It is the question that has divided a nation and one that has nigh-on cleaved our United Kingdom in two. Do hash browns “belong” in an English breakfast? For the English Breakfast Society, the answer is clear.
The campaign group, which is dedicated to the history, heritage, and culture of the English breakfast, has now called for hash browns to be blacklisted from the traditional breakfast, and to be replaced by the more traditional bubble and squeak.
“Somebody had to put their foot down,” Guise Bule de Missenden, founder of the English Breakfast Society, said regarding his campaign. “Otherwise we’ll find kebab meat in our English breakfast before long.
“The hash brown — the reconstituted, tater-based fast-food — was popularised by McDonald’s but somehow we
