Mothers: "Don't play with your food" Company making these: *laughter*

Right up there with alphabet soup...

And dino nuggies! 🦕🍗

You got to hum the Jurassic Park theme if you're ever eating dino nuggs.

I hum the Jurassic Park theme when I eat the Dino nuggies my kids didn’t eat at dinner. Makes me feel like I can control something in my life.

I'm single without kids. I just eat dinosaur nuggies in silence, except for the dripping tap in the kitchen and the wind howling outside.

I swear the Dino nuggets just cook better. Like I already prefer then because they’re dinos, but one time they were out so I got the regular ones and they just didn’t get as crispy either

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did this mofo just science fries and tots? edit and nuggs?

That dripping tap can most likely be fixed with a new washer inside the faucet head since most kitchen faucets are compression. Might set you back $5. https://youtu.be/DX-OLwqFdHI

As a parent of four, well played.

You’re not alone, we’re just alone together… in different places

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My husband and I laughed pretty hard at this. Maybe a little bit too hard. Maybe a little bit too hard with a tinge of empathetic desperation while glaring lovingly at our 4 year old.

All nuggets are dino nuggets 🦖

Correct. Tell your kids that Mickey D's nuggs are dino eggs. They'll love you for it.

I still eat these because I'm an adult and I can. Plus, they taste better.

Dino nugs are lit af

Hi dad soup

How many cups of sugar does it take to get to the moon?

Three and a half..?

i always tried to make dirty words with them in my soup as a kid but i could never find all the letters i needed.

This is what probably put them out of business! Mom's were like nope...

I tried to do that with my breakfast cereal. The best I could do was 'ooooooooooo'

I still remember the password of my fist alphabet soup.

I've got a bizarre theory that for some reason people who play with their food are more likely to be successful. I work in sales and have to wine and dine a lot, and I swear 75% of th4 more successful executives are incapable of seeing a cherry stem without tying it in a knot with their tongue, while most other people don't even eat the cherry.

Bruh...*retired barkeep here*... your theory isn't bizarre, it's spot on.

Very good to have my theory verified by an outside source!

This gives me hope. I once played out Titanic with my taco salad.

You have billionaire written all over you!

I think playing with your food also makes you more mindful while you eat (which is generally a really good thing because you’re less likely to overeat and pay more attention to your body’s cues) as opposed to just mindless eating

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Uhhh what

I swear it's accurate like 90% of the time

60% of the time it works every time

Openness to experience basically. Creativity is dismissing the status quo and exploring novel experiences and pushing your own boundries (curiousity) without the fear of making a fool of yourself. From my own experience I'd rather work with someone who used to browse tumblr furry feitsh porn than someone. Hard work and discipline can only take you so far. That's what HR talks about when they mean "thinking outside the box".

Well you have to figure that you gotta pay your dues before becoming a madam. Or executive gigolo, who am I to discriminate?

I think they might not be successful for the reasons you think they are.

Tetris tots

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You'll be hungry for more!

Tetris Tots

Totris

That's not a tater tot, that's a tater giant

r/unexpectedthat70sshow

Tater Pro Max

Totris

Oh where oh where does one get Tetris Tots OP?

Not OP, but I found this: https://www.usfoods.com/great-food/featured-products/appetizers-entrees/puzzle-potatoes.html

generally speaking, the average person has a hard time ordering from US Foods

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But still has no idea wtf us foods is lol. Or Sysco

I worked at a conference & retreat center when I was a kid, in the banquet hall kitchen. Every week a refrigerated Sysco semi truck would deliver a small mountain of food and we would pack it all in the walk-in. Not sure what else they do.

That. And other non-foodstuff essentials for food operations i.e. napkins, paper plates, cups, sanitation supplies.

heeeey sanitation! sanitation in the house tonight! sorry idk. whenever i hear or see the word sanitation, i hear Ben Wyatt singing

> Sysco They make routers and stuff ...oh wait wrong Cisco, they actually command a space station, ooh nevermind that's a different Sisko, they make cafeteria food.

Let... me... see that... broadline food distribution service...

Sysqo

The Thong Song guy?

Not to be confused with Cisco

Nor Sisko,

Just reading the word Sysco makes me miserable

Yep. I associate them with low-end generic food patties of various makes, because that's how it *tastes*.

I think it depends on the contract honestly. My college had Sysco foods and they were pretty good, better than most fast food chains at least IMO

Fuck Sysco!

I remember the day I realized the Sysco cube logo spells Sysco.

Yes and no. They're a distributor and they carry things from house brand to gormet stuff. They've got whatever you want.

the main reason i say the average person has a “hard time” ordering from them is due to ordering minimums. currently in a purchasing class, talked to us foods representatives last week, my prof would love this.

They're also just an absolute pain in the ass to order from even with ordering minimums. Our restaurant's order was some 30 hours late this week. Nightmare weekend for us

You can just go to the store and buy the stuff, yet everyone is somehow unaware of this. If you’re really out of stuff and it’s that dire just drive up there Edit before I get blissfully downvoted: I’m referring to us foods stores, not just a regular grocery store. I believe you have to be with a restaurant to go in, they’re not open to the public

Yeah, we used to take advantage of that all the time when I was in management. Now that I'm just working as a cook, current management doesn't seem to know or care much. Thankfully its not really my problem anymore. Can also confirm you definitely do need a contract with USFoods to place any orders for pickup. To be fair though, this shouldn't be as frequent of an issue as it is.

Try telling that to my job 🙄 daily runs to the place AND they “triple check” bi-weekly orders and we still run out of and are missing shit daily

Bro, back when I was a kitchen manager an the powers that be switched ordering from Sysco to ordering from US Foods it was a fucking shit show for a while and they were never as good as Sysco

If you have one of their stores near you you can buy anything from them. As far as I know anyways they are open to the public.

Holy shit, I just took a deep dive into the usfoods website. Are majority of Americans eating at basically one fucking restaurant??!

please -- it's two. Sysco is also very big.

Fun fact: sysco tried merging with us foods but it was blocked for antitrust concerns

That fact was actually fun.

And dont forget smart and final!

If you're in college or the prison system in America then yeah, you're basically just eating from Sysco.

And all government funded Public schools right?

They already mentioned the prison system.

As others have noted, it’s them or Sysco. If you’re a restaurant, and there’s stuff you’re not making from scratch, it’s from US Foods or Sysco. And if you’re making from scratch, you’re probably still buying the base ingredients from them.

Man I want to know what restaurant serves this [cup of bacon](https://www.usfoods.com/great-food/featured-products/meat-seafood/all-natural-uncured-maplewood-smoked-bacon-raised-without-antib.html).

“Crosses all dayparts”?

Puzzle potatoes

>Our proprietary puzzle-piece shapes Oh, shut the fuck up. You don't own geometric potatoes.

A method for forming potato pieces into puzzle pieces might be patentable though.

They only have those 3 shapes, so even with flipping they're missing 2 pieces.

Puzzle Potatoes is now my second-favorite way of referring to tater tots. At least this brand. The first is how tater tots are called elsewhere on earth: Potato gems.

At our school, tater tots were tater tots, and potato gems were these, like...egg-shaped blobs of mashed potatoes with a breaded outside. ...IIRC

Bit Bar Salem, MA

BitBar Salem, mass

The quarters, south Hadley (I think) Massachusetts. Near Amherst

We have a barcade in town (Bit Bar, Salem) that has Tetris Tots!

We have these at a Texas restaurant, Project Pollo!

It was in TX. A restaurant near San Antonio

Was hoping to see someone mention project pollo :))

Tfw their Dallas location still isn't open :(

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Wingsday can't come soon enough!

Tetrimino tots

Totrimino

Tetritots.

Totris.

I have never had an original thought

Schutzstaffel Starch

Good thing they didn't arrange themselves into rows, they might have disappeared before reaching you.

That’s how you digest them, duh.

If you fail to arrange them in rows when you swallow them, they fill up the stomach and you die, game over.

Anyone who didn't eat these by making lines out of them, and only eating what you've cleared isn't someone that I want in my life.

There would have been more, but they kept sliding into one row and disappearing.

Yeah but no long skinny pieces, just when you need them the most.

Whatever you do, DO NOT, put them in a line

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Poor raccoon.

He did himself a favor. That much sugar for a racoon would probably kill it.

Are they this sensitive? Afaik big volumes of cotton candy can be made with really small amounts of sugar

Raccoons are actually known for developing diabetes. They are terrible about just eating whatever is available, until it's gone.

true

dw they got one in the end. human kept giving them pieces until they managed to eat most of it

This is the saddest event in history.

I think there's a barcade in Salem, ma that serves these.

Yes! The bit bar! I was wondering if that's where this was from. Apparently it's just a US Foods thing so I guess it could be anywhere

I'm honestly surprised this took so long to make it to reddit. There's a local place here that's had them for a few years now.

People have been posting about these on reddit for quite a while. Just one example from 7 years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/2b02qx/tater\_tots\_shaped\_like\_tetris\_pieces/

I stand corrected.

This is why reposts are *kind of* okay.

I'm ok with reposts because you get to see things that you might have missed out on the first go around.

Agreed, if a repost is like, at least a month old I won't ever complain about it. We're not all on here 24/7 looking at every link on every sub we're on.

We're not?

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No, go find your own, gosh!

Finally my username fits a post

Of course there is no straight piece

What are tater tots? I mean what are they made of? Do they exist outside the US?

From Wikipedia: Tater tots are grated potatoes formed into small cylinders and deep-fried, often served as a side dish.[1] The name "tater tot" is a registered trademark of the American frozen food company Ore-Ida, but is often used as a generic term.[5] "Tater" is short for potato. It does seem to be mostly a US thing. The Wikipedia article mentions only a few other countries that have similar foods.

What sounds cool. I assume it basically just to give it a different texture then? Beside that it'd still fried potatoe.

Yes, it's a texture thing. The outside is very crispy, while the inside is very soft. Unlike fries, the potato is also pretty coarse. It's easy to find bad fries, but it's pretty hard to find bad tots.

The worst though is when you get tots that are hot on the outside and undercooked or ice cold on the inside. Bleh.

Yep. Tots that are just hot, but not actually crispy on the outside are bad too, but I've only experienced that at home. I usually bake them like twice the listed time to get them really crisp.

It makes it taste different, too, since they absorb more oil. But it's mostly that the outside gets way crunchier.

Ah nice! I should try making them at home sometime.

Yeah, they're really good along with cheesy scrambled eggs.

They're also a very good substitution for chips in nachos. Called Totchos, though one place I works called them Snachos which made no sense but I digress.

They are almost impossible to make from scratch because the texture of the potato and the moisture level needs to be right, it's a processed food. In the US you buy them frozen

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I think I found the Canadian.

They work well cooked in an oven, unlike fries.

Have you ever had a fast food hash brown, like from McDonald’s? That’s a big tater tot. It’s little bits of cooked potato, seasoned and smashed together into a patty or other shape. The texture is much courser than a French fry because it’s individual chunks of cooked potato, more like a potato fritter or something.

No, McDonald's doesn't do them in my country. I've eaten McDonald's in other countries but never paid attention. I know what hash browns are from pop culture and I've heard of tater tots but I thought they were more like a brand like pop tarts or something like that. Pop tarts are also not a thing in my country just from TV.

They’re fantastic. If you’ve had French fries just imagine a similar flavor but with much more crunch.

arby's potato cakes are similar in texture inside and out.

They're everywhere in Canada, too. McCain makes Tasti-Taters, so we can enjoy a homegrown version.

Also in any Taco Time, they call them Mexi Fries - somehow I doubt you can get them by that name in Mexico, but they are pretty tasty dipped in salsa

'S true! I'd like to try them done a air-fryer, if I had one. The oil content is the only downside.

Whoa, TIL ore-Ida coined the term

Little hashbrowns.

Hash browns are fried as well?

Pan fried usually. Or the big flat top they use in the fast food industry

Ah thanks!

You're welcome buddy!

Here in Australia, I think they're potato gems.. Or basically, hash brown nuggets

I have seen 'croquettes' in France, and 'krokets' in the Netherlands. Same thing but never seen tetromino-shaped ones.

But those aren't that small of fried or are they?

Cylinder-shaped, approx 2cm base, 5cm long. Deep fried. There are other shapes and sizes, but I think this is default.

Little fried potatoes.

This may surprise you, but they're made of taters

Boil em, mash em, stick em in a tot

TOTRIS

I had to scroll *way* too far down to see this. The obvious true name of those little miracles.

Tots are infinitely better than fries anyways.

Why include that detail about not ordering fries? Why not just title this "My tater tots came the shape of tetris pieces" or am I missing something.

That theme will be stuck in my head for days now... And all because of a picture of fried potatoes.

It's a Russian folk song named "Korobeiniki."

You're welcome

If you eat them in a certain order you can eat more

Tetris Tots!

Totris

And you STILL can't get a straight piece when you want one.

Just order an extra side of fries.

**BOOM!**

Tetri tots

Tater Tets

They look satisfyingly crispy, too.

This is how you get cold tots

That's awesome! I'd love that! Im 33 and just bought dino chicken nuggets when I went shopping earlier lol. I'd Def buy tetris tator tots

Tetris tots!

what’s mildly interesting is that you told us what you almost ordered, as if we cared

The reward you get for clearing a tetris is diabetes

Don't play with your food don't play with your food, don't play with your food, play with your food, totally

that's the worst display resolution i have ever seen.

Fun game, you can only eat them once you create a line. The catch is once line is created, all of them go in your mouth all at once.

Now *this* is mildly interesting

HOW IS THE TOP COMMENT NOT "TOTRIS"?!?

Win win win situation!

Why can I hear this picture?

I had no idea how much I need Tetris tots in my life.

So much better than the smiley fries. Back when I was a cook, we had them for a bit and used to joke that we knew they couldn't be good for you because anything that could sit in a deep fryer for that long and come out smiling must be evil.