The survey identified a pancake, boiled egg and prawns as some of the weirdest items included in people’s roast dinners, while the majority of Brits (84%) voted no to having ketchup or mayo with their roast.
The five most popular roast dinner items included gravy (97%), roast potatoes (94%), meat (84%), Yorkshire puddings (84%) and carrots (81%). Beef was the nation’s favourite roast dinner meat, with nearly two fifths (39%) of the votes, followed by ham and chicken both of which were selected by 21% of respondents.
Canterbury was discovered to be the ‘roast capital’ of the UK, followed by Newquay and Norwich. To curate the list, Last Minute Cottages used Google and TripAdvisor reviews to reveal the total number of restaurants serving roast dinners with an overall star rating of 4.5 or above.
Matthew Fox, chief executive of the Snaptrip Group, said: “Although the festive season is still a good couple of months away, the cold weather has already begun to creep in, and people are once again beginning to crack open the tins of tomato soup, dust off their winter jackets, and get back into the rhythm of the weekly Sunday roast. So, we decided it was time to find out what a British roast dinner looks like and where in the UK you’ve got the best chance of eating a top-rated one.
“It was interesting to see Canterbury at the top of the list and London at the bottom, however when you look at the number of top-rated-roasts per 100,000 residents, it’s clear London just doesn’t have enough to go around! Our survey also threw up some surprises - nearly half of people don’t think pigs in blankets should be an all-year-round item.”