That seems a little contradictory to everything I’ve learned since I married into a Minnesotan family 15+ years ago. I’ve eaten “tater tot hot dish” everywhere from the State Fair to Duluth. Plus, my wife collects cookbooks, and she’s got cookbooks with recipes for everything from the classic Lutheran church recipe to curried chicken tater tot hot dish
So, I’m not saying your stance isn’t valid, but the state of Minnesota begs to differ
My grandparents and dad were born in Minnesota and I now live in Iowa. Tater tots are a rather new and ghoulish addition to cooking in any shape or form and hot dish is a hell of a lot older than “flaked, pressed potato bits”.
Tater tots are essentially just cylindered hash browns, which I’m sure are ancient. I don’t do these hot dishes but I use tater tots in breakfast burritos from time to time
According to Google they’re from the late 1800s. Don’t get me wrong, I love meat and potato burritos. But there are pockets of Midwesterners who think tater tots are a food group, when potatoes should really be considered closer to leather shoes on the “starvation/should i eat it chart”
I don’t know, the Wikipedia sources credit a Mankato church in the 1930’s as having the first hotdish recipe, and tater tots are documented as being invented in 1953, so tater tots have been around for well over half the history of hotdish.
I mean, of you go to the Wikipedia page for hotdish, its primary picture is a tater tot hotdish, and it specifically calls tater tot hotdish out as an example of “a traditional hotdish”
And as a matter of personal preference, I think that potatoes in general are a far tastier and often healthier form of starch than most noodles.
If it’s got tater tots in it, it is NOT hot dish. Hot dish has noodles. Tots is a casserole thing.
That seems a little contradictory to everything I’ve learned since I married into a Minnesotan family 15+ years ago. I’ve eaten “tater tot hot dish” everywhere from the State Fair to Duluth. Plus, my wife collects cookbooks, and she’s got cookbooks with recipes for everything from the classic Lutheran church recipe to curried chicken tater tot hot dish
So, I’m not saying your stance isn’t valid, but the state of Minnesota begs to differ
My grandparents and dad were born in Minnesota and I now live in Iowa. Tater tots are a rather new and ghoulish addition to cooking in any shape or form and hot dish is a hell of a lot older than “flaked, pressed potato bits”.
Tater tots are essentially just cylindered hash browns, which I’m sure are ancient. I don’t do these hot dishes but I use tater tots in breakfast burritos from time to time
According to Google they’re from the late 1800s. Don’t get me wrong, I love meat and potato burritos. But there are pockets of Midwesterners who think tater tots are a food group, when potatoes should really be considered closer to leather shoes on the “starvation/should i eat it chart”
I don’t know, the Wikipedia sources credit a Mankato church in the 1930’s as having the first hotdish recipe, and tater tots are documented as being invented in 1953, so tater tots have been around for well over half the history of hotdish.
I mean, of you go to the Wikipedia page for hotdish, its primary picture is a tater tot hotdish, and it specifically calls tater tot hotdish out as an example of “a traditional hotdish”
And as a matter of personal preference, I think that potatoes in general are a far tastier and often healthier form of starch than most noodles.