of other mainly leafy vegetables

Parsnips - hmm, not keen.

Fish & Chips? Peas go fine
Pie and chips or mash? Peas
Sausage and mash? Peas
Family member or guest is very picky? There's a good chance they will eat peas.

I would respectfully suggest that sweetcorn is equally versatile in all of the above situations, NotCis

Kale is lovely if you freeze it and crush it a bit, can chuck it into anything straight from frozen, really useful to have in.

@KirstenBlest

I eat kale. I remember when it was grown as cattle food only.

I eat the young soft leaves not those nasty bags of chopped old leaves.

I usually have them with lots of other mainly leafy vegetables

Parsnips - hmm, not keen.

I bought a very expensive bag of "kalettes"* from Sainsbury to try, to see if the baby kale was any more acceptable to my tastebuds than the grown-up kale.

It wasn't.

*It was a bag full of sprout-sized kale shoots. Waste of two quid!

@Gwenhwyfar

" If I say we're having toad in the hole, fish pie, shepherds pie, moussaka, lasagne etc they all come with veg or salad. Never just served on their own. Just because you don't say the veg it would always be assumed here."

All of those things are meals in themselves.

So you don’t serve any veg on the side of a cottage pie or toad in the hole? I don’t think I could eat them without something green. If I said I was doing toad in the hole and then just served that with nothing else I’d get faces.

Kale has had an PR makeover in the past 10 years.

Used to be hamster food.

Roast kale leaves with a little bit of oil for about 4/5 minutes- they’re delicious!

I love roast kale with olive oil, salt and fresh rosemary. It goes all crispy.

I don’t think of sweet corn as a grown up veg, it’s so sweet and something I’d mostly give to kids as a gateway veg.

Kale is great in a curry. Also used in place of spinach in most things you’d put spinach in. Kale and ricotta cannelloni is a favourite here. I only really discovered I liked it when we kept getting it in the veg box.

Talk about first world problems! Wish this was all your had to be worried about right now! 🙄

I love sausages and mash! Kale in the mash (so colcannon really) and caramelised onions added to the gravy. I don’t add any extra sides of veg - have done in the past (carrots, peas or runner beans etc) and have found I didn’t enjoy it as much.