mashed potato

A page on the BBC website has the following introduction.
"To the West, the potato is much like the cow to the Hindu religion: revered it is allowed to grow wherever it pleases, sometimes disrupting traffic for seasons at a time. Mashed potato is the highest form of the potato."

It's slightly nonsensical and a bit lofty but it drives home a point that mashed potato is an important stable food in the West.

Keep it simple

A scour around the web will find many recipes for mashed potato but most of them miss the point.

They all try and add a certain twist to the magical form of the potato but hear it now (from an expert)....mashed potato is just mashed potato - maybe a bit of butter and a little milk but nothing, absolutely nothing, else!

Potato masher

From my Amazon links below, you may (hopefully) see some bastardisations of potato mashers. However the image at the top of this text is the classic masher. Indeed, a design classic that will outlive the modern masher....and all of us.

Best food with mash (imho!)

1) Sausages = Sausage and mash.
2) Fish Fingers = Fish Fingers and mash.
3) Mince = Mince and mash.
4) Boil-in-the-bag cod in butter sauce - Fish and mash.