How is Saunders connected to tater tots, you ask ... the Grigg brothers called the "Holey Board", then seasoned and deep-fried. The bite-sized side dish officially got its name in 1955 after ...

They deep fried them — and there you had it: the Tater Tot. To test their taste, they packed up a crate full of 15 pounds of tots and dry ice and ventured to Miami. The Fontainebleau Resort was ...

The resulting pieces were deep fried into a tasty treat. Who came up with the name tater tot? While the Grigg brothers didn’t leave official documentation on the subject, the name is believed to ...

deep fried — to the fact that forward Richie Saunders is the great-grandson of Ore-Ida founder and the inventor of the Tater Tot, F. “Nephi” Grigg. Fittingly, Saunders had 16 points on 6 of ...