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?

Oh you must have roast potatoes. In fact you should have roasties AND mash! And Yorkshire puddings. And pigs in blankets at Christmas. Although P.I.B's are for life not just for Christmas 🤣

It's not a northern thing, you've just been surrounded by bad people

I feel like I haven't lived life now 😂

Not Northern - I think it's the Irish in me.

Had it all my life and I am mid-40s!

I eat a low carb diet but if someone gave me a roast dinner with no potatoes they'd be wearing it.

Sacrilege.

I very rarely eat many potatoes on my roast dinner, I still put them on my plate though, then give them to DP or the DC. Thems the rules.

@isthismylifenow at least you know your username is no longer apt as you're about to have your world turned upside down

For at least the 42 years I've been on this earth......

Without roast or mashed potatoes, it is just meat and a vegetable, not a roast.

Some mains require potatoes: mashed, roasted, boiled, baked, scalloped, fried, etc. Roast with gravy is one of them. Everyone knows this. Everyone.

Mmm my friend makes beautiful boiled floury potatoes but of course they have to be drowned in butter. She is of am older generation than I.

I would happily take roasties only. I can't fit in two types of potatoes so roasties all the way.

My husband hates roast dinners, and is vegetarian so I live in hope that someone invites me for a roast dinner somewhere. Anywhere.

Probably since Generation X started going to carveries and asking 'Where's the mash?'.

It's how most of us were weaned onto Sunday dinners as toddlers (usually with Stork margarine and semi skimmed milk to make the potatoes go further when we wouldn't eat the dry scraps of chicken) and then were given something vaguely resembling mash in ice cream scoops at Primary School (complete with something vaguely resembling a combination of bitumen and bisto to make it possible to consume them together with the dodgy minced animal product pie and greying beans).

It never reached DP's neck of the moors, although that could be because they were filled up with hundreds of roasties instead.

""Anyone who serves a 'roast' with no potatoes should be added to some kind of watch list.""

😁

WTAF?? LTB.

Carrots and parsnips are NOT a substitute for lovely buttery roast potatoes. I’d have to cut that sort of negativity out of my life immediately

The meat and vegetables serve as mere trimmings to the roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and gravy. A Sumday roast without the roast potatoes is sacrilegious.