MASHED POTATO • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Mashed potato

... 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