{"id":269297,"date":"2010-02-02T17:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2322"},"modified":"2010-02-02T17:02:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T22:02:10","slug":"it%e2%80%99s-national-eat-your-tater-tots-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269297","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s National Eat Your Tater Tots Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2323\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2323\" title=\"kessler.0117 Tater tots\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/11-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"My homemade tater tots (AJC Staff)\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">My homemade tater tots (AJC Staff)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>At least it is according to Twitter and Facebook, which means it must be true. Here&#8217;s a story about the natural history of Tater Tots that I wrote two years ago.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Tater Tot held its debutante ball, fittingly, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. The swooping post-modern structure had itself just debuted in 1954, signaling the country&#8217;s interest in new forms, new conveniences, new luxuries &#8212; all financed with infusions of postwar cash.<\/p>\n<p>The coming-out event wasn&#8217;t actually a dance in honor of a frozen food, but rather a breakfast at the National Potato Convention being held at the hotel. One attendee &#8212; F. Nephi &#8220;Neef&#8221; Grigg of Ore-Ida Foods in Idaho &#8212; had smuggled in a satchel of what would be his greatest invention.<\/p>\n<p>As Grigg recalls in his papers, he &#8220;bribed &#8230; the head cook &#8230; and arranged to have the Tater Tots cooked, placed in small saucers and distributed on the breakfast tables for sample treats.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The response?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They were gobbled &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My homemade tater tots (AJC Staff) At least it is according to Twitter and Facebook, which means it must be true. Here&#8217;s a story about the natural history of Tater Tots that I wrote two years ago. The Tater Tot held its debutante ball, fittingly, at the Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach. The swooping post-modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}