Food journalist Felicity Cloake believes the likes of black pudding, tomatoes and mushrooms all belong in a fry-up, but not hash browns - although she admits it has become a sight to which she may have to become accustomed. The ingredients included in a fry-up can cause controversy, and not everybody sees eye to eye on the matter. That’s the reason we’re saying no to hash browns. “We’re all about bringing back the bubble. “The hash brown - the reconstituted, tater-based fast-food – was popularised by McDonald’s but somehow we now find it in our English breakfast. “Otherwise we’ll find kebab meat in our English breakfast before long. “Somebody had to put their foot down,” Guise Bule de Missenden, founder of the English Breakfast Society, said regarding his campaign. Their call for it to be removed from fry-ups comes despite a 2017 poll from YouGov finding that 60 per cent of the British public believes that hash browns are the most important part of the staple meal. The campaign group, which is dedicated to the history, heritage, and culture of the English breakfast according to The Times, says hash browns have become become popularised by fast-food chain McDonald's. The English Breakfast Society believes the potato-based food has no place in a proper fry-up - and is calling for bubble and squeak to be included instead. An authority on the full English breakfast is calling for hash browns to be removed from a fry-up.

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