NielsBohron

I can hear this comment.

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”.

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.

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

Ah, got it. I never even saw most of the DC movies or shows post Nolan-era Batman, so I was unaware of the distinction.

Here's Tim Walz's Tater Tot Hot Dish recipe, but it's not really the most traditional recipe (Walz's recipe uses turkey instead of beef, doesn't use canned cream of mushroom soup, and traditional tater tot hot dish doesn't have much, if any, cheese)

That said, it looks great and has a bunch of positive reviews online. My Minnesotan wife is pretty excited to try it.

I read somewhere it just needs cream of something; cream of chicken is commonly used in my wife's family recipes, especially in wild rice or broccoli cheese hot dishes.

That said, I'm not a MN native; I just married into this goodness a decade and a half back.

I don't disagree, but there has been some decent stuff. In particular, I just started Doom Patrol for the first time and I'm really enjoying it

Hot dish is a version of casserole that is highly cherished in Minnesota (particularly tater tot hot dish)

Couple a YeeHawdists up in here

git gud

Once I got past the first few paragraphs, all I learned from that is that I don't understand the Poincare conjecture or really anything about topology

I mean, I did specify "in the real world" and that we were taking about ST, but sure, I guess it applies to SW, too.