Topofthehillman brings up several important points that need the kind of discussion that only PDD can provide. First of all, irony is what the water tastes like in Eveleth. The "Situation" and his pal Snooki have nearly ruined cable television. Do you really think that the merger of Comcast and NBC is going to fix that? I don't think so. But perhaps the lowly Tater Tot can solve all of our problems. We need a program in this country -- not unlike JFK's exhortation that we put a man on the moon in under a decade, to put us back on the right track. I propose a contest. We must develop a sweet potato Tater Tot. The winner would receive one million dollars (to be paid in $4000 annual installments). To pay for this prize, we can end the war in Afghanistan 10 minutes early.

I'm with TimK. What the hell is this post about? Are you seriously trying to make an anti-Obama point about healthy lunch food by pointing us to a hot dish full of cream of mushroom&chicken and cheese?

Sweet Potato Tater Tots

Sweet Potato Tater Tots

Sherwood, would you please share the recipes for Slop On Top and Mashed Tatties?

Well it was basically whatever crap was lying around in the fridge, whipped up with one creamed can of 'whatever you got' thrown on top of smashed potato.  I guess it kept me alive, but I'm getting a little sick thinking about it.  I'm glad Klobuchar's recipe has some ethnicity to it.  Saxons need every bit of help they can get.  My dad's idea of spicy is still medium hotness Pace Picante.  People forget things like real garlic, avocados, whole bean coffee weren't really even available in in most grocery stores until well into the 1980s.  'Export beer' consisted of Corona, Guinness, Heineken, Newcastle if you were lucky.

Oh, tater tots are fucking poison, literally.

i·ro·ny 
[ahy-ruh-nee, ahy-er-]
- noun 1. the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning 2. outcome contrary to expectations
- Related Form    i·ron·ic- adjective

I believe that the use was the second definition. As in it is ironic that the DFL Michelle Obama at the white house has said tater tots are bad, yet the DFL Klobuchar has won a contest despite expectations to the contrary by using the very food that has been deemed terrible by her DFL superior. So Lojasmo, please learn the definitions of irony before commenting on its use.

p.s. Tator Tots are not poison but delicious!

All this talk of processed food reminds me of the classic 'The Road to Wellville,' about the inventor of the corn flake.  Sometimes I forget that Tater Titts weren't just growing on trees back in the caveman days. We take all these partially hydrogenated oils for granted nowadays.  If you wanted fat back then, you had to go carve some off the back of a giant beaver, and hang on for dear life.

@jadiaz:  That is not irony, moron.  That is two democrats who have differing opinions.

@Lojasmo Can you make a point without calling names? Cause it seems to me at least that you can't as you always throw one in. It's sad and makes me feel sorry for the anger you must have in your life. 

@Edge A Democrat is a Democrat is a Democrat. Same with Republicans. Only point I wanted to make was Michelle Obama as the OP pointed out is trying to do away with tator tots as being unhealthy, while a fellow party member is in the news winning a contest with them as a main ingredient in a pretty unhealthy casserole. As the OP stated, there is some irony in it.

@Lojasmo See how easy it is to not call names. You should try it sometime. Common courtesy is a great thing.

TPINO...Tea Partiers In Name Only. Hence the obvious lack of the "T" behind the names of the likes of Michele Bachmann and the rest of her "caucus." (She still identifies herself as being a Republican, in case you dina notice.)

This weekend, one of the chief funders of the Tea Party "movement," the Koch Brothers are having a huge gathering of other monied folks, sans reporters or other media. The Koch and Tea Party "founder" Dick Armey's stated goal is for a takeover of the Republican Party by the Tea Party. 

To be sure, this party "for the common guy" is anything but. IMO, it's the biggest lie that's been foisted upon the American people since...well...politics.

Jadiaz's equanimity was pretty brilliant anyway, and if people had a tenth of her repose and empathy, we wouldn't be in such an 'Us and Them' fix.

I think Edge was merely making a point about your semantic faux pas. It's common, particularly among folk who haven't spent much time outside Minnesota.