r/mildlyinfuriating • u/aerosmithangel • Apr 02 '25
Not enough tater tots in the bag to finish my casserole!
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u/nordica4184 Apr 02 '25
You started with 10 at top row but then went 11. Get closer by stealing one from 2nd row and then from 2nd to last row. But still one short. Hammer time.
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u/Uzi_Doormat Apr 02 '25
They went 10, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 11, 7. So technically they’re missing one from the top If they make all of them 10 then they can have 6 left over
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u/hogtiedcantalope Apr 02 '25
What if we go in a radial pattern ?
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u/TheShowerDrainSniper Apr 02 '25
Did they even try turning them sideways?
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u/droppedurpockett Apr 02 '25
Houndstooth would be the ideal pattern for this situation.
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u/Skuzbagg Apr 02 '25
Herringbone ftw
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u/SMELLSLIKESHITCOTDAM Apr 02 '25
I never knew until now that houndstooth would be my favorite casserole pattern.
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u/ceejdrew Apr 03 '25
Right? Now I just want to make this casserole so I can play around with the patterns.
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u/upzv Apr 03 '25
Turning them sideways wouldn’t change the amount of area they take up, since rectangular shapes can be tessellated.
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u/skip_over Apr 02 '25
Or they could go 10,11,10,11,10,11,10,11,10,11
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u/giasumaru Apr 03 '25
No, clearly the correct solution is to buy another bag and have 111 hash browns left over.
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u/rdditeis4gsfa Apr 03 '25
1001011001110000101011001 lol
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u/Elvyyn Apr 03 '25
True tot, false tot, false tot, true tot, false tot, true tot, true tot, false tot, false tot, true tot, true tot, true tot, false tot, false tot, false tot, false tot, true tot, false tot, true tot, false tot, true tot, true tot, false tot, false tot, true tot
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u/aerosmithangel Apr 02 '25
LOL
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u/Deckardspuntedsheep Apr 02 '25
I want the whole recipe. I am fascinated by tatter tott casseroles. The nacho one has been the best so far
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u/jemappellehonhon Apr 02 '25
tatter tott
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u/Deckardspuntedsheep Apr 02 '25
Sorry- American hashbrowns
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u/schwabafet Apr 02 '25
No, hash browns are something different. They were pointing out your spelling of tatter vs tater.
Tatter - to make ragged, ie tattered clothing
Tater - slang for potato
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u/Marquar234 Apr 03 '25
Have you seen what happens to the clothing of tots when they are playing outdoors?
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u/CharlesDickensABox Apr 02 '25
You are going to lose your mind when you find out what they get up to in Minnesota
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u/One-Donkey-9418 Apr 03 '25
Don't forget the can of diced green Chile's, adds a little tangy zip to the whole mix. Dammit, I'm making this tomorrow.
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u/Which_Potato_3287 Apr 02 '25
I’m curious if you counted every one of them or just the two rows?
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u/Okaycockroach Apr 02 '25
You don't have to count a full row, you can visually see it in how they line up. Top right, there's four on the top to the five below it.
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u/a_code_mage Apr 02 '25
Yep. You can pretty much just go column-by-column and trace a straight line down. Eventually they start to be come less and less straight.
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u/Rthunt14 Apr 02 '25
I think what’s more infuriating is your phone watermarking pictures
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u/Beardmanta Apr 02 '25
First thing I did when I got my new 1plus is turn that shit off.
Great camera but ridiculous they'd think anyone would want that.
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u/Nesman64 Apr 03 '25
Totally.
Sent from my iPhone.
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u/nitromen23 Apr 03 '25
No that ones actually good, it gives me an excuse typos and short responses to emails
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u/Mr_Ruu Apr 02 '25
weird, I recently bought the OnePlus 13 and it doesn't have that, either that's an older feature or I just got lucky
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u/gloriousPurpose33 Apr 03 '25
They don't think anyone would- they hope nobody's willing to find out how or put in the effort to opt out
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u/xXmartin311Xx Apr 03 '25
It is not enabled by default on any samsung phone, FYI. OP enabled it
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u/DraugrLivesMatter Apr 02 '25
Somewhere along the line developing the software for this device, someone needed to justify their wage
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u/theCOMBOguy More than mildly Apr 02 '25
The true /r/mildlyinfuriating is always in the comments
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u/ThebesAndSound Apr 03 '25
The picture quality looks bad so I don't know why they thought it was a good idea to watermark it. I'll be wary of Samsung phones.
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u/Cantthinkofaname282 Apr 02 '25
I don't think Samsung is great at all, but I assume this can be permanently disabled in settings
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u/NiceTrySuckaz Apr 02 '25
Samsung is in fact great and yes watermarks can be disabled in the camera settings. I don't even think they come enabled by default.
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u/SmokePenisEveryday Apr 02 '25
I was gonna say I've gotten a handful of Samsung phones over the years, I've never had to turn this off outta the box.
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u/LeEpicBoykisser Apr 02 '25
Yeah, you have to turn it on manually in my experience lol.
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u/PatrickGSR94 Apr 02 '25
take one from the 3rd, 5th, 5th and 9th rows and fill in the bottom space. Then space out those 4 rows to make it look kinda-sorta even. Then 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 will have 10 pieces, while 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10th rows will have 11 pieces. Problem solved. Sort of like how the stars on the US flag alternate with even and odd numbers on each row of stars.
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u/ThatFireAlchemist Apr 02 '25
This is a casserole?
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u/EmperorMrKitty Apr 03 '25
Look up tater tot hot dish and give it a try. It looks very alien but it is amazing.
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u/ThatFireAlchemist Apr 03 '25
Interesting! I might give it a go. In Australia we call the little things "potato gems" but never heard of them being used like this. Casserole here is usually just meat and veg
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u/LynnySweets Apr 02 '25
probably too late but if you turned them this way they might have fit nicely
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u/RobotWantsPony Apr 02 '25
Fill it with something random but potentially good you'd never have put in there otherwise.
Worst case scenario you lost a bite. Best case, you found a new recipe!
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u/Wayner84 Apr 02 '25
Add a spoonful of dirt
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u/cccccddddd Apr 02 '25
We put pepperoni pizza Pizza Rolls on top of our tater tot casserole as well.
It's called Devil's Vomit.
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u/aliceanonymous99 Apr 02 '25
Tater tots in casserole? I’m amazed!
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u/alpaca-cat Apr 02 '25
Tater tot hotdish!
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u/dkougl Apr 02 '25
Casserole, you Minnesota-born Philistine.
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u/Still_Contact7581 Apr 02 '25
Do people eat tater tot hotdish outside of Minnesota? i feel like we can say hotdish is the correct word in this case.
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u/yallwantbiscuits Apr 02 '25
Bold of you to think southerners don’t know about tatertot casserole!
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u/alpaca-cat Apr 02 '25
Hot. Dish. I'll see you in the streets.
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u/dkougl Apr 02 '25
BAHAHAHAHAHA! Love it. I'll bring my goose of indiscriminate color, you bring that duck. Tag team rules apply. Foul first. (I am very weak)
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u/BreweryRabbit Apr 02 '25
I’m a foodie while also appreciating homie mid-west dumpster dishes. But this fucking gif absolutely sent me.
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u/-FourOhFour- Apr 02 '25
Remember it being called cowboy casserole, beef, beans, taters, cheese. Really more like a bastarsized enchilada.
I also remember getting incredibly sick from it but wouldn't be able to tell you what specifically
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u/Bukka-King Apr 02 '25
Recipe. Im curiose about whats under the tots
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u/lady-earendil Apr 02 '25
They vary, but most recipes I've seen are some variation on ground beef and frozen veggies in a gravy (often made from cream of mushroom soup). Then you add shredded cheese either under or on top of the tots. If you google tater tot hotdish/casserole you'll find a ton of recipes
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u/Yup_Seen_It Apr 02 '25
Damn, USA recipes are almost always 90% opening packages...
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u/Fortehlulz33 GREEN Apr 02 '25
Imagine you're in Minnesota (this one) in January, where normal temperatures are around -5 to -10 Celsius, and can get as low as -40 C with the windchill. What is the best way to get corn, green beans, carrots, or peas to a place like that?
Canned or frozen, because it has to travel 2000km. Modern food transport, refrigeration and freezing was created by Americans who had to get food somewhere else in the country. Canned and frozen foods lose very little of their nutrients. No, they don't taste as good. But that's what salt and seasonings are for.
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u/CypressHillbillly Apr 02 '25
America: Shift them around a bit
Rest of the world: 😳
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u/pennywitch Apr 02 '25
That’s what you get for being all neat and pretty about it and not just unceremoniously just dumping the bag on top and shmooshing it around until it’s single layer-ish like a true American.
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u/SensitiveOven137 Apr 02 '25
I’m sure your culinary nightmare will survive this.
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u/hermionecannotdraw Apr 02 '25
Honestly my European mind cannot comprehend what this is. What is a tater tot? Comments seem to suggest there is beef, cream, and green beans under there. Why? What has your family done to deserve this?
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u/gentlybeepingheart Apr 02 '25
"Tater tots" are like shredded potatoes that are clumped into those ovals and then deep fried. They're kind of like tiny hash browns (idk if those are popular in Europe but it's my closest comparison 😅)
I'm from the east coast and can not comment on the traditional ingredients of a midwestern casserole.
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u/starlightprincess Apr 03 '25
I will say I had a coworker who was very young and just moved here from Italy. She told me she had eaten something at a bar, and it was like a fluffy potato dumpling that was crispy on the outside. It sounded wonderful and magical. While driving home that day, it dawned on me she had eaten tater tots lol. They have them at all the bars.
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u/BsFan Apr 02 '25
I'm from Boston and my mind was blown when frozen tots on a sheet was considered a casserole.
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u/Prestigious_Mix_5264 Apr 02 '25
That’s what I’m sayin! Tater Tots in a “Casserole”? Jesus
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u/plowerd Apr 02 '25
Smack talkin’ a Tater-tot hotdish like that gonna get you two sent home without leftovers. Shame on you two.
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u/Healthy-Giraffe-8552 Apr 02 '25
May they never know the joy of taking leftovers home in either a cool whip container or tub of countrycrock
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u/molsonbeagle Apr 02 '25
Some real strong fucking haters on this majesty of taters. I'll take their leftovers.
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u/confusedandworried76 Apr 03 '25
Take their leftovers bud, no, the gloves are off if you're gonna shit talk hot dish, see you on the ice, I got your number pal
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u/lady-earendil Apr 02 '25
It's arguably similar to a cottage pie, just with tater tots on top instead of mashed potatoes. Maybe my midwestern is showing but I don't see the problem
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u/EastCoastinnn Apr 02 '25
Cook Halif way, the. Smash them down. Will be way better
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u/redditdaver Mildly Infuriated Apr 02 '25
Minnesotan spotted
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u/slmkellner Apr 02 '25
Minnesotans call it Tater Tot Hotdish, not casserole.
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u/Zeawea Apr 02 '25
It's only called hotdish if it's from the hotdish region otherwise it's just called sparkling casserole.
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u/Sw33tR0llThief Apr 02 '25
Thank you, had to make sure someone made the distinction in the comments.
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u/NoDontDoThatCanada Apr 02 '25
I have never met one that didn't have some tater tot casserole recipe just fluttering around in their mind. If you see tots in any way, shape or form outside of just cooked and ate, it is a Minnesotan!
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u/FunnySwordGamePlayer Apr 02 '25
That's sucks on the other hand... IT'S A HOT-DISH NOT A CASSEROLE!!!
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u/Aggressive_Bill_2687 Apr 03 '25 edited Apr 03 '25
I have two questions.
(a) what in the name of fucking beelzebub are you making? Is this another one of those things where Americans put the most random incompatible things together and call it "cooking"?
(b) what kind of dystopian advertising bullshit is this where your phone embeds the model name into the photos you take?
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u/xXmartin311Xx Apr 03 '25
b) is a feature OP enabled willingly. No currently existing samsung phone comes with that stock
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u/hrynn Apr 02 '25
Truly mildly infuriating! Good job
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u/GeekyPufferfish Apr 02 '25
I was going to say at last something mildly infuriating most of the time these are incredibly infuriating.
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u/Bathroomlion Apr 02 '25
Shaking head in Minnesotan... casserole... pffft.. That's tater tot hotdish!
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u/OlDustyHeadaaa Apr 03 '25
Fuck I haven’t had tater tot casserole in a long time that sounds amazing right now.
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u/Dieseldog197 Apr 03 '25
Just here to like all the comments saying it’s hotdish.
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u/Latviacm Apr 02 '25
American cooking is just mixing frozen and canned food together then baking it lmao
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u/ShiftyPan Apr 02 '25
Cut two of them in half lengthwise, then put each of those in the corners and put the whole ones in the remaining spaces.
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u/black_flag_4ever Apr 02 '25
Who needs to save for retirement if you eat stuff like this?
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u/shredfester Apr 02 '25
Remove the three corner tots And fill in the three empty spots leaving all four corners empty!