A while ago I wanted to tell people on /int/ about Rösti and Kartoffelpuffer, which are German versions of hash browns. But then I discovered there is no exact definition what qualifies as Rösti and what as Kartoffelpuffer, and that there seems to be a hash brown continuum, like a dialect continuum, all over the German speaking countries.
I love them with apple sauce, with horseradish and salmon, with mushroom sauce...