In North America, we have McCain hashbrowns that are tiny cubed potatoes you find in the freezer aisle. In Australia, hashbrowns are hashbrowns patties, and we don’t have the cubes. I haven’t been able to find them anywhere.
I was hit with nostalgia this morning, so I made hashbrowns. Just cut up whatever potatoes I had in to 0.5cm cubes and fried them up in the pan. Fried some onions and capsicum on the side and then added together.
Usually I put in a bit of bacon or sausage, but we’re going to a German restaurant for dinner tonight, so I’m saving my fatty meat allocation for later.
Seasoned with Hy’s seasoning salt.
I’m in the United States but this term can be regional. There are parts of the country where you don’t know what will show up on your plate if you order “hash browns.” There are parts that don’t even know diced potatoes are a thing that exist. It’s all rather unstandardized.
Ohhh right. Hmm, maybe more of a Canadian thing, then. I grew up seeing McCain hashbrowns in cubes, so that’s what it is for me. Thanks for teaching me something today. 😊 Maybe I’ll spend a few weekends making different kinds of hashbrowns in the next while!
Even as a Canadian, I never knew these things were called hash browns. Hash browns have always been those things you can get at McDonald’s (patties, as you called em). I thought these were hashed potatoes.
I love regional differences.
Which part of Canada are you from? Maybe hashbrowns are a West Coast thing…
I’m from Ottawa, but admittedly, I didn’t talk to many of my friends and neighbours about potatoes so I don’t really have a good sample to base my assumption on. It could very well have been just my family, haha.
Oh, same. Tbh, all it says is “hashbrowns” on the bag, so that’s what they were to me, haha.
I’m from California and have always seen those cubes ones on menus as “country potatoes.”
Hmm… Maybe it’s just a Lower Mainland BC thing…
All hash browns matter.