Comments | hirez: The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast

hirez

The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast

Jan 12, 2011 23:10

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 ( Read more... )

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valkyriekaren January 12 2011, 23:15:50 UTC

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 January 12 2011, 23:23:47 UTC

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

bogwitch64 January 13 2011, 02:40:53 UTC

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

hirez January 13 2011, 08:06:42 UTC

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 January 13 2011, 08:19:37 UTC

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

nmg January 13 2011, 09:14:53 UTC

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

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ivory_goddess January 13 2011, 07:00:09 UTC

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 January 13 2011, 08:29:00 UTC

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 January 13 2011, 12:33:30 UTC

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 January 13 2011, 14:19:49 UTC

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

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cybermule January 13 2011, 08:45:22 UTC

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 January 13 2011, 09:15:31 UTC

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.

(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...)