An age-old debate was reignited online after the fast-food giant unveiled the latest addition to its Australian menu.
The announcement ignited debate over the item's name, with some calling it a potato cake or potato fritter.When McDonald's Australia announced the latest addition to its menu, it reignited an age-old debate: is it a potato scallop, cake, or fritter?
In South Australia, it is most commonly referred to as a fritter, while Western Australia and the Northern Territory appear to go between the terms. "You would think a company like this could call something by its correct name, potato cakes," Chris Mayer wrote on the McDonald's Instagram post. Queenslanders also use the word doona when referring to a type of bedding, while other states alternate between duvet and quilt.
"With the potato cake being used more in Victoria whereas scallop is used in NSW and Queensland, to pinpoint why that happened is quite difficult, but if you go over to South Australia and look at their use of potato fritter, that's a little bit more understandable because of the German immigration that happened in Adelaide and South Australia," he said.
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