Let’s hash out what belongs in a full English breakfast

Hash browns are ‘an American invasive item’. Photograph: Getty/Image Source

I was an Airbnb super host for a couple of years, offering a B&B with a traditional Isle of Wight breakfast. This included eggs from my hens (often collected by the guests), locally sourced bacon, sausages, tomatoes, bread, butter and milk. Guests could also have honey made by one of my friends and homemade marmalade. The only less than five-star review I got was from a woman who said my boring breakfasts would be improved by the inclusion of hash browns (Pass notes, 3 April). Frozen, I imagine. Not that I’m bitter.
Helen Keats
Brighstone, Isle of Wight

• Hash browns seem to have become a regular feature in the full English breakfast. But they are indeed an American invasive item. They are the grey squirrel of the breakfast world.
Malcolm Rodgers
Weston-super-Mare, Somerset

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