[Sca-cooks] Gyro? Hero?

[Pixel, Queen of Cats]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Philip & Susan Troy wrote:

> "Craig Jones." wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >I went to a "white trash party" and discovered - heck, i invented - a
> > >new hore derve:
> > >The cheez wiz from the spray can squirted artistically on Tater Tots.
> >
> > Tater Tots?  I know not of these.  Please...explain...
>
> Our National Shame... a Tater Tot is a particular brand (there are
> others, differently named) of frozen potato product made from teeny
> little flakes or chips (in the literal sense) of dehydrated potato,
> ground or chopped up roughly to the size of grains of rice. These are
> then reconstituted and bound together with various agents (logic would
> suggest egg but I doubt it's anything so sensible) and extruded through
> a nozzle some 1.5 cm in diameter, then cut off every 2.5 cm or so. They
> probably are dropped directly into hot oil and partially fried, then
> frozen. The idea is to then be able to reheat them in the oven, say, on
> a cookie sheet. For those wishing to steep themselves in decadence and
> moral lassitude, they can even be refried. Onion, similarly abused, is
> sometimes mixed into the overall goo.
>
> That said, it would also be fair to state that most children seem to
> like them, they are apparently not actively toxic in the short term, and
> cleanup after preparing them is easier than for actual fried potatoes of
> whatever sort.



And if you're in the northern Midwest, as previously mentioned, you make
of them a Hotdish. *shudder*

Margaret FitzWilliam