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
(Do the) Mashed Potatoes including "Dish Rag", "Slow Down", and "Wobble Wobble", but none was successful. Eventually made aware of Brown's outside success, Syd Nathan relented and allowed him to release future instrumentals on King, starting with the 1961 single "Hold It" b/w "The Scratch". James Brown had a second Mashed Potatoes-themed hit with "Mashed Potatoes U.S.A." in 1962. ""Nat Kendrick & The Swans"": Nat Kendricks & The Swans 1960 (Dade Records 1804 US) Brown recorded a remake of "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes" for his 1980 album "Soul Syndrome". The British beat group The Undertakers recorded a cover version of "(Do the) Mashed Potatoes"