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?

I'm not averse to lasagne and chips - though I prefer it with Tuscan potatoes (new potatoes cooked in the oven in olive oil, seasalt flakes and rosemary).

I'll start by saying I make excellent roast potatoes... my kids sometimes even come home just for Sunday lunch from uni... 90 miles or so.

But... I have NEVER made roasties without making mash.

I use maris piper, so they have a tendency to fall apart if overdone, and I parboil them... so ALWAYS do about 1.5 times the amount I need, we have plenty of roasties and the overdone ones get mashed. Mash gets kept warm and served in a bowl on the table...

then any left gets put on top of a cottage pie, or fried, or bubble and squeaked, or made into potato cakes, or, if only a little, stirred into "leftovers" soup to thicken it. I have nooooooo issues with mash being eaten or not as it will be used next day anyhow

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This has to be the best “Well I’VE never seen it; therefore it can’t be real” moment yet.

I would always make mash and roast potatoes with a roast, although I prefer mash. I am completely fine with “double carb” - although I was surprised when, on holiday in the Canaries recently, my friends were served potatoes and rice with their steaks. I don’t eat meat, but I think if I did, I’d have been hankering for some veg on that plate.

Yeah, I don’t get the double-carb thing — it means you don’t appreciate either of them properly. I like either pizza or chips with a very cold, crunchy green salad. Or lasagne with salad. I don’t get lasagne with garlic bread.

@TygerPassant I used to work in a country pub/ restaurant at uni. Lasagne portions themselves were enormous, then served with chips, salad (mainly coleslaw) and 1 slice of garlic bread!

lasagne and chips = hangover

to me at least!

Always had both growing up and I've always done it.. my daughters / sisters etc do it.
Everyone is different.
Some people have sweet corn on their roast dinners but we would think that's just strange .
Some have Yorkshire puddings for a starter.. ( we did has kids).

Mmmmmm.... refried roast potatoes for breakfast..... OMG. I only had roast potatoes last night - now I want them again!

I've never understood and will never understand potatoes.

Why, when you could have something that actually tastes of something, like butternut, sweet potato, or just about any veg on the planet?

I dutifully make them for my family, who devour them, but I just don't get the love.

I love pizza and chips and pasta and garlic bread.

MIL often serves a roast with mash and roasties...lovely but it means less roasties...so I just do roasties.

Fish cake and chips is probably also double potato.

When you go to a carvery they usually have mash.. roasties.. new potatoes and sometimes hassle backs.

Well, that would set you up for the day! Or the week!

@CatherinedeBourgh, but they take flavour beautifully — look at all those gorgeous Indian dishes using potato! DH makes an insanely good Aloo Chaat…

Growing up (1970/80's) we always had mash & roast potatoes on our roast dinner. I don't tend to do it now, very occasionally I might.

Always mash and roast on a Sunday dinner.

Do you think it is a regional thing? I am Northern and it seems to be the norm here.

we need more details please

did you have a traumatic experience with potatoes at a young age perhaps? maybe a memory you suppressed?

Roast, mash, champ, new potatoes and, most randomly of all, potato rosti?! At the time I was baffled but it's actually not out of the norm over here, it turns out!

...Unfortunately I can take or leave all kinds of potato, which hasn't served me well living in NI.

♡♡ does he have any more sons looking for wives? asking for a friend....

people never want what they have... always the way

Hahah sadly not, and unfortunately my lovely DH is no longer with us either (not as a result of quintuple potato, I should add!).

I cook for FIL more often nowadays and restrict him to just two carbs in the one meal, which he's not best pleased about!

sorry to hear about your DH... didn't mean to make an insensitive comment.
just two carbs must be a massive step down. bless him.

Not at all, it's nice getting to chat about him! He and FIL (and my nephew and BIL) were big fans of a carvery thanks to the options for multiple carbs and multiple meats, heavenly. Whereas I think a roast dinner is about the most boring meal you can get!

@SpaceOP me and my sister were talking about this a couple of weeks ago. As far as I'm concerned if I'm having roasters, I'm not Al's having mash thereby meanig I have less roast potatoes. 1 potato style per dinner as far as I'm concerned 😁

DM would do double potato. Roast sides and mash.