Northern Irish cuisine and fried, often with bacon. Champ is a made with potatoes when they are mashed with milk and chopped scallions are added. Dulse is a seaweed snack food. Originally, it was harvested by fishermen for income supplementation when fishing was meager. Pasties are made from a mixture of sausage meat, onions, and mashed potato, shaped like a burger and spiced with black pepper. They can be ordered battered from most chip shops. The best known traditional dish in Northern Ireland is the Ulster fry. An Ulster fry, although not originally particularly associated with breakfast time, has in recent decades been
Instant mashed potatoes particular have been freeze-dried since at least the time of the Inca empire, in the form of chuño; another example is in Japanese Ainu cuisine. , titled "Dehydrate Potatoes and Process of Preparing the Same", and describing a product that was to be reconstituted in hot water, was applied for in 1905 and granted in 1912. Flake-form instant mashed potatoes date back at least to 1954, when two United States Department of Agriculture researchers were issued a patent for "Drum drying of cooked mashed potatoes" (), which describes the end product specifically being "as a thin sheet or flake". In