The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast

[hirez]

I'm not one to bang on about food. I make efforts to eat what's put in front of me, if only because I was a hatefully picky child and still cringe at the memory, and I suspect that serious foodie malarkey would be something of a waste.

However, I am rather partial to a good fried breakfast. Plus tea and toast and why can't you get hash browns in this country?

Anyway. I was watching summat-or-other on one of the channels-that-taste-forgot in the netherworld beween BBC4 and British Eurosport and yet-a-bloody-gain there's a scene in some US alleged drama where someone's spent yea-long boshing out a sensible brekker for the rest of the people concerned, who all mumble something about work or school or not being hungry and then piss off out of it towards the next dramatic happening.

What a bunch of complete bastards.

I had a swift grovel (no, really. It only took a half-hour) on TVTropes, but it must be like wallpaper and they don't notice it's happening.

No wonder these people's lives are so rammed with drama they get followed around by film crews. If I were walking around and/or trying to do my job with that little blood-sugar, I'd be falling off things and/or making poorer life-choices than usual, too.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

It's like those bastards who walk out of pubs without finishing their pints because they've heard a rumour that their Shirl might have had an affair with their brother 20 years ago. Wasteful, is what it is. There's children starving in Africa would be glad of a nutritious half of John Smiths.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Actors, right? Bunch of bastards who can't even finish their beer. Pitiful.

[bogwitch64.livejournal.com]

You can't get hash browns?? I'd stage a revolt.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Well, you can get these triangular things that seem to have been deep-fried. They can call them hash browns as much as they like, but that's not what they are.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

You can't get cornbread, either, unless you make it yourself. It's a tragedy.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

Have you considering buying rosti instead? Far closer to the US hash brown than the deep fried potato nuggets that we get.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

And for that matter, what's wrong with bubble and squeak?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

We don't do the traditional 'Roast Sunday, sliced leftovers Monday, cottage pie Tuesday, etc', which is likely a bit of a shame.

[ivory-goddess.livejournal.com]

Beats me how so many US-ians are (apparently) obese given as how, judging by the tv, none of them ever finish a meal and indeed most of them never seem to start one!

Mccains sell frozen hash browns...

[girfan.livejournal.com]

The frozen hash browns are nothing like the hash browns one gets in the US.
This is what you get when ordering in US restaurants:
http://www.ehow.com/how_13821_make-hash-browns.html

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Good article!

I like hash browns, but just about the only time I make them are when camping, and when I've remembered to bring the grater. It's one of the easiest ways to cook potatoes in a field, in under a day.

The tip about the salad spinner is a good one.

[hsb.livejournal.com]

But that is rosti, near as dammit, as someone said upthread, which you can get in boxes here.

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[quercus.livejournal.com]

You can also buy it in potatoes!

[hirez.livejournal.com]

... Which one can grow in nearly any garden! You modern people and your shops. I don't know.

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Morrisons do hash browns, I think. And are helpful with substitutions. I can't manage without breakfast, and I'm now old enough to know that

[nemesis-to-go.livejournal.com]

Grub and booze is always a problem in plays and things. All that browsing and sluicing holds up the action, so the writers have to find a way of seeing it off sharpish.

For the same reason, nobody on telly ever smokes a fag beyond the first 5mm.

In the 1920s A. A. Milne wrote a wonderful piece on the logistical dilemmas of the modern playwright which goes into all this stuff, and it's as true now as it was then.

Now that Google has assimilated every out-of-copyright book, you can read it on the web (http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bzI7yrYi_OsC&pg=PA35&dq=a+a+milne+the+complete+dramatist&hl=en&ei=AL8uTYqjIMWXhQf71v3oCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&sqi=2&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false).

(I recommend all that book, by the way - the anti-war stuff shows a dark side to A. A. Milne's humour which you definitely don't get from Pooh...)

[diffrentcolours]

Maybe you're not gothic enough for hash browns?