Boiled potatoes have no place on a roast dinner!

[BoiledOrRoastPotatoes]

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!

Not bland as part of the roast dinner. I don't sit down to two sorts of spud and gravy as a meal. And potatoes aren't bland unless they are rubbish to start with or poorly cooked or both.

Well I am doing a roast lamb dinner today- just prepped it and having roasties and baby new potatoes with skins on the I will toss in a minted butter before serving- carrots and turnip, green beans lashing of gravy and mint sauce.

Sorry, I do realise that, I was being flippant 😳i should reread my posts for context!

I do appreciate that with meat and veg, lots of people love potatoes. To my family they are very important.

Boiled potatoes have no place anywhere!

I usually do some potato croquettes with the roast for Christmas dinner. Dh only likes potatoes roast or chipped. I like all ways of doing them. Tbh good floury boiled potatoes with butter and salt are delicious. If you have a roast dinner out you will get mash along with your roasts.

I've never understood why people put mash on roast, but boiled potatoes is even weirder

I’ve never encountered mash with a roast eaten out in any pub I’ve ever been in. And as a roast is around £25 /£30 a head nowadays I’d feel short changed if I did! Potato croquets definitely have a palace, just not with a roast :)

It's for people with one oven and not enough space to do 2 trays of roast potatoes. The hob can be for the boiled/mash to bulk out.

I love plain boiled spuds with a roast (inc roast spuds).
I'm with your DH on this one.

My DP wanted boiled potatoes with his Xmas dinner when we first got together. Careful training has cured him of that particular abomination. Roasties all the way for us now.

When I was cooking Christmas Dinner for 8 , I put a pack of new potatoes ( or baby potatoes ) onto steam as an added extra .As you can never have enough roast potatoes and they run out . But my DParents wouldn;t want too many of them.
My DD loved them and insists they are part of the roast dinner .

My DS insists on Yorkshire Puddings ( home cooked ones ) so you can see what I;m dealing with here !

DH does, I don't like any potatoes though

Local gastro pub: Roasts and sweet potato mash
Other local pub: Roasts, mash, everything served inside a giant Yorkshire
MIL: Roasts, mash, pack of baby new potatoes with butter/mint
DM: Roasts, croquettes, Duchesse potatoes, dauphinois
Us: Roasts, dauphinois

We have both. I prefer boiled new potatoes to roast. We are all different.
I would not have cauliflower cheese with a roast as I don't want cheese sauce and gravy on my plate but lots of people love it. I don't like pigs in blankets either, I would rather have more meat than eat greasy, processed sausage and bacon....each to their own!

Boiled potatoes have no place anywhere. Of all the amazing things you can do with the humble spud why would you stick to the most basic option?

So he made jacket potato instead

My mil does this, but claims it's mostly for making bubble and squeak the next day with the other leftover veg. My family just have roasties.

To be fair, baby boiled have their place. But it isn't the season for them now.

Yanbu

Insane!

My Grandma used to do boiled ,roast and mash...

I remember that this was something I'd come across as a child, particularly if we were dining out for Sunday lunch. Not seen it in years though except at the odd carvery

@BoiledOrRoastPotatoes is this only the first roast dinner you have had together?

If his DM just used to do a few roasties around the joint she probably would have needed to do extra spuds boiled or mashed to bulk the meal up.

Personally I love mash with roast potato on the same fork, creamy and crunchy heaven

Yes first one. We are normally busy with hobbies at the weekends so rarely have time for a Sunday lunch and when we do it’s out at a restaurant with said hobbies. I have never noticed him select a boiled potato from a self serve carvery (or noticed there have been any available at any of them).

Boiled potatoes should definitely not be on a roast dinner . I don't like them anywhere though so I maybe biased