I love mashed potatoes, and I make really good ones. I used cream, garlic, and a ton of butter!  Do you like them?
I also love mashed potatoes! I like them with garlic and I like them plain, but always with butter!
Thanksgiving and Christmas wouldn't be the same without them! 
I agree, do you use a mixer or do you mash them yourself, I just recently bought one of those masher things.
I use a hand-cranked food mill.  You can mash them quickly that way and they still keep texture. 
That is a great idea!  I get a meal delivery service and they have mashed potatoes a lot! Do you leave the skins on?
the dish started appearing in 1747 with an entry in "The Art of Cookery" by Hannah Glasse. Dehydrated and frozen mashed potatoes are available in many supermarkets.
Mashed potato may be used as an intermediary ingredient for other dishes such as dumplings and gnocchi, in which case the potatoes may be baked or boiled, and may or may not have dairy or seasoning added.
Ingredients.
The use of "floury" types of potatoes is recommended, although "waxy" potatoes are sometimes used for a different texture
Speech act
A speech act in linguistics and the philosophy of language is something expressed by an individual that not only presents information, but performs an action as well. For example, the phrase "I would like the mashed potatoes, could you please pass them to me?" is considered a speech act as it expresses the speaker's desire to acquire the mashed potatoes, as well as presenting a request that someone pass the potatoes to them. According to Kent Bach, "almost any speech act is really the performance