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mashed potatoes [please explain the joke connected to them, in the link]

English translation: wild animals' place is next to the potatoes on your plate

13:33 Nov 1, 2004
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English term or phrase: mashed potatoes [please explain the joke connected to them, in the link]
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Selected answer:wild animals' place is next to the potatoes on your plate
Explanation:
food retailer's advert

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Note added at 23 mins (2004-11-01 13:56:46 GMT)
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It\'s basically making fun of the notion that \"all god\'s creatures have their place on Earth\" by agreeing with it; yes they do have their place, on our plates!
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Konstantin Kisin
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:15
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5 +2wild animals' place is next to the potatoes on your plate
Konstantin Kisin
4 +2The elk is for eating, along with the mashed pota.toes
Melanie Nassar
4accompaniment to meat
Mark Nathan
4 -1potato puree
ileania
3See explanation
humbird


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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
mashed potatoes
The elk is for eating, along with the mashed pota.toes


Explanation:
It must be an advertisement for a restaurant. The small print says "steaks, fish, wild game". But it looks like an advertisement for endangered species or something. That's the whole joke, and it's a bit sick, if you ask me.

Melanie Nassar
United States
Local time: 10:15
Native speaker of: English

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agree  John Bowden
5 hrs
agree  Java Cafe
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
mashed potatoes
potato puree


Explanation:
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ileania
Local time: 10:15
Native speaker of: Native in RomanianRomanian, Native in HungarianHungarian

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disagree  Mikhail Kropotov: doesn't answer the question. the question is the meaning of the joke. pls refer to the link given by the asker
2 mins
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
mashed potatoes
accompaniment to meat


Explanation:
The poster is saying let's share the planet with other creatures and give them space, rather than eating them. If we eat them then the only space we are giving them is on our plates (next to the mashed potatoes.

Mark Nathan
France
Local time: 09:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
mashed potatoes
wild animals' place is next to the potatoes on your plate


Explanation:
food retailer's advert

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Note added at 23 mins (2004-11-01 13:56:46 GMT)
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It\'s basically making fun of the notion that \"all god\'s creatures have their place on Earth\" by agreeing with it; yes they do have their place, on our plates!

Konstantin Kisin
United Kingdom
Local time: 08:15
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in RussianRussian
PRO pts in category: 8
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agree  FionaT
17 hrs
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agree  PAS: this is exactly the meaning - classic redneck manly hunter kill'em all thinking.
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
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Explanation:
Mashed potato is a favorite side on the meat dish in America (though this one is in Canada -- much the same).
Like others pointed out, this ad board is conveying very ambiguous message. It sounds like an environmental group stuff, but it is put out by a Saskatoon (a town in Saskachuwan Province in Canada) restaurant who serves steak and stuff. So I guess the ad hopes to entice customers to the place for more business.
Maybe the restaurant's business is suffering because people don't eat meat as much they used to, probablly for environmental concerns.
So it is saying, I guess, it is OK to eat meats with mashed potatoes as God provided us enough room for animals in the wilderness and them to go to our stomach.
Nowadays commercials deliver so much messages they themselves at a loss to what they should say (Overworking copywriters at advertising agencies).

humbird
Native speaker of: Native in JapaneseJapanese, Native in EnglishEnglish
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