When is National Tater Day?
Friday March 31stNATIONAL TATER DAY
National Tater Day on March 31st is for you if you like your spuds! The day honors all varieties of potatoes that provide us with essential vitamins, minerals, and fiber.
Potatoes are incredibly versatile, which may explains why so many people like them. They are the most popular vegetable in the United States, and they are the number one consumed vegetable. When you consider how many ways we can eat the over 200 different varieties of potatoes in the United States, you shouldn't be surprised.
We can bake them first and foremost. Who doesn't like a baked potato? We see you in back, yeah, we see you in back. Take your hand down. The baked spud is a hit among the rest of us. Plus those baked potatoes? You can make them twice with all sorts of delectable toppings. Twice! We can boil them in two ways. And from the boiled potatoes, we can make soups, salads, or make mashed potatoes, one of the world's most popular potato dishes. Did you know that mashed potatoes are also used in many dishes? You can't have shepherd's pie without mashed potatoes. Dice them and slice them into strips, and we can make scalloped, fried, or even hashbrowns. We can also make hashbrowns. And then there are potato dumplings and pancakes.
Beyond all the ways we use potatoes, this day may have had a different meaning. The sweet potato was a favorite in Kentucky at the start of April (Tater Day). Sweet potatoes are one of the key cash crops in that region. With the growing and selling of sweet potatoes in the early 1840s, Tater Day dates back to the early 1840s. It is the country's oldest operating day.
