Hash(ed) Brown(s) (Potatoes)

[George Thompson]

>From Barry's post of July 28:
30 November  1892, Indiana (PA) Progress, pg. 7:
"Mrs. Rorer gave her audience a  shock the other day while lecturing
at the
Health and Food Exhibition in New  Haven, Conn., by prophesying dire
disaster as
a result of indulgence in “hashed  brown potatoes.” She had visited
insane
asylums, she said, and found that many  of the inmates had been
addicted to the
use of potatoes fried after being  boiled. Ergo, potatoes cooked in
this way
appear to produce insanity."

I'm convinced.  No more for me.  Though I was never an addict.

GAT

George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.

----- Original Message -----
From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
Date: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:42 pm
Subject: Hash(ed) Brown(s) (Potatoes)

> "Hash browns" were served in the Dominican Republic, so I thought
> I'd
> re-check "hash(ed) brown potatoes."
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_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/hash_browns/_
>
(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/hash_browns/)
> ...
> "Hash browns” (or “hashed browns") were originally called, in
> full,  “
> hash(ed) brown potatoes.” They are cited in the New York World in
> 1888.
>
>
> (Oxford English Dictionary)
> hash browns chiefly U.S., =  hashed brown potatoes s.v. HASHED
> ppl. a. b;
> more fully, hash-brown(ed)  potatoes;
> 1917 I. C. B. ALLEN Mrs. Allen’s Cook Bk. 400 *Hash Browned
> Potatoes. 1948
> H. L. MENCKEN Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 388 Of late there has been a
> strong
> tendency..to omit the -ed ending… Examples: mash potatoes, hash-
> brown  potatoes,
> [etc.].
>
>
> November 1888, Current Literature, pg. 402:
> Lunching With A Man. New York World
> (...)
> Scalloped chicken,  with hashed brown potatoes, lobster salad and
> two
> chocolate eclairs, were  destined to pass before his agonized
> stomach before a halt
> was called and the  girl with the delicate appetite had proven her
> lack.
>
>
> 30 November  1892, Indiana (PA) Progress, pg. 7:
> Mrs. Rorer gave her audience a  shock the other day while
> lecturing at the
> Health and Food Exhibition in New  Haven, Conn., by prophesying
> dire disaster as
> a result of indulgence in “hashed  brown potatoes.” She had
> visited insane
> asylums, she said, and found that many  of the inmates had been
> addicted to the
> use of potatoes fried after being  boiled. Ergo, potatoes cooked
> in this way
> appear to produce insanity.
>
>
> 28 January 1894, Los Angeles Times, pg. 24:
> He is fond of  cold ham and turkey, and one of his side dishes is
> usually
> hashed brown potatoes  served up with a poached egg upon them.
>
>
> 28 December 1895, Fort Wayne  (IN) Evening Sentinel, pg. 4?:
> “I’d trade it for a porterhouse steak  and some hash brown
> potatoes.”
> (Writer Eugene Field—ed.)
>
>
> 20  December 1922, Fitchburg (MA) Sentinel, pg. 4:
> A spud raiser may be  down, but he is never out, apparently, and
> the
> epicureans are helping out all  they can by intensive orders for
> hash browns and a la
> Delmonicos.—Malden News.
>
>
> 25 April 1926, Modesto (CA) News-Herald, pg. ?:
> Sometimes, dog tired, he dropped off his engine in the yards,
> cleaned up at
> a pump outside the station and are pork sausages, hashed browns,
> coffee and
> sinkers at his mother’s supper counter before they both cut home
> through the
> stubble of sage brush between the station and the one-story shack.
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