National Tater Tot Day - February 2nd

[GAlady]

 

[Bella]

Tater Tot Fun Facts: Tater Tots were first created in 1953 when Ore-Ida founders F. Nephi Grigg and Golden Grigg were trying to figure out what to do with leftover slivers of cut-up potatoes. They came up with the novel idea of chopping up the potato slivers, adding flour and seasoning, then pushing the mash through holes and slicing off pieces of what came out on the other side.

• February 2nd is National Tater Tot Day.
• When Tater Tots were first invented, the Griggs needed to come up with a name, so they held a contest among employees and their friends. Clora Lay Orton, a young housewife, suggested the name Tater Tots.
• Tater Tots is a registered trademark for a commercial form of hash browns made by Ore-Ida, are a side-dish made from deep-fried, grated potatoes.
• Tater is slang for potato (origin: 1750–60; America; by Apheresis, tato, and substitution of -er for final -o, tater)
• Tater Tots were first available in stores in 1956.
• Americans consume approximately 70 million pounds of tater tots per year.
• In Australia, they are known as “potato gems”, “potato royals” or “potato pom-poms”.
• One of the ingredients in Tater Tots is disodium dihydrogen pyrophosphate, which is generally recognized as safe by the FDA but is also used to remove hair and feathers from livestock.

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[Bella]

Tater Tots Mini Cheeseburgers



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[Georgiagranny]

Tater tots and roadkill for dinner on Groundhog Day. Right

 

[Jace]

I was given a casserole topped with tator tots...some time ago.
It was a simple recipe, delicious and became a family favorite ..that my daughter now makes.

 

[Georgiagranny]

Let me just say that I positively loathe tater tots.

 

[hollydolly]

Move here GeeGee, we don't have Tator tots here... however we do have Broccoli and cheese Tots which are deeelishus !!

 

[Georgiagranny]

@hollydolly I think I've heard of them here, too. Haven't tried them yet.

Tater tots are merely hash browns that have been formed into sort of little balls and fried. I'll take unadulterated hash browns.