Please explain double potatoes to me! [grin]

[SpaceOP]

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE potatoes. I can even see the appeal of a stew, with potatoes, served on rice...

But what's with the roast potato AND mashed potato in one meal thing? I am on a food group and I quite often see this when people post their Sunday roasts - roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, veggies, meat, gravy etc.

If I had AIBU voting it would be:

IABU to think ONE kind of potato is enough for any meal?

Or have I just completely missed one of the great joys of anyone's foodie life?

Our local does a lovely Sunday roast dinner and you get roast potatoes and a tiny bit of mash. The food is quite posh in there.

My Nan (not Irish!) used to do triple potatoes for Sunday Dinner - roast, mash and boiled! I'm a roastie person - the other two have their place, but not in the same place!

Dd's friends like to get 2 sides when they go to Nandos - mash and fries!

Mash doesn't go with a roast... boiled potatoes, roast potatoes, fried potatoes, dauphinose... but not mash.

Mash is a fill you up weekday potato.

I hate mash so no way am I giving up roast potato space on my plate for that mush

I sometimes do both if I've gotten carried away and peeled to many potatoes or if there is potatoes left from the last bag that need using up.

Double potatoes are a thing of beauty!

I recall my utter sadness watching SIL making 'mashed' potates and she didn't dry them or add milk and butter 😢- they looked so miserable.

DH was somewhat perplexed when he was first served them but now even loves champ.

When i was at boarding school i used to spend some weekends with an aunt and uncle. Aunt was Irish and used to do both roast potatoes and mashed potatoes with Sunday lunch. I rather liked them.
I also recall having roast spuds plus buttered new potatoes in the same meal.
Don't knock it till you've tried it.
(Staying with DH's Irish family in Ireland, for dinner you got a large plate totally covered rim to rim with buttered boiled potaotes, then topped with meat and other veg. Cabbage. Then gravy. What's not to like? )

so she just smooshes up pototoes? That sounds truly awful and very very sad.

with a couple of fried eggs and sausages on the side ofc

I'm sorry that you have clearly not experienced proper mashed potatoes. have you tried aligot?

I'm a purist, so no. But no judgement here... I can totally see the appeal! I like to leave more tummy space for the potato though!

I've eaten proper mashed potato. Made by all sorts of people, even tried it in a michelin star restaurant. I'm just not a mash fan.

’half and half’ rice and chips with curry is a completely normal thing locally.

I’m not much of a potato fan so give them a miss (even the roasties).

for the potato lovers on this thread.... I reccommend bengali style mashed potatoes - potatoes mashed with finely chopped shallots, green chillies and ghee or butter or Bangladeshi mustard oil (has to be the real stuff, just use ghee or butter if no Bangladeshi grocers near you). NO MILK

this mashed potato is best eaten with rice, daal, salad and a Bangladeshi omelette (eggs whisked with chopped shallots and green chillies, NO MILK).

Trust me, it is a revelation. highly addictive. drooling just thinking of it. you can also mix in some grated cheese and use that mix to make a grilled potato/cheese sandwich.

Toby Carvery does mash and roast potatoes, and I am right there for that. I wouldn't make them both myself, but I am happy to eat them both with a roast if they are offered. Different textures, different role to play in the meal.

I have been served baked potato with a side order of crisps in cafes in the past and that is where I draw the double potato line.

Who the hell serves stew on a bed of rice??

Anyway, I'm Irish, so I respect the spuds.

Potatoes cooked and served differently, taste different. I can certainly eat numerous styles of potatoes in one meal.

Yabvvvvvvu, roast taste completely different. Xmas here involves the works, mash, dauphine, hassleback, roast, croquet. Then every vegetable known to mankind!

Just keep those yorkies away from me, I have yet to find the joy. The English "boy" we are late 40s, friend keeps trying to sell them to me 😜

Yep Irish and proud.

stroganoff is always served with rice and that's basically a stew

So is chilli. And most curries are stews.

The stroganoff itself doesn't have potatoes in it though. The OP was referring to a stew which is made with potatoes.

true

Exactly that; it was tragic.

First dinner my Northern Irish FIL ever made me had five types of potato. 😂

Quote fail - that was to @SpaceOP