A close-up of a plate of Tater Tots.

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.^[1] Tater Tots are widely recognized for their crispiness, cylindrical shape and small size Image File history File links A digital photo of some tater tots, taken by myself with a Fujifilm FinePix A210 digital camera. ... Image File history File links A digital photo of some tater tots, taken by myself with a Fujifilm FinePix A210 digital camera. ... “(TM)” redirects here. ... Hash browns or hashed browns is a simple potato preparation in which potato pieces are pan-fried after being diced, riced, or julienned. ... A Deep-fried Twinkie Deep-frying is a cooking method whereby food is submerged in hot oil or fat. ... For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ...

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 are 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". For other uses, see United States (disambiguation) and US (disambiguation). ... One of a number of cafeterias at Electronic City campus, Infosys Technologies Ltd. ... Packaged food aisles in a Fred Meyer store in Portland, Oregon A supermarket is a departmentalized self-service store offering a wide variety of food and household merchandise. ... Frozen food is food preserved by the process of freezing. ... Fast food is food prepared and served quickly at a fast-food restaurant or shop at low cost. ... McCain Foods Limited, a privately owned company established in 1957 by the McCain brothers in Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada, is the worlds largest producer of french fries and other oven-ready frozen foods. ... A fast-food restaurant is a restaurant characterized both by food which is supplied quickly after ordering, and by minimal service. ... The Pacific Northwest from space The Pacific Northwest, abbreviated PNW, or PacNW is a region in the northwest of North America. ... Taco Time Taco Time is a fast-food restaurant, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Kahala Corporation of Scottsdale, Arizona. ... Taco Bell Corp. ...

Tater is New England slang for potato (origin: 1750–60; by aphesis, tato, and substitution of -er for final -o, tater); Tots may have been derived from their diminutive size, or because they are 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. January 7 - President Harry S. Truman announces the United States has developed a hydrogen bomb. ... Ore-Ida is a brand of potato-based foods owned by the H.J. Heinz Company. ... A subsidiary, in business, is an entity that is controlled by another entity. ... H. J. Heinz Company (NYSE: HNZ), commonly known as Heinz, famous for its 57 Varieties slogan, is a processed food product company with its headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States of America. ... For other meanings of the word chip see CHIPS (disambiguation) French fries, chips, or pommes frites are potatoes that have been cut and deep-fried (i. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In popular culture

• Tater tots are featured prominently in the Idaho-set 2004 film Napoleon Dynamite.
• Comedian Ron White tells the story of how he once gave the alias "Tater Salad" to the police, joking that he named his son "Tater Tot".
• Tater Tots are served as an hors-d'oeuvre by Peggy Hill and Bobby Hill in the King of the Hill Season 3 episode "Pretty, Pretty Dresses".
• Weird Al Yankovic had at least three references to Tater Tots in his works. In the theme for The Weird Al Show, he claims to have once worked on a Tater Tot farm. Also, in his song, One of Those Days, he complains that "it's nothing but Tater Tots for dinner again". This sentiment also appears in his song Addicted to Spuds.
• Larry the Cable Guy made a reference to tater tots in a parody Christmas carol, "Johnny the Retard" (Johnny the retard/Had an 8-pound water head/He was 5' 3" and he said to me/"I like tater tots, nehe!")
• In an episode of Family Guy, Meg Griffin refers to her breasts as "tater tots".
• Celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton refers to Britney Spears' first son Sean Preston as "Tater Tot" (the second child Jayden James is referred to as "Small Fry" on Hilton's blog).

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See also

• Tater tot hotdish
• Croquettes

Tater tot Hotdish Tater tot hotdish is a hotdish served mostly in the upper Midwest, especially Minnesota, North and South Dakota. ... Cylindrical croquettes. ...

External links

• Tater Tot Casserole recipe

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