to think that putting Yorkshire Puddings on your main plate with your meat is a completely heathen practise?

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It goes against everything that Yorkshire Puddings are FOR. Yorkshire puddings are a starter. They are supposed to fill you up so you don't eat so much meat. Eating them all together ruins the flow of the meal. It is so much more difficult to get meat and veg and gravy and puds out all at the same time - the timings of all the elements work perfectly and harmoniously when Yorkshires are served first. The joint sits resting and being eyeballed by hungry diners, the puds come straight to table from the hottest oven (not sharing a medium oven with the meat) The vegetables go on as you sit for the puds. Trying to serve up main course as everyone else sits for melon or some inferior starters that does not match the main meal is rubbish.

Why oh why does everyone insist on having them on the same plate? There's barely room! Puds are HUGE if you make them right. A shallow bowl with a huge pud and very good gravy - heaven. Follow with meat and veg. It is civilised. Don't get me started on carveries

AIBU?

you are being a bit sad

OH EVERYONE eats them at the same time

Yabvvvu as I now NEED yorkshire puddings and loads of gravy. [drool]

This will make you howl in anger then.

My mother does Yorkshires(Aunt Bessie) to go with chicken dinners.
She also serves them on the same plate.

i think NB is living in a workhouse in 1841

Absolutely Unreasonable I'm veggie, I need the yorkshires to fill me up.........and they are my favourite thing ever and are always the last thing I eat on the plate, so I can savour them.

we have yorkshires and chicken

snobs!

my parents are both Yorkshire types
they SENISBLY realise that we dont NEED to have them as a starters as we are not all on teh breadline.

we have them with EVERY roast meal
and cheese with fruit cake

YABu and ridiculous

I love yorkies with my main meal.

Spare ones are for stuffing your already full self with with the gravy once you have finished your main meal.

Honestly, just cos it's tradition does not make it right!

Leave the starters they only leave less room for the really good stuff (i.e. the roast).

Though possibly I have just proved that I am completely heathen and uncivilised in which case YANBU.

very easily

I don't understand. They only take 4 mins from freezer to plate. What's with this timing thing?

No no no youve got it all wrong... You need a giant yorkshire pud (made by my mum) which is then cut in half, then you must pile in some meat, some potato, add a bit of gravy and fold. Eat like a sandwich. Absolute heaven and imo the most civilised way to eat a Sunday roast.

That's an evolving menu for you.

Don't think it's been considered a starter for ages by the masses.

sorry!

Yorkshire puddings were invented by thrify farmers wives. "Them as eats t'most puddin' gets t'most meat"

Of course, fill up on the pudding and save on the meat. V sensible.

You are not unreasonable at all.

People who bung them on the same plate are doing it WRONG!!!

YABU, yorkshire puddings are clearly designed to be eaten either full of gravy or full of golden syrup.
Not on their own, bleurgh

YABU. Sorry.

Even better is the Christmas yorkshire sandwich. Beef and turkey with potato, stuffing and those little sausages wrapped in bacon...

Fuck im so hungry. Can people stop posting about food. It snot fair!

actually, a yorkshire pudding with jam on it is bloody delicious.

What about suet puddn? Nobody does that any more

Suet pudding needs to be steamed though- they are delicious, but I have never had good results with steamed puds.

Definitely need to be eaten first!

"practice" with a "c" not "s" when used as a noun. Sorry, I know, but I can't help myself.

I do my puds whilst the joint is resting - they only take 10 minutes with the oven turned up, whilst the potatoes are also crisping up.

Thankyou Hecate

It's about a 60-40 split round these parts (pretty traditional Yorkshire where I am, aye) I am in the dwindling 40% minority that does it right. It's not about being on the breadline it's about savouring your food, having smaller portions over longer periods, digesting properly, cooking properly, taking a nice long while to sit with the family over several hours and several courses of fabness and gluttony.

I guess there is no hope for the rest of the country by the above posts. I may start a campaign

My lovely dh made me yorkshire puddings for an evening snack the other day . (He is quite proud as only just learnt how to make them from scratch).

Normality- my dsis' df is a proper yorkshireman- he loves his puds with his main meal. Comes of being a farmer with a big dairy herd to sort out- he barely has time to sit down for dinner sometimes.

God I am SO with the OP

anyone who disagrees with the whole 'Italians don't drink cappuccino at mealtimes, anyone who does is a pleb' get shot down in middle class flames

But Yorkshire pudding tradition is somehow unimportant