Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Well, there's always Tater Tots





Related reading:
The Tater Tot Is American Ingenuity at Its Finest. The genius move that turned potato scraps into a frozen-food empire.  (Eater, 8/28/2017)
In 1953, no one at the Griggs’ family potato plant in Northern Oregon planned to make anything other than frozen corn and french fries. These were the money makers, the big winners of the frozen food aisle; after all, this was the 1950s. Entrepreneurs across America were realizing in the wake of the second World War that Americans really loved heating up their dinner. Between 1945 and 1946, Americans bought 800 million pounds of frozen food. And the Grigg brothers wanted a bigger piece of that very frozen pie.

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