Everything about Tater Tots totally explained
Tater Tots, also known as
"Tots", a registered
trademark for a commercial form of
hash browns, is a side-dish made from
deep-fried, grated
potatoes. Tater Tots are widely recognized for their
crispiness, cylindrical shape and small size
Tater Tots are commonly found in the
U.S. in
cafeterias and school lunch-counters, as well as the
supermarket frozen food aisle and some
fast food restaurants. In Australia, they're known as "potato gems" or "potato pom-poms" (also used in the UK and New Zealand) and "oven crunchies" in the UK.
McCain Foods Limited calls their line of tater tots
Tasti Taters. Cascadian Farm calls their line of tater tots
Spud Puppies. Some Mexican-style
fast-food restaurants in the
Pacific Northwest offer seasoned tater tots:
Taco Time and
Señor Froggy call them "Mexi-Fries", while
Taco Bell used to sell them as "Mexi-Nuggets". In some areas of the
Northeast USA, however, they're often called "jullienes" or "potato puffs".
Tater is slang for potato (origin: 1750–60; America; by aphesis,
tato, and substitution of -er for final -o,
tater);
Tots may have been derived from their diminutive size, or because they're often served to children.
History
Tater Tots were first produced in
1953 by Golden and Nephi Grigg of the
Ore-Ida company, now a
subsidiary of
H. J. Heinz Company, as a means of utilizing potato shreds remaining from
french fry production. On their second try they mastered the "tots", the first attempt being a potato based beverage. They first became available in stores in
1954. Today Americans consume approximately 70 million pounds of
"Tots" per year.
The
Burger King fast food franchise recently established a tater tot variant, dubbed "Cheesy Tots", as a regular item available on both its breakfast and lunch/dinner menus. Cheesy Tots are coin-shaped and, as implied by the name, contain melted cheese as well as potatoes.
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