Champ (food) Champ (food) Champ ("brúitín" in Irish) is an Irish dish, made by combining mashed potatoes and chopped spring onion with butter, milk, cheese and optionally, salt and pepper. As recently as the mid-20th century it was sometimes made with stinging nettle rather than spring onions but this is rarely seen now. 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 spring onions. The word champ has also been adopted into the popular Hiberno-English phrases, to be "as
Austrian cuisine side dish, for example, crushed potatoes with onions called "Greste Krumpian"(= Geröstete Kartoffeln coming from "geröstet", roasted and the Hungarian term "krumpli" for potatoes). Because of Hungary's Balkan influences, Burgenlandish dishes are often spicier than elsewhere in Austria, often indicated with the terms "Zigeuner..." ("Gypsy") or "Serbisch..." ("Serbian"). Polenta is a popular side-dish within Burgenland's Croatian minority. On St Martin's Day (November 11) a "Martinigans" (St Martin's goose) is often prepared, and carp is a typical Christmas dish. In Styrian "Buschenschanken" (seasonal wine taverns), "Verhackertes" (a spread made from finely chopped raw bacon) is served. Schilcher, a very dry rosé,