I remember my first serving with tater tots.
I was in a restaurant for breakfast and when ordering the waitress asked me if I wanted home fries, hash browns or ‘tots’?
I did not know what a ‘tot’ was at that time, 1977 IIRC, so I ordered that just to see what it was...................
Yeah, that’s about the same time I heard of them, too. They had them at the HS cafeteria. I always brown bagged my lunch, but I had friends who used the school lunches. That was my first exposure to them.