Browns' Jameis Winston rejects mashed potatoes as a Thanksgiving dish, doesn't even want it around

Cleveland Browns backmost Jameis Winston won't devour conscionable anything, apparently. 

The backup, whose career has been associated with nutrient successful the media aft a assemblage ungraded involving allegedly stolen seafood and a heavier assemblage build, revealed his distaste for mashed potatoes connected Wednesday. 

Winston said mashed potatoes is simply a crockery that helium doesn't adjacent privation radical to bring to Thanksgiving, successful an interrogation connected the "BIG PLAY" podcast. 

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"I person this happening where, delight don't bring mashed potatoes to Thanksgiving," Winston said, denying the conception that the crockery is simply a "staple" of the Thanksgiving meal. 

"I truly don't deliberation it's a staple, it's mashed potatoes," Winston said. "It's not a Thanksgiving meal… I would truly conscionable person a baked potato." 

Winston's statement astir mashed potatoes not being a Thanksgiving crockery would beryllium unfounded to some. But determination is immoderate humanities contention to enactment his claim. 

Mashed potatoes was not a crockery astatine the archetypal Thanksgiving astatine Plymoth Rock, Massachusetts, successful 1621, according to aggregate accounts. In fact, potatoes didn't adjacent travel to continental North America until settlers brought them to Virginia astir the aforesaid time. 

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Mashed potatoes and gravy (iStock)

Potatoes originated successful the Andean portion of South America, specifically being domesticated by the Inca people, and were brought to North America by European settlers centuries aft Christopher Columbus's celebrated voyage successful 1492. 

However, potatoes rapidly became a communal crockery astatine Thanksgiving dinners successful the 1860s. 

The fashionable Civil War epoch writer and writer Josepha Hale campaigned for Congress to officially admit Thanksgiving. She is considered the idiosyncratic astir liable for the instauration of the nationalist vacation successful the U.S. beyond New England, earning her the nickname "Mother of Thanksgiving." 

Her writings often included mashed potatoes arsenic a crockery astatine the Thanksgiving meal table, and the immense bulk of American families person followed that precedent ever since. 

Cleveland Browns backmost Jameis Winston is tackled by Saints antiaircraft extremity Chase Young and antiaircraft tackle Bryan Bresee successful New Orleans, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

A 2021 IPSOS survey found that mashed potatoes are the astir communal broadside crockery astatine Thanksgiving feasts, with 77% of households including it. 

Winston's proposition of baked potatoes was not adjacent included successful the survey. 

Winston antecedently revealed his apical 10 favourite fast-food restaurants successful a societal media video successful September – 1. Chick-fil-A 2. McDonald’s 3. Dunkin’ Donuts 4. Chipotle 5. Krispy Kreme 6. Papa John’s Pizza 7. Pizza Hut 8. Subway 9. Arby’s 10. Panda Express. 

He declined to see chains similar KFC oregon Popeyes, which are among the astir fashionable fast-food restaurants to service mashed potatoes. 

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Browns backmost Jameis Winston passes against the Los Angeles Chargers connected Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, successful Cleveland. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

Winston's sensation successful nutrient has been the taxable of sum dating backmost to his Heisman assemblage vocation astatine Florida State University. He was issued a civilian citation for shoplifting connected April 29, 2014, aft allegedly walking retired of a Tallahassee, Florida, supermarket without paying for $32 worthy of crab legs and crawfish.

Winston denied the allegations successful a connection the pursuing April up of that year's NFL Draft, wherever helium was taken with the No. 1 wide prime by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. 

"I went to the supermarket with the intent to acquisition meal but made a unspeakable mistake for which I'm taking afloat responsibility. In a infinitesimal of youthful ignorance, I walked retired of the store without paying for 1 of my items," Winston said. 

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