And the quality of the cut, was it on sale, fancy grocery store or discount store, where in the country you live can also make a difference.

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No. Price per pound is all that matters. Quality should be revealed, but where you live makes no impact. Who cares if you shop at a boutique store, ground beef is ground beef. A choice strip steak is a choice strip steak. All should be measured in price per pound, not. How many meals one random person can get get out of it.

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567Anonymous@reddit

I bought an 8lb beef brisket for some company we were having last weekend. Big, and not cheap. But five years ago it would have cost around $44…. It was $88.

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LoudSheepherder5391@reddit

Yeah, 4 years ago I did a cookout, and smoked 3 brisket. I spent about $100.

Our grocery store use to do “buy one get one” sales on chuck roast. It would be $2 to $2.50 a pound and we use to buy them and grind them for burger because it was cheaper than ground beef.

Roast coukd describe pork, or lamb, too, or roast chicken (though you'd probably just say Winner Winner Chicken Dinner).

I want to try roasting some ostrich. I've heard it can be good.

For whatever reason, in the USA we rarely eat horse.

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Spirited_Ingenuity89@reddit

For whatever reason, in the USA we rarely eat horse.

What I would say OP is that it’s very common for there to be a larger or defined Sunday meal, however due to the diversity of nationalities represented in the states these meals come to life in a million ways. One simple example would be meatballs and pasta. I know number of families with Italian heritage where “Sunday gravy” (pasta sauce) is a comparable concept to a roast dinner in the UK.

source: Brit living in the states.

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RectorAequus@reddit

I'd forgotten about Sunday gravy! I haven't done that in a hot minute.

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Alone_Bet_1108@reddit

The British don't tend to have pot roast. They don't enclose meat in a sealed pot but instead just open-roast beef, chicken, lamb, pork or game to serve with vegetables (roast parsnips or carrots, Brussels, peas, cabbage etc), roast potatoes, Yorkshire pudding ( beef), apple sauce (pork), mint sauce (lamb), sage and onion stuffing (chicken or turkey), or bread sauce. Sometimes there'll be cauliflower cheese. There is always gravy.

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Equal_Veterinarian22@reddit

A British "roast" is usually a joint of meat baked in the oven (not actually spit roasted) on a rack in a roasting tray which will collect the juices, which may then be used to make gravy. It is definitely not the same as a pot roast.

Similarly "roast" potatoes are actually just peeled, quartered and baked in a hot oven in fat.

Yeah this is what my mother served us as kids 5 nights of the week. Details tended toward German cuisine, because that's what she was raised on, but this was the basic template.

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mewalrus2@reddit

I love pot roast, with beef chuck.

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Gooners-Anonymous@reddit

pot roast! very common.

The specific dish called “pot roast” by Americans dates back the New England colonies in the 1700s which was cooked in a covered pot or what is frequently called a “Dutch oven” but also covered casseroles. In the original version of Yankee Pot Roast it was usually a version of New England “boiled dinner” cooked in a covered pot over a wood fire/hot coals using braising of a cheep cut of meet like a shoulder, rump, or top loin cut, root vegetables, onions. In its original the braising liquid was usually a beef stock which was thickened into a gravy after the meat and veg was cooked.

In its original form the closest thing to an oven people had in modest homes was a covered iron pot.

So the “pot roast” became a simple family meal cooked in one pot.

The cooking technique is obviously shared across many nations and is very common to Germany, France, the Netherlands and the UK (and numerous other countries). But those traditions had an obvious early impact on the NE colonies in North America.

That basic recipe has gone through many evolutions to sometimes include wine or beer as part of the braising liquid. Most Americans these days would just call it “pot roast”.

Humans have been braising meat in covered pots for a long time all over the world.

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AlexisRosesHands@reddit

It’s basically Boeuf Bourguignon without the flavor.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

If the Boeuf Bourguignon is braised vs. stewed; I've seen it both ways.

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Grendal54@reddit

Probably means some type of cut of beef, like a chuck roast or rump roast braised in stock or broth until tender, usually includes some vegetables cooked with it like potatoes, onions, carrots, celery, or other root vegetables. That is what comes to mind when I think of pot roasts.

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TacitusJones@reddit

Based on how you described that, that's a staple when I can't be bothered to figure out a more complicated meal. Some protein, some veg, some carb

What kinds of potatoes are normally in a British roast? We raised mostly russets which are slower cooking and more starchy than a yellow or white. If you tried to make what I think of as a roast with a yellow potato you would end up with mush.

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dgillz@reddit

We have russet potatoes here too.

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Now I want a Chicago beef and its 8:30am and I'm not in Chicago.

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Stan_Deviant@reddit

My deepest sympathies. This is from a place on the East Coast but one of the owners is from Chicago. Do I dare say "scratch made giardiniera" or mention we also make deep friend cheese curds that you can dip in au jus when you are trying to get through a shift (or if you are a regular we like)?

Can you grab Ethiopian breakfast with tibs to scratch the itch? Can you get on the Acela and just come to DC for the weekend? We still have Cherry Blossoms!

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BeeSuspicious3493@reddit

That sounds amazing. Though even with years in Chicago I never really came around to giardiniera.

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Stan_Deviant@reddit

But you like it on your beefs?

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BeeSuspicious3493@reddit

Nope. Sweet and wet for me.

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Stan_Deviant@reddit

Gasp.

Stan_Deviant@reddit

To me it is all in the same pan from the get go otherwise it isn't a roast. Is there a definition of this idea?

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LJ161@reddit

If youre talking about an american roast then you're probably spot on but OP is speaking about weather you do roasts like the British roast dinner. The roast potatoes are the 2nd main event so I would never put them in with the meat cause they wouldnt come out right. Delicious but not for a proper roast dinner.

I can’t speak for OP in Australia, but in Britain that would not be the standard roast (but we also do that).

Generally the bits are all roasted separately and the meat isn’t roasted particularly low or slow.

Growing up on Sundays as a family, we had beef roast (generally a cheap cut like rump roast cooked into oblivion) with mashed potatoes, salad (always with a sweet vinegar based homemade dressing), and a vegetable boiled into oblivion like broccoli.

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danjoski@reddit

Your problem is “proper” roast. America is too big of a country to have a uniform concept like this. We do roasts but not as widely as elsewhere and with more variation.

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contrarianaquarian@reddit

True, and certain cuts of meat are very regional, like the central California tri-tip.

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burndownthe_forest@reddit

Made a pork roast with bread dumplings last weekend. Make a roast most weeks.

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Insomniac_80@reddit

Bread dumplings?

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burndownthe_forest@reddit

Yeah take some old, stale bread and cut it up into 1 inch chunks (I buy new white bread, cut into chunks and leave out for an hour), mix some milk and eggs, mix some flour and salt, add the wet to the dry, add the stale bread, mix that into a dough (sticky asf but holds a shape), form little logs about 3 in in diameter about 6 in long, put them in salted, boiling water for like 20 minutes (flip once, the inside should look doughy with some air pockets when done), slice those up right away (still sticky have a sharp knife or butcher wire) and serve with the pork gravy.

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JustAutreWaterBender@reddit

Yep, about once a month. I WFH, easy to stick something in the oven around noon and then roast some taters and such for dinner. Gotta have a salad with it.

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fook75@reddit

Yes. I make roasts on Sundays. Usually a pork roast.

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linkxrust@reddit

yes all the time.

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Mehitobel@reddit

My family comes from Welsh descent, and we do roasts quite often.

OK_Stop_Already@reddit

Yeah totally. I eat pork roast often. It's awesome. Roasted red potatoes and carrots and parsnips and onions all the shebang.

psychologicallyblue@reddit

I think this is more common in certain regions of the US and they may not call it a "roast dinner".

This is not a common dish in my family outside of holidays, although it is more common for some of my Midwestern relatives. My husband and I do this maybe once or twice a year (he's British) but to be totally honest, the traditional roast dinner is not my favorite. I tend to want to make it more interesting. Like instead of a regular beef roast, why not do a green curry version? Or a gojuchang roasted potato?

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RightComposer@reddit

Yes, Indiana USA here, I just made roast beef (eye of round roast) a couple of days ago, along with gravy from the drippings and mashed potatoes. We had hash from it today and still sliced beef for sandwiches in the fridge.

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riversroadsbridges@reddit

My mom used to do a roast every few weeks, and it was NOT a proper roast. She's just put a hunk of beef into the crock pot with some water and let it cook until it was stringy. It was mostly tasteless and somehow both wet and dry.

Sometimes she'd dump a bag of baby carrots in with the roast in the last hour of cooking. It did not help.

One of my absolute least favorite meals growing up.

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ParkerLurks@reddit

Had a great simple pot roast tonight. Up in the mountains. Exercising all day. Came back to a chuck roast in the crock pot with carrots, onions, potatoes. Perfect!

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cheekmo_52@reddit

When I was growing up, a Sunday roast was pretty standard fare. As an adult, I live alone, so a Sunday roast would be impractical.

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BoldBoimlerIsMyHero@reddit

growing up we had "Bag 'n season" pot roast once in a while. We might have a prime rib roast at Christmas. We had a roast turkey on Thanksgiving and sometimes Christmas. Roast chicken or Cornish hens once in a while. our Sunday dinner was usually pan fried chicken and fixings (mashed potatoes, corn, greens, salad, cornbread or biscuits, gravy, sliced tomatoes, homemade pickles, etc)

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Physical-Ad2947@reddit

Grew up in the Midwest, so big yes.

I think mashed potatoes are more common that roasties. Also, bread or yeast rolls rather than Yorkshire pudding.

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Cock--Robin@reddit

Growing up my wife’s family had Sunday roasts. My family was a Sunday fried chicken supper family.

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michaelincognito@reddit

Hell yeah we do

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Honestly, the US is absolutely filled with people from all over the world and for over 250 years we've been exposed to the food those people used to eat in their home countries.

Then, just because we have a desire to invent new stuff, we'll combine foods to make new stuff.

If you can think of a food, you can find it somewhere in most American cities and often find it in small towns as well

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movienerd7042@reddit

Op is specifically talking about a U.K. style roast dinner which is a specific dish

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12B88M@reddit

So am I.

A roast is basically any large cut of meat from any animal. In the pot with the meat cut are typically potatoes and carrots, but other foods can also be included according to the individual tastes of the person making the roast.

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movienerd7042@reddit

For example a U.K. Sunday roast would never be cooked in a pot and the vegetables are cooked separately. There are specific sides, some go with certain meats but there are staples like Yorkshire pudding and cauliflower cheese and stuffing. The potatoes are also always roasted with fat and again they’re always cooked separately.

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12B88M@reddit

they’re always cooked separately.

According to several British chefs, the vegetables and potatoes can either be cooked with the meat or separately according to the tastes of the people making it.

Cooking it with the meat steams them and infuses them with a very meaty flavor.

Cooking them separately is more time consuming, but results in a slightly crispy outside.

As for the pot, it's simply a different method for cooking the meat, In the US we have specific things for making roasts called "roasters" They are typically oval and are used in the oven.

The other method is the "pot roast" method where the meat is cooked in a slow cooker for several hours at very low heat.

Basically, you're splitting hairs with the "It's not a proper roast dinner if you don't do it EXACLY the same way as my favorite roast dinner is made." nonsense.

If I told you to make a hamburger patty, would you grill it or fry it? If you grill it would you do it over charcoal or gas? If you fry it would you do it on a large flat iron or in a pan? Would you season it with just salt and pepper, leave it unseasoned or use some other spice?

Regardless of how you do it, you will end up with a hamburger patty.

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movienerd7042@reddit

Like literally just google UK Sunday roast and you’ll see that it’s a specific dish which is different to a pot roast

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12B88M@reddit

Ands I said, many comments ago, that we have every food you could imagine.

Not everyone does pot roasts. Many do standard pan roasts.

Do you have barbecue in the UK? If you do, I could easily pick it apart saying "That's not barbecue." by nitpicking spices, cooking times, temperatures and everything else.

Now, had I specified "Texas barbecue", that would be narrowing it down a bit, but that is still a very broad category as there is East, West, South, North and central variations of Texas barbecue. Then, in each of those regions they have variations among different restaurants and family cookbooks.

All of that and we still haven't covered any of the barbecue from the rest of the US.

The only thing that remains the same is that the meat is cooked very slowly.

But you have decided that you are the arbiter of what a "proper British Roast Dinner" is.

A question though. Do they make it different in Scotland, Wales and England? Are there variations in how they make a roast dinner in Scarborough and Plymouth? I can guarantee there are differences. That doesn't mean they aren't all considered roast dinners.

So if you come to the US, you can find dozens of variations of roast dinners, just like you can in the UK.

My family doesn't often do a standard roasted beef in a pan, because it's a very particular process that can easily go wrong. Typically we do pot roasts because it can take even the driest, toughest pieces of meat and make them remarkably tender and juicy. It's also ridiculously easy because you just cook everything for 8 hours.

However, I refer you AGAIN, to the actual question;

Do americans eat “roast” dinners?

He further clarified by asking;

Like a proper roast with meat + roast potatoes (or some other carb) + veggies on the side.

So my roast has meat, potatoes (not roasted, but it is still a carb) and a vegetable. This fits the question and the answer is that we do.

Now, had he specified;

Do Americans eat traditional British roast dinners?

You'd have an argument as any traditional British dinner isn't common here.

But he didn't.

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movienerd7042@reddit

No, there aren’t regional variants. It just is what it is. And the fact that you can’t understand a Sunday roast being a specific dish shows me that you probably don’t generally have it. The Sunday roast isn’t defined as any type of roast meat. If you made roast beef with no gravy, mashed potatoes and just asparagus on the side it wouldn’t be a U.K. Sunday roast because too many elements would be different.

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12B88M@reddit

And the fact that you can’t understand a Sunday roast being a specific dish shows me that you probably don’t generally have it.

Mouth Watering Classic Roast Beef Recipe

Yes, we DO have them. But for the US, it isn't something people generally care to do just because it's Sunday. It's a more of a "I want a roast" thing.

After all, we have literally the food of the entire freaking planet to choose from.

You want a special meal on a Sunday? Take your pick. Literally anything you might think of is available EVERY Sunday in the US.

One day we might go do Indian food. The next might be Chinese. maybe we'll stay at home and grill steaks or pork chops. Or maybe we'll have some Brazilian food.

Because the US is so incredibly large and diverse we don't think of any one dish as a nationally recognized Sunday meal.

But don't think we don't eat foods you have in the UK. We do. However, most of the food you have in the UK is not very good by American standards. Perhaps that's why I have never seen a "British" restaurant in the US.

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movienerd7042@reddit

Also do you think we’re living in some kind of World War Two rationing with only boiled potatoes and mutton or whatever you think our food is to eat? We have many international options too 😂

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12B88M@reddit

No. It's just that traditionally British food isn't all that great.

The US has no really "traditional" food because the US is incredibly multicultural. People have come here from every country for centuries and the food ideas they brought have permeated the culture to the point they are now just food that most Americans eat on a regular basis. However, nobody is going crazy about kidney pie, beans and toast or black pudding. Fish and chips is even low on the list of food people here want.

So, when he said "roast dinner", he meant exclusively a dry roasted meat with dry roasted potatoes and vegetables?

Yes.

It’s often a weekend thing though, when longer cooking times can be accommodated.

But I grew up eating beef roasts and pork roasts regularly.

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kritter4life@reddit

Yes all the time.

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Superb-Fail-9937@reddit

Absolutely! I just made that a few weeks ago. With mashed potatoes!

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donuttrackme@reddit

Yes and no. There are so many Americans out there you can't really generalize that much.

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Vyckerz@reddit

As much as we can.

I love roast dinners, whether it’s roast beef or a roasted chicken with potatoes! A pork roast now and then is awesome as well

American who grew up with an Aussie mum and went to a British school. Roast dinners were more of a holiday thing in my family, although my mum did make roast beef and Yorkshire pud on occasion.

Not so much in my family - we have some Italian heritage and our big family dinners (if we do a Sunday dinner together etc) tend to be pasta-based. We do a traditional turkey dinner for thanksgiving, but our Christmas dinners are usually homemade ravioli (although some years we take cues from our Jewish neighbors and order Chinese food*). Easter might be a roast depending on which aunt or uncle hosts.

*Is this just a US Jewish thing? I'm not sure, but I grew up with a lot of Jewish neighbors and this was the tradition in my neighborhood.

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requiemguy@reddit

There's no such thing as a UK specific food, just like there's no such thing as a US specific food.

Stop thinking everything is special.

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movienerd7042@reddit

I never said that everything is special. You seem to think that op was talking about pot roast, I clarified that they’re talking about the Sunday roast, which is a specific traditional dish different to pot roast, eaten across the U.K. and in multiple other countries with cultural connections to the U.K..

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requiemguy@reddit

Pot roast was eaten in what would be the modern UK hundreds of years before the Western Hemisphere was navigated.

Like with every food, the answer is sort of.

Tsu_na_mi@reddit

Meat + starch + veg is a very common, standard evening meal in the US. The meat is not always roasted, but is often enough. Chicken, roast beef, pork and sauerkraut, ham, ribs, etc. are all fairly common roasted entrees.

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RandomPaw@reddit

Somebody asks this like every few months. Maybe few weeks. The answer is still yes.

doc_skinner@reddit

Like 90% of the questions on this sub, some do and some don't.

New year's day we do roast pork and sauerkraut.

A couple other times a year I'll do a beef chuck roast or pork tenderloin.

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4Q69freak@reddit

We do a pork roast or beef pot roast all the time. We usually do ours in the crock pot qnd let it slow cook all day so it almost falls apart. We always put potatoes, carrots, and onion in ours.

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SunnyBlue8731@reddit

As a British person whose lived in the US since middle school I would say no. My British parents do a Sunday roast every week. The whole day revolves around it and it feels different. It’s always around 1 or 2 and the whole house smells like the roasting meat. There are roast potatoes and gravy and Yorkshire pudding if it’s beef. It’s not rushed and there’s a timing around the cooking time and the vegetable peeling etc. And a pie or crumble after. Then there’s no other meal that day. You can get yourself something later but the kitchen is closed. This goes on year round.

My American inlaws often roast meat on Sunday for an after church meal. But it can also be lasagna or grilling food. It’s just a family meal. And they can easily skip it if there’s something else to do.

I think it’s the routine and the sameness of it that makes it different. My kids definitely see the difference between their grandparents on this. They like both, but don’t even call the American grandparents meal a roast dinner. It’s just a dinner.

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Waisted-Desert@reddit

A roasted chicken and vegetables used to be a lot cheaper than many other meals, we had it often growing up. After the meal, the chicken carcass would be used to make a large pot of chicken soup or stew. A few bucks would feed a family of four several meals.

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Anthrodiva@reddit

I think it happens, but not as culturally set in stone like it seems to be in the UK (and Oz).

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Desert_Sox@reddit

It's a Sunday dinner - maybe six times a year.

Depends on where in the US and the ethnic makeup of the people there. CA eats out a lot more than other places so roast dinner isn't as common. NYC also has a lot of eating out but in the Italian communities - there seem to be roast dinner. Places with snow cook more often than places where it is warm all the time. In places where it is hot, roasting in the oven doesn't happen too often because who wants to heat the house.

Roasts were a staple when moms stayed home and cooked, cleaned, reared the children.

When moms went to work roasts were relegated to Sundays. Now roasts are too expensive we just stare at them on tv.

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Yes, though we vary things. In my neck of the woods, you might see tri tip cooked on the grill, or a carne asada (Sunday meal with grilled meats, tortillas, guacamole, salsas, rice, beans, etc.), or grilled chicken. Also, it is fairly common for Italian American families to have pasta with Sunday sauce, which is essentially ragù napoletana.

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CLEHts216@reddit

Isn’t it still wildly less expensive than a typical dinner out? I don’t eat meat but husband does — got boneless ribeyes 2/$15 at Aldis (not a roast I know) but considering what steak dinners cost out, it’s a good bargain.

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KrazySunshine@reddit

When I was a kid my mom would make chicken or beef or ham for Sundays with mashed potatoes and a vegetable.

But my husband’s grandmother would make roast beef plus spaghetti and meatballs, homemade pizza, a vegetable, and maybe even eggplant parm with it. It was always a huge feast on a Sunday.

Traditional-Job-411@reddit

I think every western country has roast dinners. All the European ones, Canada, US etc.

I always find it funny that England claims it. What’s different with the French roast dinners? Or German?

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khak_attack@reddit

We often have meals of a roast meat with potatoes and vegetables, and we often have family dinners, but it's not *a thing*. We just happen to be having a roast or a family dinner that night. If you told someone you're having "a roast dinner" that doesn't imply anything. It just means you're roasting a meat. Alternatively, if you told someone you're making "a roast" they'd ask you what kind, because we usually qualify what we are roasting. E.g. roast chicken, roast beef, roast pork, etc. Default just "roast" is roast beef or pot roast (beef).

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gravely_serious@reddit

We do roast beef about two or three times a month. We're busy, and it's easy to prepare and easy to clean up and usually has a decent amount of leftovers for lunches during the week. Roasts seem to go on sale quite often. Meat and veg goes in the dutch oven, dutch oven goes in the oven in the morning, it's ready by dinner time. One pot to clean. We usually do it with carrots and potatoes.

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YesTomatillo@reddit

Others have said yes, I will contribute a no. I think it has to do with where you are from and your family.

My parents were divorced and shared custody, and both worked full time, so nobody really had time to prepare fresh cooked dinners as a matter of course.

I think for me, the US equivalent would be grilling. A Saturday or Sunday spent grilling - meat and veg but buying sides - was common. I don't think I ever had roast dinner until I was an adult and did it myself. But grilling out might be every Saturday - hamburgers, brats or hotdogs, steak, chicken, shrimp, etc. Sides might be beans and coleslaw, corn on the grill, or steamed veggies.

Closest thing I had to roast dinner was store-bought rotisserie chicken and steamed veggies.

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PitbullRetriever@reddit

Agreed with this. I think of traditional roasts as a very midwestern thing in the US. Here in Southern California we’re much more like to fire up the grill for a carne asada.

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bbspiders@reddit

Same, I made a pot roast once, during COVID lockdown 😂

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Antisirch@reddit

I agree; I live in MN and I do not turn the oven on during the summer, but run it often during the winter. We typically spend Christmas with my husband’s family in TX, and most of the time, using the oven for a holiday dinner is miserable.

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Pinepark@reddit

Our grill is in our west facing back yard. The trees are along the sides of our property. We couldn’t realistically move our grill to the side of our house - it’s all flowers and shrubs and even my bee hives. lol We don’t grill at all from about July to October. We are in Florida.

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Glum-Building4593@reddit

Short answer. Yes. Long answer, they take more time. Someone has to do that so it usually falls to weekends for us. Weeknight dinners are usually something that is "one pan" or fast. Maybe if we are feeling prepared we'll let chez crockpot do the work and have dinner hot and ready when we roll in.

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SakaWreath@reddit

Yep. But I’m old and we cook at home quite a bit. I think the new tradition with younger generations is “order expensive cold crap”.

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Huge_Statistician441@reddit

I’m from Spain but live in the US and married to an American. I make roast dinner on Sunday almost every week.

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Homebody_Ninja42@reddit

We eat this kind of meal a lot but I never heard it called “a roast” until I moved to the UK. We would say “we’re having roast beef”, using roast as an adjective. “A roast” with no other information sounds cute and British to me.

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Just_curious4567@reddit

Yes except lately I’ve been cooking the big piece of meat in the insta-pot because the meat gets more tender that way.

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MattieShoes@reddit

It's the archetype dinner for a family of 4+.

If you live alone, it may be overkill.

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LeSkootch@reddit

What you described, basically a protein, starch, vegetable, and sauce is the standard plate set up. We just don't call it a "roast dinner." I cooked dinner last night and roasted a pork tenderloin, made roasted butternut squash and garlic sautéed green beans with rolls on the side. Just called it "dinner."

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juliabk@reddit

Sure. They’re great and not all that difficult to do. Thanksgiving, though, is traditionally turkey. While my family doesn’t have a meal tradition for Christmas (didn’t want mom cooking all day when we were kids), turkey is traditional. I’ve know some who did ham instead shrug

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Appropriate-Win3525@reddit

We used to do both when I was kid. Ham was for Christmas Eve and then a turkey on Christmas Day. I don't remember it, but my dad said his dad used to have a roast goose for Christmas.

My paternal grandmother made a roast beef dinner almost every Sunday. Other types of roasted meats are also popular, especially chicken.

Hell yes.

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toodleroo@reddit

Yes, but I call it "baked." Baked chicken and potatoes and carrots. Not too often though cause that shit is caloric.

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LustfulEsme@reddit

Oh yes. Pot toast with potatoes, carrots and onions ís a staple.

Jdornigan@reddit

Roasts used to be an economical meal.

Beef, lamb and pork got more expensive over the last five years so it is less common to make a roast.

Animal disease, in particular with chickens a few years ago in the USA, has really impacted prices for meat of all types, so people that would eat chicken switched to beef, and it caused beef prices to go up.

It takes roughly 36 to 40 months for a beef cattle rancher to rebuild herds after deciding to keep more heifers, meaning supply shortages cannot be fixed quickly. Combined with drought in cattle ranching areas and supply is much lower than demand.

I'm in New England, and stews and roasts are some of our traditional foods. I was just in San Francisco, and had to explain to several people my age what a Yorkshire Pudding was, because California was a Spanish colony, so they don't have the strong British influence that we have here in New England.

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GoddessOfOddness@reddit

Yes. Less than we used to.

Roast chicken is a fairly typical Sunday dinner meal. Or Roast beef. Meatloaf. Roast pork with sauerkraut or apples/pineapple. Ham, especially Easter or New Years.

Mashed potatoes

Veggies.

I’m in my 50s. My mom cooked classic American fair. Roast meals were about once a week. So was noodles with a meat, pasta, and a sauce (most often spaghetti).

Now we are trying to eat more healthy, so fish and high protein meals are becoming more common.

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Current_Poster@reddit

Oh absolutely, yeah.

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xmodemlol@reddit

This is so strange, I'm so surprised by all the "yes"es. I live in California. Not only do I not have a roast dinner, I'm not entirely sure what a roast dinner is, and I feel fairly certain that nobody I know eats one.

Yes, I used to do it nearly every Sunday, but any weeknight will do also, I just start the roast low in the morning.

I have been doing more pork roast than beef lately, but it's still on the menu. Roast, potatoes, onions, & carrots slow cooked most of the day. Mmm.

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MagnumForce24@reddit

We have Pot Roast or something similar at least a couple times a month.

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acu101@reddit

Yes it’s common, but barbecue seems more common here in south Texas

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StutzBob@reddit

That's just meat, carb, and veggie. Of course we eat dinners like that here, in many forms. They might be literally roasted in an oven (such as pork loin or roast beef) or they might not (pork chops, fried chicken).

It's usually a large family or good size gathering type of meal.

Growing up in a large family, Mom put a roast in the oven and set the timer to start the oven so the roast would be almost cooked when we got back from church.

Yes. It was usually my nice, cheapish meal, since since I would buy large chunks of meat on sale in bulk.

Yeah, we just don’t call them roast dinners.

Content-Dealers@reddit

Pretty often, yeah.

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Xrpslanger91@reddit

Love roasts! I'll do a roast 1 night, make French dip the next night, then the 3rd night make tacos out of it with BBQ sauce and red onion! So good!

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Temporary-Library597@reddit

No. Our mothers served us nothing but popsicles and drain cleaner every night for supper. /s

Growing up we would go to my grandma's house every Sunday for lunch, which feels like the spirit of a roast dinner: family coming together for a wholesome meal.

Rarely did we have roast beef, with roast potatoes and carrots with gravy, but it was in the rotation. Grandma was an amazing cook and shed make main courses like fried chicken, meatloaf, lasagna, and stuffed cabbage rolls. All veggies were from her garden.

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Eschewed_Prognostic@reddit

It wasn't normal growing up and most people I knew didn't either but it seems to be getting more popular as more families are returning to cooking from scratch. I do a pork or beef roast probably once a month with what looked good at the farmer's market that week.

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coffeeandcoffeeand@reddit

Roasted chicken every Sunday. Grew up with roast beef on Sundays.

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Rose_E_Rotten@reddit

I just made a pot roast 2 days ago

Beef, onions, potatoes, beef broth, sometimes carrots but not this time.

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AlmiranteCrujido@reddit

Do americans eat “roast” dinners?

Americans do sometimes eat roast meat for dinner. They also eat "roasts" for dinner, although that can be any larger-than-single-serving cut of meat (especially beef), and isn't necessarily roasted.

What Americans don't do is name the meal after it.

As for eating "roasts" that aren't roasted, see specifically "pot roast" - which is actually typically a braised beef recipe, made from a less-tender cut (chuck, round, partial brisket.)

For beef a lot of large cuts of are just called the "[part of a cow] roast" if it's larger than a steak, but smaller than the whole primal cut.

So if you have a big hunk of chuck, or round, or a few beef ribs but not a whole rack of them, at the supermarket or some butchers, that's a "chuck roast," "round roast," or "rib roast" (or "ribeye roast" if it's either just the longissimus dorsi muscle or a place is consfusing a boneless rib roast with ribeye steaks.)

The latter is amazing as a traditional roast and would be wasted doing a tenderizing cook. The chuck is much better braised or slow-cooked on a smoker. The round can go either way, although I prefer smoking them.

That's sometimes extended to pork (e.g. if you want a big chunk of pork loin, say, vs. individual chops or an entire pork loin, it might or might not be called a "roast" as a cut at the supermarket.)

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No-Conclusion4639@reddit

Very common preparation of Beef, Chicken, or Pork...potatoes, carrots and onions were usually with beef, pork roast and roasted chicken usually by itself, when I was a kid.

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Whatasonofabitch@reddit

My family eats at home more than most and eats more beef than most in the US. I’d guess that we eat roast 20 times per year, (chuck, rump, sirloin tip, rib in order of frequency)

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Outside_Ad1669@reddit

Yes, pretty frequently. Problem here is that I think many Americans have an aversion to bones. It is actually really difficult to find a proper seven bone roast around here. Everything is boneless in our stores.

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Electrical_Welder205@reddit

It varies from family to family, and cook to cook. It's surprisingly common these days for families to not have formal, organized dinners with everyone eating together. Kids are so busy with sports and other activities, in some families everyone eats at different times, especially as the kids get into their teen years. And with both parents working, no one has time to make more time-consuming dinners. Easy to cook meals are more practical. Or meals that can be prepared on weekends and refrigerated to be reheated during the week.

These trends mean roasts are a more rare option than they used to be. There's also an affordability issue involved. How many people in the UK can afford roasts on a regular basis?

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ryamanalinda@reddit

We had a roast growing up. It was a Sunday typical Sunday thing. Of course ours were the cheapest cut of roast that could be found.

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Snoo18939@reddit

More common for white people

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Sufficient_Fan3660@reddit

beef, potatoes, carrots, onion - was very common in us households until beef prices shot up

a whole chicken is easier on the pocketbook

some americans like pork cooked this way, I find it dry and bland

I like roasting fennel or kohlrabi with meat, but it is not common for americans.

I don't like sweet meat, so instead of carrots I go for cabbage or brussel sprouts.

typical side dish for a roast would be mashed potatoes and gravy, or mac and cheese

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Bandag5150@reddit

Yes. Roast pork or beef, mashed potatoes, turnip/collard greens and biscuits at least once a month in the winter. It’s too hot for a heavy meal in the Georgia summer.

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saltnshadow@reddit

Love a good pot roast browned in flour, which is then used to make the best gravy with potatoes and carrots.

animepuppyluvr@reddit

We do something similar maybe once every few months to as often as three times a month. But usually only once every few months. We rotate between chicken and rice or similar, Asian, Mexican, and Italian food mostly.

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Entropy907@reddit

Sunday roast in the crockpot? All the time, at least during winter.

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Crazy-Squash9008@reddit

No we just eat burgers and pink slime.

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captainstormy@reddit

We don't call it a roast like the British do exactly. When they say Roast they mean both an event and a food. Like we do when we say Barbecue.

Growing up Id say 90% of my meals were meat, potatoes or corn and a green vegetable. Of those meals, most would be a roast. Pot roast, roast beef, roast chicken, venison roasts, pork loin roasts, etc etc.

I still love a good roast but I do it a little different than my grandmother did. She would do a roast with mashed potatoes on the side. I like to dice the potatoes with some shallots, carrots, celery, garlic and bell peppers with it as well. I'll usually do either turnip greens or a side salad with it.

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Diligent_Mulberry47@reddit

Meat+carb+veggie is the base of almost every meal for me.

A British roast? I'm going to say not really, No. There is no Yorkshire pudding and it's not cooked the same way, typically. I rarely hear of people having a chicken roast for example.

I hear of people having pot roast a lot or a Christmas roast is common but idk I just don't think it's the same. But I'm also absolutely not located in meat and potatoes land so maybe it is super common elsewhere.

Crock pot roast is very common.

Toss a roast, potatoes, and veggies in a crock pot

Cook for hours. Thicken to make gravy and enjoy

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Username98101@reddit

Chuck pot roast with potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, onion.

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Artificial-Human@reddit

Yes! Kansas man reporting in. It’s very common. A whole chicken roasted with vegetables/potatoes around it. A beef roast with the same. Even a roast pork loin rubbed with herbs. We like mashed potatoes on the side or bread or both.

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Somethingisshadysir@reddit

Very normal here

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Designer-Issue-6760@reddit

Absolutely. But broaden the definition of roast. Things like barbecue, pot roast. Maybe even meatloaf. All regular meals here.

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Roast beef, roast pork, roast chicken, with choice of sides, vegetables and dessert, depending on your family’s preferences. Growing up, we often had roast beef, mashed potatoes, gravy, roast carrots, and cherry pie. If not carrots, then usually corn on the cob, peas or green beans. Sometimes salad.

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ZookeepergameOk1833@reddit

Less now than in the past. A roast used to be sunday dinner. Now it's more likely in the crock pot.

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YoshiandAims@reddit

Yes.

All my ex wife could do was frozen bags of meat/veggies on the stove or a crock pot.

So glad I divorced her lazy ass.

I make a fantastic brisket in the crock pot. The leftovers make a phenomenal sammich if my family doesn't inhale the entire thing the first night.

I just had roast beef last night. Homemade in the crockpot all day.

Like a classic family dinner

Exactly the same here too

Personally I make a roast or something similar most Sundays unless my church is doing something in the evening