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The canned meat family, of course, gets no respect, containing as it does Spam, Vienna sausages, and dog food, but some people find it quite tasty. When I was a kid, the standard way to prepare canned hash was to fry it in a pan with some eggs.
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I’ve cooked in some restaurants that served canned corned beef hash (surprisingly popular around here) and we cooks usually refer to the meal as “Alpo and eggs”.
Canned corned beef hash (preferably Mary Kitchen) is a treat for me. I usually eat it with a block of muenster cheese, but recently decided to fry eggs on top of it like at the diner. Yummy. And Kalhoun, I like the cripsy part you scrape off the pan.
Ah, gigi, you too know the greatness that is Mary Kitchen. I always go for the roast beef, though, with plenty of onions stirred in. Food of the ogs.
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I like the cripsy part you scrape off the pan.
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Ah, yes. The BCBs are the best part.
The roast beef hash, with the onions, and a cup or so of beef gravy (home made, but canned in a pinch) reduced down to the original consistency.
Put that in an oven proof casserole dish, make a rim of hash around the edge of the pan, break in a couple of eggs bake at 400°F till the whites are just set, shredded cheddar cheese on top optional.
Is there any brand of RBH other than Mary Kitchen?
CMC fnord!
mmmmmm.
Mary Kitchen. Oooze it out of the can, schmere it around the frying pan, and mix in an egg. Cook it until it’s well browned. So, ya know those crispy good parts? It’s ALL that! then, if you are feeling glutonous, top it with an over easy egg.
Looks like dog food. Tastes like heaven.
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Is there any brand of RBH other than Mary Kitchen?
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Yep Hormel is the backup in stores that don’t carry Mary Kitchen.
Just never order it in a restaurant. Most are none too careful about what gets chopped up in the meat, and a big chaw of gristle can make you hurk your breakfast all over your companion.
Canned RBH, like many canned meat products, smells kinda rude when you open the can. The fat rises to the top of the can. Once you get it hot, it smells just fine. Open the bottom of the can, if possible.
I like mine with a fried egg on top. Oh, yeah. 
Since this hasbasically turned into a recipe thread…
On the occasion that we go out for dinner on a Saturday night, I always order the grossly oversized prime rib special. I only eat about half of it, the other half comes home in a doggy bag for Sunday morning Prime Rib Hash.
Coarsely chopped red potatoes and white onion are fried in butter until the taters are beginning to brown, then the cubed leftover prime rib goes in along with a healthy shake of Penzey’s Old World seasoning (seasoned salt will substitute).
Top that with a couple sunny-side up eggs…there is no better breakfast in this world.
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[QUOTE=gigi]
Yep Hormel is the backup in stores that don’t carry Mary Kitchen.
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But Hormel MAKES Mary Kitchen. http://www.hormel.com/templates/knowledge/knowledge.asp?catitemid=90&id=242
Oh - and Mr2U had it for lunch yesterday - fried till it’s crunchy with a fried egg over it. That’s his favorite food, I think.
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I opened a can of Hormel corned beef hash a couple months ago (for the first time in many years). 50% of it stuck to the pan. Oddly, it smelled better than I remember. I’m a big fan of corned beef, but I prefer mine on a Reuben sandwich.
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When I was growing up, Hormel’s canned hash (the roast beef one, not the corned beef) was what I ate when I wanted to treat myself. But it smells like canned dog food – Ken-L-Ration, to be precise.
It does stick to the skillet unless you melt a little butter in it first.
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But Hormel MAKES Mary Kitchen. http://www.hormel.com/templates/knowledge/knowledge.asp?catitemid=90&id=242
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You’re quite right. They recently shifted from a “Mary Kitchen” centric label to a HORMEL Mary Kitchen label. Hmm…now I’m trying to remember what the brand at KMart is. And it may have been corned beef only, not roast beef.
Upon further search, it’s Armour. Inferior to Hormel/Mary Kitchen.
Speaking of Hormel, their DiLusso brand of sliced meat for sandwiches is excellent. Roast beef that you’d swear came off a prime rib, turkey seasoned with sun-dried tomato, Black Forest ham. Yum. I was surprised when the butcher told me it was a Hormel product. It’s as close to “gourmet” as I can get around here.
Like others here, our homemade hash was made with leftover roast beef, leftover boiled potatoes chopped up, and onions. Gotta let it get crispy and slightly browned. Serve with ketchup.
[QUOTE=Zsofia]
The Southern barbeque hash I mentioned above is not (to my knowledge) fried. No skillets about it. You dish it out of a cauldron.
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Hmmm - that sounds suspiciously like what we in Georgia call Brunswick Stew!
Never heard called hash in over five decades on this planet.
Y’all do things differently next door in SC! 
Man, now I’m hungry.
I love me a can of Corned Beef Hash. I think Sunday morning I’m going to fry an egg up and try that.
My wife calls it dog food, and always gives me crap for eating it. Heheheh…
If the in-laws have any Corned Beef Briskit left over next weekend, I’ll maybe make up some from scratch. That sounds good too.
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Hmmm - that sounds suspiciously like what we in Georgia call Brunswick Stew!
Never heard called hash in over five decades on this planet.
Y’all do things differently next door in SC!
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No, no! We have Brunswick stew too. Totally different. I like Brunswick stew. I know what goes in it. Nobody knows what goes in hash.
When I was a child, before I became a vegetarian, I was sometimes subjected to canned hash. It was some sort of meat and I think potato, and it smelled EXACTLY like canned dog food. Never having tasted dog food, I can’t compare the flavor, but I can’t imagine dog food being much worse.
Just popping in to say that this thread motivated me to pick up a can of Hereford brand corned beef hash, from Brazil, at Honest Ed’s today. Hadn’t bought canned hash in years – wish we could get canned roast beef hash in Canada, sounds great.