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
Salt potatoes The salty skin stands up particularly well to both herbed and plain melted butter. In Germany there is a dish with the same name, "Salzkartoffeln". However, far less salt is used compared to Syracuse Salt Potatoes; also, the potatoes often are peeled prior to cooking. So, despite the direct literal translation, "Boiled Potatoes" would be a more practical interpretation. "Salzkartoffeln" is a popular side dish in many German meals. The name "Salzkartoffeln" is used to distinguish peeled potatoes boiled in slightly salted water from unpeeled ones, usually boiled without any salt. The latter is called "Pellkartoffeln" and is eaten with