Can someone please help me???

[luckies4me]

I am having a bit of a debate with my significant other. I sent him to the store in search of home fries. Cut, cubed potatoes. So I have a question. When you hear the word home fries what do you think of? Do you think of hash browns? When I hear hash browns I think of sliced potatoes, usually served as a clump with a breakfast meal. Home fries are cubed, either with onions of peppers etc. Just curious.

[Karen]

Home fries I think of as thickly cut french fries, like steak fries, I guess. Hash browns are the cubes potatoes fried in a pan with maybe bacon and onion, or those kinda gross "patties" served at fast-food places that are simply shredded potatoes.

[luckies4me]

Really? Cubed potatoes are home fries lol. I sent him the wiki link for clarification. And yes, when I think of hash browns I think of the fast food type shredded potatoes. I've never heard anyone think of french fries when they say home fries. lol. Thick fries are steak fries.

[Sowa]

I usually think home fries are the thicker square potatoes. Hash browns are either the really small squares or the rectangle potato patties...
(like this:

[caseysmom]

I agree with Karen, homefries are extra thick french fries...there is a "fries" in homefries lol.

[luckies4me]

Thick french fries are just thick french fries or steak fries. Homefries are these. It's strange that people don't know what I'm talking about. lol.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s...GOvRiALr96mpCA

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/herbies-home-fries/

http://smittenkitchen.com/2008/11/home-fries/

Here's a video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WPXUZ5mLjo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjgG82KOlVU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFR5TnRlQGA

[beeniesmom]

Home fries I think of as thickly cut french fries, like steak fries, I guess. Hash browns are the cubes potatoes fried in a ban with maybe bacon and onion. or those kinda gross "patties" served at fast-food places that are simply shredded potatoes.

I agree.

[happylabs]

I think of home fries as the cubed fried potatoes like you do, mostly eaten as a breakfast item. Hash browns they have at Perkins and are shredded potatoes which in my opinion they never brown up enough so I don't order them any longer. Hash browns are also the formed patties of shredded potatoes that McDonald's sells. But hash is definitely shredded.

If your significant other is a man, never send them to the store. They will mess it up on purpose so you don't send them again.

[Scooter's Mom]

Home fries to me are like steak fries; a thick cut french fry almost.

Hash brown can be two different things - a hash brown patty like they serve at a fast food place (you can also buy them and pop them in a toaster, or cook them in an oven) or hash brown potatoes, which are shredded and fried in a skillet.

Either way - yum!

[Lady's Human]

I hate to disagree with my esteemed sister, but Home Fries are cubes of potato fried in a pan or on a griddle with various and sundry things added in, onions, bacon, peppers, etc.

Hash Browns are shredded potatoes fried on a grill.

The things McD's sells as hash browns are oversized 'tater tots.

[luckies4me]

I think of home fries as the cubed fried potatoes like you do, mostly eaten as a breakfast item. Hash browns they have at Perkins and are shredded potatoes which in my opinion they never brown up enough so I don't order them any longer. Hash browns are also the formed patties of shredded potatoes that McDonald's sells. But hash is definitely shredded.

If your significant other is a man, never send them to the store. They will mess it up on purpose so you don't send them again.

LOL. Too funny!

[redbird]

Home fries I think of as thickly cut french fries, like steak fries, I guess. Hash browns are the cubes potatoes fried in a ban with maybe bacon and onion. or those kinda gross "patties" served at fast-food places that are simply shredded potatoes.

That!!!