Boiled potatoes have no place on a roast dinner!

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My DP was confused as to why I wasn’t cooking some boiled potatoes to go along with the roast potatoes on our Christmas dinner.

Who does this?! He maintains that it is a thing - his DM and DGM did them so he thinks that everyone has both roast potatoes and boiled potatoes on a roast. Google suggests he is wrong.

What do the wise people of MN think?

YABU = yes boiled potatoes and roast potatoes together on a roast dinner are normal.

YANBU = roast potatoes are the king of potatoes on a roast and boring boiled potatoes are taking up space that could be more delicious roasties!

Leave the country immediately for your own safety.

Yanbu. Boiled potatoes have no place on any dinner.

As a child we would be given mash or boiled and then each person would be offered a roast or too. They were never the main potato. Most restaurants and pubs at that time would also just offerer a couple of potatoes. This was 70's though. I only do roast myself as that's what we prefer.

I find this very odd - different folk like different things, and while I'd prefer roasties, it's up to him what he enjoys.

Not if you're the one cooking it

You are all wrong and should be thoroughly ashamed of yourselves.

Mash, cauliflower cheese, sweetcorn, bread sauce amongst other abominations!

What's wrong with you people 😁.

Boiled potatoes are a bit meh unless they’re new potatoes and don’t really deserve plate space at all.
I did do mash as well as roast potatoes because my dgc do not eat roast potatoes. Yes you read that correctly. The dgc (tweens and teens not toddlers) do not eat roast potatoes. Weirdos but I love them.

Boiled potatoes have no place anywhere. DH is from the Midlands and has Irish parents and his normal growing up roast always included boiled potatoes. Mine didn't.

Doesn't matter what potato you use, they are dry and tasteless. You'll never convince me otherwise 😉

My parents used to do mash, roast and new boiled potatoes with roasts. We dropped mash as no one was that keen on it once DC was older.

I think generally this is a tradition in larger families because you need space for good roast potatoes and there simply isn't enough. Mash works better than boiled imho but in our house it's just roasties

My dad grew up in South Africa and it was (apparently?) traditional to have rice with a roast. As it was also in addition to roasties, my mum (Irish) had no objection, and I quite like it myself. However, the face DH pulled when I even suggested it made me think again. As he has given up sweetcorn (blee) on a roast for my sake, I'm happy to lose the rice. More room for roasties!

Why on earth someone would waste stomach and plate space on a boiled potato with a Christmas dinner is beyond me. Never heard of such a thing.
I have heard of mash, though as much as I love mash I’d never add it to a roast.
Yorkshires are a must though, no matter what meat you have.

He misunderstood. His family did it because someone in their family couldn’t/didnt eat roast potatoes for taste/ health reasons and he thought it’s a thing. It’s not. It’s like vegetarian families don’t serve turkey.

At what point does someone choose a boiled potato over another roastie?! I'd never pick a a boiled potato over a lovely, crispy and fluffy roastie. And I don't mind boiled potatoes, but they are the poor relation when they're beside a roast potato.

I'm not a big fan of boiled (or steamed) potatoes, they're ok but I'd rather have mash and/or roasties (or fried tbh!) any day. However my DGM and my DM, and my MIL, both have always done new potatoes boiled or in the steamer as part of their xmas day dinners so I did think this was normal!

We occasionally had a few boiled potatoes with a roast dinner when I was growing up. It wasn’t an everyday week thing though.

I’m fussy about boiled potatoes and only like them if the skin has been left on. Usually only eat boiled potatoes when Jersey Royals are in season these days - that variety of spud is delicious.

One of my favourites from the last few years to have for a Christmas Day lunch/dinner on the subject of potatoes though - hasselback potatoes with bacon! https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/hasselbackbacon61171
Yum!

My mum was nominally Irish but grew up in the Midlands. She'd put boiled spuds with everything when we were young (plus a lake of gravy), but a Sunday roast was inviolate.

I just remembered to humour a horrid relative we used to have LEO dried peas with a roast dinner. They were horrible.

When my Nan was alive we had to get a tin of marrow fat peas in when she came for Sunday lunch and Christmas and jar of red cabbage.

YANBU. Likewise,mashed potato has no place in a roast dinner.

My DH insists on mashed potatoes as well as roast. I make some but don’t eat them obvs.

He is a heathen and I should LTB.

Edit: <reads thread> oh I do Yorkshires tho. I did cauli cheese too this year but there weren’t many takers.

IMPORTANT I always do loads and loads of roasties. There were enough to serve everyone on leftover-meal day (27 Dec) as well.

No! Boiled potatoes are sad! You do mash and roasties, that's the rule 😅

My DH wants boiled potatoes too.
Me, personally, I am not pro having any other potatoe with the lovely and yummy roasties. But I cook the boiled ones for him.

I think your dh parents were Irish
I remember going to his parents one Christmas Day .. plain spuds

nothing else offered (other than meat and veg)

dh said it was one of the best dinners he ever had