"Mashed potato" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... egg, which the grocer, with pleasing optimism, insists upon calling "fresh," one penny; bread and butter, per week, one shilling and sixpence; tea, milk, and sugar, per week, one and fourpence. Lunch, a really good, substantial meal, of savoury sausage or succulent fish and mashed potato, and a bun. If you are a lady the bun is indispensable; for if there is one faith implanted firmly in the feminine breast, it is that which accepts the penny bun as a form of nutrition not to be equalled. Thrones ...
— The Woman's Way • Charles Garvice
... consistency," Bobby argued. "There's mashed potato and frappe, for instance, equally hard, equally homogeneous, yet totally different. To my mind, there is a distinct choice ...
— The Dominant Strain • Anna Chapin Ray
... directed at Little Bobtail, who was more concerned about the propriety of his conduct at the table than about his deeds at Blank Island; but probably, if he had fed himself with his knife, his admiring friends would cheerfully have forgiven him. He found it more difficult to transfer mashed potato from his plate to his mouth with the silver fork than it was to dive off that cliff into the sea. When the pastry came on, it was absolutely appalling to think of eating custard pie with a fork, and he would rather have undertaken the feat of ...
— Little Bobtail - or The Wreck of the Penobscot. • Oliver Optic |
