Recently I had breakfast with my friend at McDonalds. I ordered muffins, hash browns and coffee for both of us. My friend, a strict vegetarian limited himself to muffins and coffee and declined to have the hash browns. I was curious to know why. May be he is on diet. No, he told me that hash browns are made of chicken and he wouldn’t have any of it. I told him it is made of potato and qualifies as vegetarian diet. But still he was not convinced.

His conviction made me doubt its ingredients. So I came home and made a search on Google’s (where else can I go?). I typed in McDonald’s hash browns and hit search. Look what I had found!

The very first entry directs me to a page in myspace.com!. Clever marketers at McDonald’s have created a profile for Hash Brown and gave it a permanent space in history along with Napoleon, George Washington and other 2008 presidential hopefuls.

If you see the images below you will know the reason why.

To me to include hash browns in a social networking site meant for submitting interactive profiles, blogs, groups, photos of friends is a stretch. But then McDonald’s Ad Agency and Hash Brown’s fans will pick up a fight with me for treating it as a non-entity.

So I quietly withdraw and say I love their friend Hash Brown as much as they do, but only would like to eat it.