We like French fries, but if you're looking for an American culinary variation on the potato theme
you might think about the Tater Tot. This dish is a fan favorite at Sonic drive-ins and school cafeterias all across the country.
You would have wanted to find a way to make use of leftover slivers of cut-up potatoes if you were one of the Grigg brothers who established Ore-Ida.
You would have wanted to find a way to use them. Before putting the mashed potatoes on the market in 1956, they added additional flour and spice to the mixture
then molded it into little tots. After a little more than half a century, the United States of America consumes around 32 million kg of these potatoes per year.
We like French fries, but if you're looking for a twist on the classic potato chip that's popular at Sonic drive-ins and school lunchrooms throughout the country, try the Tater Tot.
Take note of the registered trademark—the Ore-Ida firm does, in fact, own these commercial hash brown cylinders. You would have sought to find a use for the remaining potato slices if you were one of the Grigg brothers who established Ore-Ida. In 1956, they refined the mush with flour and spices, formed it into little tots, and