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I learned the history of "Tater Tots" today (after midnight, counts) with @juliewebgirl.
TL;DR - Invented in the Pacific Northwest by a company called Ore-Ida, a concatenation of "Oregon" and "Idaho", in Ontario, Or. The owners were figuring out what to do with potato slivers from other parts of their process. Adding flour and seasonings and frying them, the Tot was born. Tah-Dah!
Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tater_tots
Ore-Ida Themselves: https://www.oreida.com/product/00013120085666
@elfin @juliewebgirl And then Taco Time added extra salt and christened them "MEXI FRIES"
@spacehobo @juliewebgirl "Extra Salt" is Good.
@elfin @juliewebgirl https://youtu.be/PmGyACG5K0E?t=56
EXTRA SUGAR!
EXTRA SALT!
EXTRA OIL AND MSG!!!!
@spacehobo @juliewebgirl I always like Jolt Cola's marketing line: "All the sugar, Twice the caffeine."
@elfin @spacehobo
Except when someone *ahem* (not me) didn't have proper measuring spoons so somebody else *ahem* (me) decided to wing it on the aus ju mix and we both woke up with what I can only assume was some level of edema. I've NEVER ... and I've ground salt straight into my mouth befo... Oh wait... It was pink sea salt. Ahaaaaa...
Mystery solved.
@juliewebgirl @elfin I use "LO SALT" (45% NaCl, 45% KCl, 10% MgCl) for sauces and broths, and posh Welsh sea-salt flakes as topping. Sodium in modern diets is slowly poisoning the heart, and you need to top your potassium back up and drink water to flush out the metals you ingest.
@spacehobo @juliewebgirl Well, if you spell "water" like "tea" I'd say we each easily plow 2+ liters per day.
I've had the low-salt. It's not bad. Unsure about using it for sauces. I'd have to play with that for a while before being confident with it as an ingredient.
@elfin @juliewebgirl Well, you should probably take potassium supplements then if you can't fix your salt intake.
@spacehobo @juliewebgirl I could definitely do better in the potassium space.
@spacehobo @elfin Not everybody. #hypotension Also, pink salt is not the bleached white crap in processed foods that needs to be eliminated. Fun fact: my mom started using pink sea salt instead of white table salt and her BP went DOWN. #OtherMinerals I'm also going to disagree about water flushing out metals. They need something to bind to to carry them out, but yeah, heavy metals are killing us.
@juliewebgirl @spacehobo It was very salty. Good tho.
@elfin @spacehobo
lololol it was really good