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
Bread and butter pudding added to the mixture. In American cuisine it may be called "Cold Bread Pudding". A similar dish which is popular in Egypt, made with either bread or pastry, and including pistachio nuts, and without eggs, is called "Om Ali". Bread and butter pudding Bread and butter pudding is a traditional type of bread pudding popular in British cuisine. It is made by layering slices of buttered bread scattered with raisins in an oven dish, over which an egg custard mixture, made with milk or cream and normally seasoned with nutmeg, vanilla, and/or other spices, is poured. It is then baked