pratie

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pratie or praty (PRAY-tee) - n., a potato.



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Used primarily in Ireland, Scotland/N. England, and eastern Canada. From Irish prátaí, plural of práta, potato, from
Spanish patata (the source of English potato), from Taíno batata, sweet potato.


And that ends an undeclared theme week of plants ... run under the radar because I'm not really confident this one counts for that theme. Back to fully random next week.

---L.

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[full_metal_ox]

I encountered that one in various Irish cookbooks, specifically in the context of a folk song about the potato-and-greens mash colcannon:

Did you ever eat colcannon when ’twas made with yellow cream,

And the kale and praties blended like the picture in a dream?

Did you ever take a forkful, and dip it in the lake

Of the heather-flavoured butter that your mother used to make?

Alternately, in the version popularized by Mary Black:

Did you ever eat Colcannon, made from lovely pickled cream?

With the greens and scallions mingled like a picture in a dream.

Did you ever make a hole on top to hold the melting flake

Of the creamy, flavoured butter that your mother used to make?

As happens with folk songs, the lyrics are as variable as the recipe, which is subject to one’s own particular Irish mother.

[prettygoodword]

Folk songs are, indeed, as variable as the folk process.