mashed avocados

Nah, you don't eat mashed taters with thin crisps (corn or otherwise). You could, but typically people don't.

Do people eat whole bowls of guacamole? Just like spoonfuls into your mouth?

As one of the 7 people who dislikes avocados - that seems horrifying.

More like guac is American hummus, considering chickpeas are one of the oldest domesticated plants we know of.

There was a can of refried beans that proudly stated “Mexican mashed potatoes”

Pizza is just an open-face sandwich. Like a chili melt. Same thing.

Guacamole isn't eaten on its own or with some form of gravy. Mashed potatoes are. One can argue about open face sandwich vs. burrito and the addition of each to their respective cuisine but that's a hard sell.

FWIW, Avocado toast doesn't factor into the discussion any more then a baked potato would imo.

Melt a big knob of butter in the middle of all of them and inject it my veins. drool

Mushy peas are just British guacamole

Except that Potatoes are from the new world....

I mean, im of the 'poptart is basically a dessert calzone' persuasion, so... yeah, sure why not.

There are differences, but basically yes.

Instead of garnishing with pico you garnish with bacon bits.

No because avocado is a berry but potato is a tuber

It's times like this that I worry about legalizing weed

As long as they are both chunky, I'll allow it.

In the soup, salad, or sandwich alignment it would be soup and so would guacamole.

Hard to say if it's Irish. It could be. But:

First printed recipe: English author Hannah Glasse published the earliest known recipe for modern mashed potatoes in her 1747 book, The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy.

The recipe: She instructed cooks to boil and peel potatoes, then vigorously mash them with butter, salt, and milk.

Obviously Britain and Ireland are very close to one another, and someone being English doesn't mean they don't have Irish parentage or tutelage or friends. (Even in those days.)

Britain + Ireland are also called "The British isles," so unfortunately for the Irish, even if we disambiguate to include the possibility of it being an Irish creation, it will still be called a "British" dish - which merely makes it look like it's English again, to most people.

Bonus points for having O'Brian in there.

Seeing that both vegetables were part of the Columbian exchange and therefore have no pre 1500 European roots it's improper to call any potato preparation 'Irish'.