To think it's not a Roast Dinner if there are no potatoes of any form!

[Soulesssummer]

Prompted by a comment I've just seen about a roast dinner being just meat and veg as there are already enough carbs in the carrots and parsnips 😫

I would have a mini breakdown if I was served that. When will this madness end?

Growing up, we always had boiled and roast pots with dinner on a Sunday. No idea what the thinking was behind that, never seen it anywhere else. Mind you, your plain boiled potato is a pretty rare beast these days (and rightly so, probably).
Anyway, my parent’s weird ways haven't afflicted me in adulthood and I only ever do roasties. Even new potatoes feels like a cop out.

I agree.

I honestly think anyone who says they don’t have potatoes with a roast is just lying.

If they are lying or they don’t include them in a roast then they’re doing it for attention and should be ignored.
(I do feel sorry for their DP and DC if this is the case).

Oh it’s the potatoes aren’t a vegetable brigade 🙄

It’s a fucking vegetable.

I wouldn’t mind if they were all whippet thin but the ones I have worked with haven’t been because biscuits are definitely on the menu.

😱🫢🫢😂

My friend’s Jamaican and their family roasts consist of roast potatoes, mash potatoes, rice, plantains and yorkshires - it’s literally carb heaven.

Not 1 of them are overweight.

A roast is roast meat, roast potatoes, a veg and gravy, without those it’s not a roast. More veggies can be, and usually are, added.

Roast, mash AND croquettes but I'm Irish so it's allowed.

I’d be quite happy if my roast dinner was just a plate of roast potatoes drowning in gravy and nothing else

I never cook a roast, but if I have one out, I give the potatoes to dh. Not a fan of potatoes except new ones. Veggies on the other hand.....

In my eyes, potatoes are the worst part of a Sunday dinner so I'm with your friend. I find them all tasteless.
Just love going abroad and not being served potatoes everywhere.

On mumsnet usually eating two salad leaves a day and making a chicken last a year.

Ha! I do a weekly roast dinner with everything but roast potatoes as my young son won't eat them and I can't be bothered to make for myself. We do have 3 or 4 veg, stuffing and yorkshires though. I'm so used to it now that I don't miss them!

I think dh would divorce me and ds would probably leave with him if I didn't include roasties and mash in a roast...

Veg:
Potato's (roast and mash)
Carrots (both sliced and mashed with suede)
Broccoli and cauliflower (cooked in a cheese sauce)
Peas and sweetcorn
Parsnips roasted
Cabbage and leek

Yorkshire puds

Meat of choice, but don't forget the sauces 🤣🤣🤣

And almost as important as the potatoes a good thick gravy!

Left over roasties are a myth. I have never seen one, never eaten one, and never reheated one......no matter how many potatoes we do, they all get eaten.

Good lord, it's not a roast unless it has roast potatoes AND mashed potatoes. It's one of the things I hate about eating a roast out in a restaurant or at a friends house, never any mash and quite often a new potato on my plate. I want none of that!

Butter? That's a new one on me. Where does the butter go?

Ha! My roast chicken is in the oven. I've covered it in cumin paprika garlic and lemon and having it with jasmine rice and roasted carrots and broccoli and maybe flat breads..

We cut back on carbs last year and lost a lot of weight on the Fast 800. Roast potatoes were a casualty of that and were sorely missed.

Now we have them occasionally and thoroughly enjoy them, but we don't have them with every roast dinner. I don't substitute with beetroot though. The veg tends to be leafy greens and broccoli rather than carrots and parsnips.

But if I was inviting anyone over, there would definitely be roast potatoes.

@Awumminnscotland that is a mixture of cuisines

Is this some sort of sick joke?

I don't like potato. Is every roast dinner I've ever had not a real roast? 🤔

Roast potatoes are essential for a roast in a restaurant or serving to guests, what you choose to cook for just yourself is different, I often cook roast sweet potatoes, parsnips, beetroot and carrots rather than normal potatoes but for guests I always do a tray of normal roasties too

Or incarcerated

Surely you mean EX friend