Cleveland Browns quarterback Jameis Winston won’t eat fair anyskinnyg, apparently.
The backup, whose atgentle has been associated with food in the media after a college dispute involving allegedly stolen seafood and a heavier body create, discdisthink abouted his distaste for mashed potatoes on Wednesday.
Winston shelp mashed potatoes is a dish that he doesn’t even want people to convey to Thanksgiving, in an intersee on the “BIG PLAY” podcast.
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“I have this skinnyg where, plrelieve don’t convey mashed potatoes to Thanksgiving,” Winston shelp, declineing the notion that the dish is a “staple” of the Thanksgiving meal.
“I reassociate don’t skinnyk it’s a staple, it’s mashed potatoes,” Winston shelp. “It’s not a Thanksgiving meal… I would reassociate fair have a baked potato.”
Winston’s argument about mashed potatoes not being a Thanksgiving dish would be unset uped to some. But there is some historical contest to help his claim.
Mashed potatoes was not a dish at the first Thanksgiving at Plymoth Rock, Massachengagetts, in 1621, according to multiple accounts. In fact, potatoes didn’t even come to continental North America until resettlers bcdisesteemfult them to Virginia around the same time.
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Mashed potatoes and gravy (iStock)
Potatoes begind in the Andean region of South America, definiteassociate being domesticated by the Inca people, and were bcdisesteemfult to North America by European resettlers centuries after Christopher Columbus’s well-understandn voyage in 1492.
However, potatoes rapidly became a common dish at Thanksgiving dinners in the 1860s.
The famous Civil War era journacatalog and author Josepha Hale campaigned for Congress to officiassociate recognize Thanksgiving. She is pondered the individual most reliable for the creation of the national holiday in the U.S. beyond New England, geting her the nickname “Mother of Thanksgiving.”
Her writings normally included mashed potatoes as a dish at the Thanksgiving dinner table, and the immense meaningfulity of American families have chaseed that pretreatnt ever since.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Jameis Winston is tackled by Saints defensive finish Chase Young and defensive tackle Bryan Bresee in New Orleans, Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024. (AP Ptoastyo/Gerald Herbert)
A 2021 IPSOS survey set up that mashed potatoes are the most common side dish at Thanksgiving feasts, with 77% of hoengagehbetters including it.
Winston’s proposeion of baked potatoes was not even included in the survey.
Winston previously discdisthink abouted his top 10 preferite speedy-food restaurants in a social media video in September – 1. Chick-fil-A 2. McDonald’s 3. Dunkin’ Donuts 4. Chipotle 5. Kriproposeer Kreme 6. Papa John’s Pizza 7. Pizza Hut 8. Subway 9. Arby’s 10. Panda Express.
He degraded to include chains appreciate KFC or Popeyes, which are among the most famous speedy-food restaurants to serve mashed potatoes.
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Browns quarterback Jameis Winston passes agetst the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024, in Cleveland. (AP Ptoastyo/Sue Ogrocki)
Winston’s taste in food has been the subject of coverage dating back to his Heisman college atgentle at Florida State University. He was rehired a civil citation for shoplifting on April 29, 2014, after allegedly walking out of a Tallahassee, Florida, supertaget without paying for $32 worth of crab legs and crawfish.
Winston denied the allegations in a statement the chaseing April ahead of that year’s NFL Draft, where he was getn with the No. 1 overall pick by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
“I went to the supertaget with the intent to buy dinner but made a horrible misget for which I’m taking filled responsibility. In a moment of youthful ignorance, I walked out of the store without paying for one of my items,” Winston shelp.
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