Champ (food)

Champ (food)
Champ

Champ (brúitín in Irish) is an Irish dish[1], made by combining mashed potatoes and chopped spring onions ("scallions") with butter and milk, and optionally, salt and pepper.[2] It is simple and inexpensive to produce. In some areas the dish is also called "poundies."

Champ is similar to another Irish dish, colcannon, which uses kale or cabbage in place of scallions.

The word champ has also been adopted into a popular Hiberno-English phrase, to be "as thick as champ", meaning to be stupid.

References

  1. ^ Carleton, William; O'Donoghue, David James (1896). Traits and stories of the Irish peasantry, Volume 4. London: J. M. Dent & Co.. p. 328. http://books.google.com/books?id=uCUOAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA328&dq=br%C3%BAit%C3%ADn&hl=en&ei=6upVTNTGNIqisQO7yYHbAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CEkQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q&f=false. 
  2. ^ Allen, Darina (2002). Darina Allen's Ballymaloe Cooking School Cookbook. Gretna, Louisiana (USA): Pelican Publishing Company. p. 182. ISBN 1589800362. http://books.google.com/books?id=X-QM9XUOp78C&pg=PA182&dq=mashed+potatoes+and+scallions&hl=en&ei=w-5VTOqEDYP6sAO9wZzSAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=mashed%20potatoes%20and%20scallions&f=false. 

External links

v · d · eTraditional Irish dishes
Bacon and cabbage · Barmbrack · Boxty · Carrageen moss · Champ · Coddle · Colcannon · Crubeens · Dilisk
Dublin Bay prawns · Drisheen (Packet) & Tripe · Goody · Irish stew · Limerick Ham · Skirts and kidneys · Soda bread
Spiced beef · Irish breakfast, including: Black pudding · White pudding · Sausages · Rashers · Fried eggs · Potato bread

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