Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Basket of tater tots - Msphotographic/Getty Images Salmon, grunge music, Sydney Sweeney -- the Pacific Northwest has given America ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cooked tater tots on a black plate - Drong/Getty Images There have been instances throughout history of amazing foods born from ...

There are foods that, if you believe the origin stories, came into being by accident, when a cook replaced a common ingredient with something novel, or someone left a dish to burn or freeze too long.

There have been instances throughout history of amazing foods born from byproducts. One such example is the ingenious origin of tater tots, which were created using potato scraps the founders of ...