While New York can't take credit for creating the breakfast staple we know it to be today, New York can absolutely take credit for popularizing the hash brown.
If you plan on eating the frozen hash browns in your freezer, be careful! The little white chunks mixed in might be... Golf balls. No joke.
McCain Foods USA just recalled Roundy's and Harris Teeter hash browns because, , "despite our stringent supply standards, golf balls may have been inadvertently harvested with potatoes used to make this product...