It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I can do a good roast with my eyes closed. I'm amazing with gravy. That's my speciality; even other people ask me to do gravy at their house. I'm very proud of my gravy.
I had never done a roast, but I really wanted to, because it's so different from standup.
A roast is like a get-together where people come down and talk about you and dog you out, the way you came up, the knucklehead things that you did, stuff like that.
I can eat beef, provided it's minced in disguise. I couldn't eat a gammon steak. Forget it.
Beef also was difficult to be procured and exceedingly poor; the price nearly sixpence farthing per pound.
And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.
Yes, beef is what was for dinner last night. Tonight it will be my dinner, and it will continue to be.
I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.