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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Lifestyle
Nicholas Jordan

Australian supermarket hash brown taste test: the clear winner isn’t technically a hash brown

A man aged in his 30s with his mouth open as hands shove a variety of hash browns into his mouth
‘I believed hash browns to be one of those rare foods that is never bad. Boy was I wrong’: Nicholas Jordan reveals a key finding of his taste test of supermarket hash browns. Photograph: Isabella Moore/The Guardian

When I was in high school, this is what I would eat for breakfast: four cevapi (small Balkan sausages), four eggs, and four hash browns. It was awesome. Twenty years later my consumption of breakfast fry-ups may have dipped but my love of hash browns has not. Before this taste test, I believed hash browns to be one of those rare foods that is never bad.

Boy was I wrong. Turns out hash browns are like Red Hot Chili Peppers songs – some are universally loved, but others I never again want to experience.

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