Why don't UK people cook meals like this? Yum!

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I am natively from Brazil living in London now, and I make hubby eggs in morning etc. We add what Uk people call "chip sticks" to our meals, makes it more exciting and delicious! He loves it but says he has never seen it before.

Any other Brazillians on here who can share similar?

Im not from Brazil, and I would not add what's basically junk food to a proper meal. Theyre made to be more tasty, with the fats and salts and are very unhealthy.

Possibly because we have a better grasp of nutrition? 😂 I can't think of anything worse than dumping crisps on your morning eggs 🤢

We have crisps sandwiches in the UK which is similar. To me hot scrambled egg with chipsticks sounds a bit weird though. I'd prefer proper chips or hash browns!

This product is well known as a snack food and I've also seen recipes for serving or covering it with, eg, curry sauce.
Some people like it, some don't.
It doesn't strike me as particularly Brazilian, though.
AS a PP says it's not considered very healthy.

Well that is debatable, for sure, about having a better grasp of nutrition.

Oh it's a bit of fun, don't pick on her.

It is healthy because it's basically potatoes though

Take cover, OP!

That sounds yummy OP, I love crispy crunchy textures on things like eggs, you’ll get a lot of Mumsnet judgement on here but if people are eating fried bread, hash browns or chips with their breakfast, they can hardly judge you for chipsticks on a Sunday breakfast! Hope it’s also covered in hot sauce 😃

So are crisps and chips!

Fortunately I don't have to cook any breakfast for my 'hubby'

Are they brazilian?? We had a chef in a ski chalet in France one year who kept making those, from scratch not from a bag, for the kids tea to serve with a small steak or a piece of whitefish or whatever. One night he also made them crisps from scratch. They loved it but I did think it was a little odd.

It’s a form of hash browns. I used to see it in the States a lot. It does go well with a cooked breakfast but in smaller amounts.

Whatever next?

Wotsits on your porridge?

Monster Munch and Shepherds Pie

🤣🤣🤣

I think I love you!

Do you make them at home or are they packaged? I have a Brazilian friend and I have never seen her put this on food.
People have hash browns with eggs which is a similar concept

Yep wait for it....

It's not like UK people are known for eating super healthily, but we prefer our crisps with beer or pop, and would have different forms of potato at breakfast or brunch or more likely toast. The closest to this that I've had would be skinny or string fries in a restaurant, but I wouldn't bother making them at home. I'd have thought chipsticks would either be too hard to fork effectively or go too mushy. My fave egg dish import is shakshuka, but again it's a treat I'd eat out for brunch. Breakfast at home tends to be simple and swift.

Are you actually using Smiths salt and vinegar chip sticks? Or is this a cross-cultural misunderstanding?

It's more likely what you saw in the states were the grated potato for hash browns (which you can buy ready made - the dehydrated ones are feat for camping), not chipsticks

That's possibly what the OP is talking about too, not sure

That's what I wondered, though they look more like supermarket's own which are harder, or like the crisps called French Fries. Smith's chipsticks are wider and more porous, possibly more of a corn snack than spuds.

These are from a packet you can buy them quite cheap from aldi or lidls, but if i'm making a more luxurous high end meal as a weekend treat I'll use ones like this from marks and spencers

I'm pretty sure there's a misunderstanding here. I've eaten this before and it was essentially grated potato, crisped. Not a pack of corn snacks 😂

Yes, that’s it. I’m only on my phone, can’t tell properly from the pic, are they actually shop bought chipsticks?
edited- just cross posted with the OP and know the answer to this now! Not hash browns.

Ive been to Brazil many times and never seen them on a hotel breakfast menu/buffet!

Oh i stand corrected, yikes 😂