Whether you're rooting for your team, the commercials or the puppies on Super Bowl Sunday, you have common ground with your neighbors: You're doing it with a heart-stopping plate of snack food in hand.
The Super Bowl is the Thanksgiving of American sports, with chicken wings replacing turkey, nachos instead of stuffing, jalapeno poppers subbing for green bean casserole. And then there are the spuds: You're missing out on grade-A gorging if you skip the humble starch.
Mashed potatoes, however, won't do. Too dinner table. No, the Super Bowl is prime time for another potato prep: tots.
I'm a fan of store-bought, freezer-aisle tots (Tater Tots, if we're being proper; Ore-Ida owns the trademark), which are way easier than making tots from scratch. (Trust me.) And sure, an unadorned tot is fine on its own, but for the Super Bowl, it's all about going big or losing to someone's bacon-weave taco. Top your tots with Buffalo chicken and blue cheese. Pair them with curds and a poutine-inspired gravy. Have you ever thought about putting tots in the waffle iron? Well you should, and your friends will thank you.
Take home MVP (Most Valuable Potato, if you'd like) this year with these three tot-ally gluttonous upgrades.
