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...remember those days well. Things were so much simple then. Midterms were unheard of. Three quarters could get you a metal with your choice of "tater tots" or "fish wedge." And your social standing was determined solely by your choice of carbonated beverage...
...that Reagan wasn't going to be my sort of politician. And the next year, when he declared ketchup to be a vegetable in school lunches, I knew he was the wrong man for the job. For my friends who ate a balanced meal only at school, shriveled hamburgers, tater tots and ketchup just didn...
...American politics. North Carolina Senator Robert Rice Reynolds, a baroque declaimer of the Southern school of rural demagogy in the '30s and '40s, was a genius of flavorsome insinuation. "Do y'all know what ((my opponent's)) favorite dish is?" he would ask slowly of his "God-fearin', 'tater-raisin', baby-havin' " constituents. Then in a burst of disgusted indignation: "Caviar!" The word came out caw-vee-yah. "You know what caviar is? It's little black fish eggs, and it comes from Red Russia!" A certain amount of family-values rhetoric is mere caviar denunciation...
...Boise affiliate of H.J. Heinz Co., they peela lotta potatoes -- about 6,000 tons a day. Traditional recipe: steam 900 lbs. of potatoes in a vast vat; release the steam so the skins drop off. Preparation time: two minutes. Drawbacks: you lose nearly a tenth of a tater with the skin and generate a dun-colored, viscous by-product, used as cattle feed...
Those who were not worn out by the various brouhahas of the past year or so--Confederate flags, swastikas,. exploding pink triangles, blue squares--are already heatedly hashing this one out over tater tots in the dining halls. The arguments for both sides are not particularly edifying or even...