Please explain double potatoes to me! [grin]

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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?

your granny's carrots sound delicious @steppemum 😋

The mash is a working class/lower income thing because you has a single oven and no space for enough roasties. So you do mash on the hob.

you ready for this you might need a seat !😀

my Gran used to make roast potatoes in a chip pan!

Nope, she made fried potatoes in a chip pan.

Edited to add... my MIL did this too... they were nice enough but were not roast potatoes.!

Or.... serving roast potatoes as part of 'the trimmings' and potatoes prepared in different ways along side the other vegetables isn't related to class at all but rather the ratio of space to diners.
I serve roast potatoes alone with a midweek roast for up to 4 people, but then I often only offer 2 other vegetables midweek too.
For a Sunday Roast or if we have guests I always serve more choices. My mother did the same. I have 2 ovens (and grew up with a large aga) but have never managed to roast enough potatoes for everyone to have more than a couple each if there is a table full of people.
If one serves only roast potatoes at Christmas for example, how does it work logistically? Does this only apply if you cook for less than 6 people? Or are the stuffings/pigs in blankets, roasted root vegetables , ham etc etc etc left out? I know some people have Yorkshire pudding with their turkey. Where does that cook if you have an oven full of potatoes?

Yes it’s weird.

Mash potatoes don’t belong in a roast, the clue is in the name.

Roast potatoes don’t belong in sausage and mash. Ditto.

Absolutely always mash and roast here. Have done roasties only a couple of times and seriously missed the potato creaminess each time. We always have another mash veg too, so it's not the mash but def the potato.

Perhaps controversially, I've never understood the love for Yorkshire pudding. I mean it's fine, but I'd choose mash over yorkies given the choice. (I'm Irish so yorkies wouldn't be common here.) But surely both fits the same def of double carbs/cheap filling carbs.

In a roast we always have mash and roast potatoes.

The texture is different, it’s a different mouthful

For lots of people just precook one tray of potatoes, then you reheat them while the second tray goes out. hot oven they crisp up fine.

Pigs in blankets go in the warming oven.

I don’t do ham on Christmas Day (isn’t that an Irish thing?) only for Boxing Day.

Only do parsnips in the oven. Carrots (butter and cumin), sprouts (cream and bacon) on top.

People who cook Yorkshires with Turkey.. there’s nothing you can do for them. Too far gone.

Lasagna with chips and garlic bread is surely the only way.

I thought roast potatoes plus mash was a scouse thing. Also peas. For a roast dinner?
All the nope. Not how I was brought up

For the double carbers a delicacy I came to love on Germany... spaghetti bolognese pizza. Yes, spaghetti as a pizza topping. It shouldn't work... but it does.

Somewhere near me does a mac and cheese pizza and it's so good @PuttingDownRoots

I would happily have triple potatoes: roast, mashed and boiled. Unfortunately I am too lazy to cook three kinds of potatoes for one meal.

People who cook Yorkshires with Turkey.. there’s nothing you can do for them. Too far gone

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@ODFOx I didn't come up with this, grace dent discusses it quite often! It's like the toilet seat covers/mats mn find abhorrent - they have a specific function in a low income home and many middle class people are mystified and sneer.

OFF TOPIC - what do the toilet seat covers/mats have a function for?

Agh please don't mash up your food in front of other people!

??? it is fine to mash your roast potato on your plate. Never heard of not mashing food in front of others.

On the other hand, how to ruin a good roast potato is to smoosh it so that the lovely crispy edge is all mashed up. sacriledge!😁

This reminds me of Monica's 3 types of potatoes for Thanksgiving, only to get burnt!

"Potatoes are ruined! Potatoes are ruined! Potatoes are ruined!"

Anyway, I agree with you op. Mash Potatoes and roast potatoes don't go in the same meal, but maybe that's just because I think it's too much work.

In Scotland I discovered the macaroni cheese pie. I had it with potato wedges. That was a good day!

Also just to add lasagne and chips is actually brilliant. I'm veggie, so the lasagne filling is roasted aubergines, courgettes, peppers, all in a tomato-y sauce, and that with the cheese sauce with chips is really good... plus there is not enough pasta in a lasagne to not need a second carb.

I also make two types of soup which have little pasta shapes in, and we have these with bread.

Plus people don't seem to think its' weird to have a hamburger (bread) with fries. Or if you're having breakfast you can have hash browns but also toast.

I think what I've learnt here is that I really like carbs.

I would always go roast potatoes with a roast though... roast potatoes are just so good. I made some weirdly extra delicious ones at the weekend... not sure what I did. I used quite a lot of butter, but I also slightly accidentally over-cooked the butter (it went brown with little black flecks in) before I put the potatoes in... maybe that was why?

See, in our house mash is king! Everyone eats mash (done properly, with butter and cream), but only a couple of us rake roasties (although I make them, and make them well!!)
DH used to say he married me for my mash
Irish descent, unashamedly love my spuds!
Laughing at people baulking at double carbs, can only assume you've never had a macdonalds meal (chips and burger bun)? It's not exactly unknown

@ThePlatypusAlwaysTriumphs my teenager would be horrified if he didn't get mash. We have mash & roast too.

@User1775 The mash is a working class/lower income thing because you has a single oven and no space for enough roasties. So you do mash on the hob.

I think you should write to some agency who do demographics etc and let them know

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