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.

  • StickyDango@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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!

    • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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      3 days ago

      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.

        • k0e3@lemmy.ca
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          1 day ago

          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.

          • StickyDango@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
            2·
            6 hours ago

            Oh, same. Tbh, all it says is “hashbrowns” on the bag, so that’s what they were to me, haha.