Potato cakes at Mick and Dee Simms’ Pyramid Hill Bakery and Cafe have been given top marks by those in the know.
A random visit from the Potato Cake Appreciation Society last week has seen the store’s cakes score highly on the taste test.
“On this quiet Wednesday arvo a few people darted in and out of the business and I was soon on my way with an oil soaked brown paper bag,” the connoisseur has since told fellow fans.
“These fresh and hot discus chips didn’t look like the average, cheap pre-produced cakes, as a crunchy yet flaky batter bubbled over the surface of the cake.
“Each cake was still slippery with oil, and each bite revealed a single slice of potato in the centre, fresh and fluffy, well cooked and soft. These were generous in size and width, and thickened bubbles of batter added textural extra crunch.
“Not many shops can be a town’s cafe, baker, pizzeria, and fish and chip shop, but these guys are doing a pretty good job.”
The reviewer rated Pyramid Hill’s potato cakes highly at eight out of 10.

Ash Mangan, a part owner of the business, said her staff had been on red alert for several weeks following the partial release of the identity of the food critic in an online article produced by an ABC Everyday journalist.

Thom, as he was called in the article, was behind the creation of the Potato Cake Appreciation Society five years ago and now has 17,000 followers.

He travels far and wide to review potato cakes (or scallops, depending on which side of the fence you are from) and walked into

It all started when Thom found a life changing potato cake in a small town in regional Victoria.

It sparked a passion project that is celebrating it's fifth year and 13,000 Facebook followers.

It's the Potato Cake Appreciation Society, and Thom says he has found a peppery potato cake in Melbourne that is close to 10 out of 10.

In 2018, on a road trip from his hometown of Echuca to Swan Hill, Thom found a potato cake worth raving about.

He wished he could "tell the world about the joys of this particularly delicious fried potato disc" from the tiny town of Cohuna in northern Victoria.

A few months later, after trying another potato cake from a fisho in Barwon Heads on Victoria's Bellarine Peninsula, Thom created the Potato Cake Appreciation Society on Facebook for a lark, along with a brief review and a picture snapp

Australian Mcdonald's customers can now order potato fritters and hokey pokey thickshakes from their local maccas, but for some reason us New Zealanders aren't getting them.

Maccas officially introduced the new items on the 12th of January in a media release. “A true Aussie icon,” they call the potato fritter - well, they don’t actually call it a ‘fritter’. Instead, they call it a ‘potato scallop’ which is just disgusting, to be honest.

“From the first bite, my fears were confirmed,” the Potat

In fast food news that is sure to generate some trans-Tasman envy, Australian Mcdonald's has added potato fritters and hokey pokey thickshakes to the menu - but New Zealanders are NOT getting them.

Maccas officially introduced the new items on the 12th of January in a media release. “A true Aussie icon,” they call the potato fritter - well, they don’t actually call it a ‘fritter’. Instead, they call it a ‘potato scallop’ which is just disgusting, to be honest.

“From the first bite, my fears we