Champ (food) thick as champ", meaning to be stupid, and to be "as ignorant as champ at a wedding", meaning to be uncultured or boorish (champ being a common everyday dish, not one befitting a banquet celebration). 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
Mangú Mangú Mangú is a Dominican traditional side dish served for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Mangú is made up of boiled (either ripe or green) plantains. The plantains are then mashed with butter, margarine or oil in the water in which they were boiled. The dish is topped with sautéed red onions that have been cooked with vinegar. Queso Frito (fried cheese), fried Dominican "salami", eggs, and avocado are often added as side dishes. "Los tres golpes", literally "the three hits," is a term meaning "mangú" with cheese, salami, and eggs. Boiled mashed plantains can be traced back to Africans in