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!

Yorkshire lass here.

Yorkshire pudding and gravy as a starter, a slice of one of the big proper YPs.

Then small one on the side with the roast. Roast and mashed potatoes. Carrots mashed with swede but also sliced carrots.

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We never have plain boiled potatoes ever.
Unless they’re new potatoes

We have roast and dauphinois potatoes

I had a landlord once whose mash potato was sublime, he'd do a Sunday lunch for his lodgers every now and then and we'd ask for mash and roasties. Oh God he was a good cook.

I'm in my 50s and my mum would have 2( types of potato with a roast, either dry mash or floury spuds. She was Scottish and I think it might have been a way of making things go further. My MIL does the same.

I just do roasties but think there is a place for an unroasted spud....

We used to have them at most meals when I was growing up. Though I haven't had a plain boiled potato that wasn't a new one in years. I grow my own and they are fabulous straight out of the ground.

I’ve only seen this in Ireland where the meal may also include mash!

My Irish granny was a fabulous cook used to feeding hoards of hungry mouths. A roast would have roast potatoes that she dished up, to stop the men from grabbing them all. She would then plonk a massive saucepan of well drained un peeled potatoes on the table. The men and boys would stick their forks in a spud, peel and scoff it.

My Welsh Valleys MIL had seven mouths to feed. She issued the roast potatoes and did a mountain of plain peeled and boiled spuds. It was the only way she could fill the family up.

I would have been one of the 18% in the poll. Sometimes depending on the meat, prefer boiled potatoes which I can then mash if wished.