BBC Christmas dinner guide sparks heated debate when it recommends just ONE potato per guest
A CHRISTMAS dinner guide has sparked fury online after recommending people are served only one roast potato each – but six Brussels Sprouts.
Christmas dinner is an institution, but there are varieties over how people serve the dish, with certain traditions in each family.
Debate has raged for years over whether mash potato, Yorkshire pudding and cauliflower cheese should make the cut.
But one front where we are all united is roast potatoes.
Plates need to be piled high with roasties, which are then eaten for leftovers over the next few days.
Which is why a BBC Good Food guide is attracting controversy online after suggesting a measly serving of two small, or one large, roast potato.
user Alice Pope, from Plymouth, shared a snap of a Christmas dinner guide with questionable portion sizes.
They advised turkey, carrots, parsnips, carrots, roast potatoes and sprouts should appear on the plate.
It says: “A 2.5kg crown feed six, or a 3-4kg turkey feeds six-eight.
“100ml per person is a good amount of gravy.
“One medium parsnip each.
“One medium [carrot] will do.
“Two small or large potato each is plenty, or increase if you want leftovers.
“Four – six per person – if they’re sprout lovers!”
The ratios have angered people up and down the country, with Alice’s original tweet racking up more than 5,000 likes.
She said: “I love BBC Good Food magazine but this is just all kinds of wrong, imagine a Christmas with one roast potato each.”
People agree with her, branding the BBC’s Christmas dinner plain “wrong”.
One person tweeted: “Have these people ever eaten a Christmas dinner?
“Always do [infinite] roasties and still be prepared for the fight for the last one in the bowl.”
Someone else fumed: “Where’s the pigs in blankets, stuffing & Yorkie puds?!
“Yes Yorkshire puddings DO go on Christmas dinner, well in my house they do.”
A third tweeted: “Obviously that’s nowhere near enough roasties, but they haven’t factored anything in the potato budget for mash either.
“What the hell is going on at the BBC?”
This person added: “Also double all of this cos no one is cooking for the next three days and if there are no leftovers then we’re surviving on Quality Street alone.”
Agreeing, this person wrote: “Surely you want leftover roast potatoes for some post Christmas fried potato breakfasts??”
Somebody else commented: “If I served one roast potato with 100ml of gravy to my family at Christmas this would be me very last.”
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