Word: tater
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...Such words herald a small battle won in the big food fight erupting over U.S. lunchrooms. With childhood-obesity rates zooming--more than a three-fold increase in 30 years--schools are under pressure from parents, health officials and legislators to serve something more wholesome than greasy burgers and Tater Tots. Across the U.S., administrators are banning deep-fat fryers from cafeteria kitchens. Sodamakers agreed last month to stop selling their sugary, fizzy products in schools...
...southeast of Indianapolis, Ind., and more than 100 teenagers are buzzing over trays in the cafeteria. Like high schoolers everywhere, they have arranged themselves by type: jocks, preps, cheerleaders, dorks, punks and gamers, all with tables of their own. But when they are finished chugging the milk and throwing Tater Tots at one another, they will drift out to their classes and slouch together through lessons on Edgar Allan Poe and Pythagoras. It's the promise of American public education: no matter who you are or where you come from, you will be tugged gently along the path of learning...
...having a particularly good day, a few months back, and as she plodded to the dining hall, she did not trust the food that awaited her to alleviate her foul mood. Yet, when she reached the servery, Dartboard was presented with a glistening, greasy surprise: the all-powerful tater tot. Bringing the tot back from its sabbatical, Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) had found the way to Dartboard’s heart. Not that they hadn’t already been wooing her with all forms of the great potato—fries to hash browns to baked?...
First and foremost, trans-fat is out. Everything from muffins to sour cream coffee cake to pancakes is free from trans-fat. In the most current health craze, this partially hydrogenated oil is as forbidden and taboo as bread to Atkins dieters. The Tater Tot is back in full force—but Napoleon Dynamite disciples, be warned: your “Tots” are now trans-fat free and have assumed the alter-ego of “Golden Nugget...
Cost of a Mr. Potato Head Darth Tater toy produced by Hasbro...