Talk:mashed potato
Latest comment: 1 year ago by Equinox in topic plural mashed potatoes
Origin[edit]
There was a comment in the mash entry that said this term was "originally lower-class colloquial from early 1900s". Equinox ◑ 01:20, 27 November 2018 (UTC)
plural mashed potatoes[edit]
Apart from non idiomatic meaning in "two mashed potatoes", what does the plural mashed potatoes actually mean? several dishes/types of mashed potato(es)? --Backinstadiums (talk) 11:16, 17 January 2020 (UTC)
- "Mashed potato" can be uncountable ("some mashed potato on my plate") or countable ("this is one mashed potato; I didn't buy more than one"). If you mash more than one potato, those are "(two, three, four...) mashed potatoes"; however, "mashed potatoes" can also be used as uncountable. Equinox ◑ 17:15, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
Also a humorous shout by golf spectators[edit]
You can find lots of videos of spectators shouting "mashed potato" or "mashed potatoes" straight after the golfer hits the ball. Seems to be some kind of meme, apparently first done by one Andrew Widmar at the 2011 Chevron World Challenge. Equinox ◑ 17:14, 18 May 2023 (UTC)