Good Morning Britain has found itself in hot water with viewers after a fun Friday debate faced criticism. Ben Shephard and Charlotte Hawkins were back at the helm of the ITV news programme as they rounded off the week (on March 31).
And to bring some light-heartedness to viewers' day, the hosts led a debate on whether or not hash browns should be removed from the traditional English Breakfast. It comes after an organisation claimed it didn't belong on the classic fry-up.
Charlotte explained: "Some breaking breakfast news for you today! The most important topic of the day, we're talking about English breakfasts, because in the newspapers there are calls to ban hash browns to be removed from your full English breakfast.
"The hash brown has been a part of the full English since the sort of mid-80s since McDonald's bought it in. They've since come to the fore, but there are now calls from the English Breakfast Society - yes, there is such a thing - to ban hash browns because they say it doesn't soak up enough of the juices."
She then added: "They say that you need a bubble and squeak type potato instead. So, it's about bringing back the bubble." And Ben was invested: "I really am intrigued by this," he said before confessing: "I'm not a fan of a hash brown. Personally, I'd much rather have a bubble."
But not all GMB viewers were impressed with the discussion and took to social media to complain, with one viewer branding it 'useless'. @Carolin55162028 tweeted: "@GMB Is this really the most important thing to talk about when so many can only dream about ever affording a proper breakfast!?"
@bestmanintown1 posted: "@GMB Is there really not more important things to discuss like things that will affect people, everyone likes different things with their breakfast if u love hash browns have them if u don't like them don't, does it really need a segment on gmb to tell us that?" @SimonDalling added: "@GMB I am not interested in such trivial matters."
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