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It's a Sunday staple for people across the UK every week - the roast dinner is surely one of Britain's proudest traditions. It may look different depending where you are in the country, but for those of us who regularly eat a Sunday roast, the main ingredients stay the same - a roasted joint of meat, roast potatoes, vegetables, and lashings of gravy.

We Brits can also get quite territorial over our Sunday roasts, as we all believe that the way we make ours is the only acceptable method, and any other variations are just wrong. Some will argue Yorkshire puddings can only be served with beef, while others will say that cauliflower cheese is not an acceptable side dish. So when one American woman on social media decided to try her hand at making a Sunday dinner for her family for the very first time, British viewers didn't hold back in letting her know what they thought say about her efforts.

The mum, named Lyd, has a series on TikTok in which she makes one traditional meal from a random country each week to introduce her children to new cultures and foods. In a recent video, she said her wheel of countries landed on the UK, and she decided to make a traditional Sunday roast. She did clarify that the UK will stay on her wheel, and when she lands on it again in the future, she will focus on dishes specifically from Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.

Lyd went all out for her Sunday roast, making her own stuffing balls and her own Yorkshire puddings from scratch. She began with the stuffing, mixing sausage meat with an egg, herbs, and breadcrumbs.

She then prepared her joint of roast beef by smothering it in seasoning. She didn't say what she put on her beef, but it appeared to include paprika and garlic powder among a few others. She then seared her meat on all sides in a pan on the stove before transferring it to the oven to roast.

For her sides, she chose to do honey-roasted carrots and cauliflower cheese, and, of course, a generous helping of roast potatoes. She also seasoned her potatoes with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, and rosemary, which she added after parboiling but before putting them in the oven.

After making her own cheese sauce, setting the meat juices aside to add to her gravy, and making a batter for her homemade Yorkshire puddings, Lyd poured the batter into a muffin tray and put it in the oven, before setting about mixing her meat juices with some beef bone broth to make a gravy.

She let her meat rest for an hour before cutting it, and the video showed it was the perfect shade of pink in the centre when she finally carved it. She said: "I'm definitely going to be making this again because it was delicious. It's going to be something I need to make like once a month on a Sunday."

Although her roast dinner looked delicious when she served it up, commenters on the video had just one problem with her dish - the amount of seasoning she had used. Most Brits had no issue with the seasoning on the roast potatoes, but many said there was no need to put so many herbs and spices on the joint of beef, as they said the whole point was to enjoy the meat flavours as they come.

One person asked: "Wait, did you put paprika on the beef? Why?"

Another added: "We wouldn't normally season our meat like that. Just use herbs like rosemary and thyme so you can still taste the flavour profile of the joint."

But there were many commenters who praised her for her efforts, as they said she had gone to greater lengths than most of us do by making her own Yorkshire puddings, stuffing, gravy, and even horseradish sauce from scratch.

Someone noted: "As a Brit I think that looks really good and 90 per cent of the haters probably can't make a roast from scratch."