A woman was so disgruntled by what her partner expected her to put on his roast dinner that she wanted to ignore him, and prove that his request was not ‘normal’
Every family has their own traditions when it comes to a roast dinner.
Whether you pile the mac and cheese high next to the roasties, prefer mashed potato, or truly believe that peas have a place on the plate, your choices will resonate with some and anger others. But one woman was so horrified by the dinner demand her partner was making that she asked others whether she’d be unreasonable to completely ignore him.
“Am I being unreasonable to think that boiled potatoes have no place on a roast dinner?” she asked Mumsnet, with a whopping 82% of people voting that she wasn’t unreasonable.
She explained that when she was cooking the roast for Christmas, her partner was “confused” why she “wasn’t cooking some boiled potatoes to go along with the roast potatoes”.
“Who does this?!” she asked, saying that she’d Googled it, and it seemed as though he was “wrong”. The woman said that her partner’s mum and grandma made boiled potatoes along with roasties, so he was used to it, but it was something bizarre to her, and she didn’t want to make an inferior potato when roast ones were on the plate already.
She asked people to vote, saying if they called her unreasonable, it meant “boiled potatoes and roast potatoes together on a roast dinner are normal.”
However, if they sided with her to say she wasn’t being unreasonable, it meant “roast potatoes are the king of potatoes on a roast and boring boiled potatoes are taking up space that could be more delicious roasties”.
Only 18% of people didn’t side with her, with one woman backing up her husband, writing: “We normally have two types of potatoes with a roast- roast potatoes of course and either mash or boiled potatoes or if in season jersey royals boiled. So I am with your husband on this one.”
However, others backed the fact that roast potatoes are miles nicer, penning: “I agree with you entirely. Why have inferior potatoes served with roast potatoes when simply proving more roasties is the obvious solution?” “No point wasting stomach and plate space with anything other than roast potatoes,” another chimed in.
“Does he also want sweet corn and broccoli?” somebody joked, and a Mumsnet user fumed: “Sweetcorn has no place on a roast dinner plate”.
Someone said they love “all kinds of potatoes” but believe you shouldn’t have “two types together” at dinner. They continued: “Some people put mash on roasts alongside the roast ones. Also weird. But then, I’m a purist and don’t think there should be Yorkshire puddings unless it’s beef.” “Have to disagree on Yorkshire puddings…,” a fan responded.
