fauxtato
nounUK /fəʊˈteɪtəʊ/ · US /foʊˈteɪtoʊ/
Etymology Blend of faux (“artificial, fake”) + potato.
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Cauliflower when used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
- One recipe is to smash cauliflower and mix it with butter and cream to make mashed almost-potatoes. […] For the first week of the Atkins diet I walked around in a zombie-like state occasionally mumbling to myself. “Meat good.” “Bread bad.” “Got fauxtato?”2004 June 17, J.W. Shults, “Please pass the fauxtatoes”, in Woodford County Journal, volume 138, number 25, Eureka, Ill., →OCLC, page 4A, column 5: