I’m going to the store, and now instead of something healthy I’m buying a can of hash. I’m all about frying the hash until its just crispy little nuggets and then crack a few eggs on top, throw on a lid and steam until the whites are cooked and the yolks are runny.
With cheese for the win.
And it’s the only thing I’ll have HP Sauce with.
Corned beef hash at the Carnegie Deli in NYC. That’s the real stuff. That’s a 10.
Canned stuff is a 2 or 3.
I made it myself for the first time using expensive(great) corned beef, using the directions in Mark Bittman’s cook book. It turned out to be better than any I’ve had in 20 years of eating in hash houses in Akron/Cleveland/D.C. Most restaurant corned beef has is a 4-6 to my taste.
Well I’m eating the canned stuff right now, fried to a crisp with three eggs. It is good.
We have a pretty big fishing fleet here so our grocery stores carry a lot of bulk goods. In my quest for Halloween candy and corned beef hash I walked down the bulk item isle and spotted, to my wonder, a #10 can of Libby’s corned beef hash.
A picture instantly popped into my head of that same #10 can, in my fridge, with an old fashioned ice cream scoop resting in a pile of hash, waiting for my return.
I couldn’t decide if the image was a beautiful day dream, or a Halloween nightmare so I refused the impulse and decided on two regular cans.
In case you’re interested the two regular cans equal : 1,560 calories, 96g of fat, and 4000mg of sodium
Kind of makes me want to take up bulimia
Spam comes pretty close. I bought a few cans of variously-flavored Spam (with cheez, Tabasco, smoky) and have been doing fry ups the past few weeks – can of Spam, some tamari (goes really well for the salt-fest) and some of the Habanero or chipotle tabasco, fried up pretty crispy. I pour off as much of the grease as possible (it’s still plenty greasy).
Well, I supppose when you take the blue can you can believe whatever you want to believe…
Missed the edit window: Oh yeah, the poll. I voted Yum. I like it okay out of a can, but the only time I get it that way is at a restaurant where I’m having breakfast (which I haven’t done for a while). I tend to make my own, using leftovers from a corned beef and cabbage dinner. I don’t put cabbage in it, but I do make sure I made plenty of potatoes and carrots to go with it. Couple of boiled potatoes, a carrot, about a cup and a half of chopped corned beef, half a chopped onion, and I’m ready to start cookin’.
Food of the Gods.
Can’t get enough. It’s one of my favorite breakfast foods, especially with poached eggs.
I make two slices of toasted bread and butter stacks- open faced sandwiches of Hash and 2 over easy eggs… I pierce the yolk right before eating on the halfshell.
Imagine a heavily buttered, seperately fried potato, pepper, and onion homefries fried for a few minutes with chopped whole Lobster… Serve it on wonderbread with a fried egg… Hollandaise BBQ Sauce to top… include a squeezer of hllandaise BBQ for all tables a t breakfast… never know when somebody might like to squirt a little on their eggs and biscuits.
Lobster hash… why not?
We love corned beef hash (crispy) with poached eggs at our house, but am surprised at the results of this poll.
Normally when I mention it to anyone else they turn up their noses and many say this is old-fashion food - as if we ate gruel.
Oh, man, love the stuff. Haven’t had it in ages, though. I even enjoy the canned version, but it’s all gotta come with runny eggs of one type or another (sunny side up, over easy, poached, etc.) because the best part is mixing that mashy goodness with the yolk.
Love the crappy canned stuff, love home made. Love corned beef, love potatoes. YUM.
My only problem is that it doesn’t always agree with my intestine. Of course, part of that is because I always wind up eating a whole can instead of just half (the serving size).
But I did notice this time that it has that same bitter taste that can be amplified in some people. The same people who don’t like hominy or tamales. Or people who have metallic tastes in their mouth because of withdrawal (i.e. me not long ago).
Did it come with a side of Spam? 
Trader Joes sells a pretrty good CBH in aluminum pouches (inside a cardboard box). From what I’m able to recall, the nutrition info wasn’t even that evil looking, though I’m sure the sodium content was probably higher than desirable. I will purchase some this week, along with eggs.
I voted Yum because fresh is freaking fantastic. I can’t hang with the canned stuff though, it tastes to me like what I imagine dog food would taste like.
My wife, on the other hand, would list canned corned beef hash as one of her top 5 comfort foods along with instant mashed potatoes, Dinty Moore Beef Stew, and kraft mac and cheese. (My meatloaf rounds out her top 5 list and I am not sure if that is a compliment or not.)
The canned stuff is pretty bad: 420 calories a cup.