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tater tatér tâter Täter
English
Noun
en tater.
en 23 December 1936 Hazel Livingston ‘Love’s Litany’ Walter V. Hogan The Daily Reporter XX 53 White Plains, N.Y. White Plains Publishing Company chapter IX 18 https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/1050956409/ 4 26498499 Well, then, fix it up nice, waiter, and make mine baked hash an’ mashed ’taters and stewed corn and waiter!—plain white bread, no fancy rolls!
5 December 1993 Miriam Ungerer For Some L.I. Farmers, New Potatoes Are Old Potatoes https://web.archive.org/web/20240422141712/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/05/nyregion/for-some-li-farmers-new-potatoes-are-old-potatoes.html Potato farming as a single crop requires a lot of acreage and machinery to be profitable. You can’t plant ’taters on priceless real estate, and so many of the farmers who remain, particularly the younger ones, have wisely turned to planting perishable, more labor-intensive but much more profitable crops.
22 January 2026 Sammy Gecsoyler ‘We want to make jacket potatoes sexy again!’: how the humble spud became a fast food sensation https://web.archive.org/web/20260122060628/https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/jan/22/jacket-potatoes-sexy-again-humble-spud-became-fast-food-sensation This permanent space is a snazzy upgrade from their market tram, a little like a Wonka factory for potatoes, with sacks of spuds sitting in one corner, fancy cast-iron potato ovens roasting away, and a production line of workers dishing out tasty ’taters at speed.