I kept thinking it might go somewhere, but finally gave up on it....
" 'Taters" is an English slang expression, meaning that it is bloody cold.
"Gawd, it's 'taters out there....I think me balls have dropped off"...being one way of using it.
(from 'taters in the mould = cold.....Cockney rhyming slang).
It is also used as a shortening of the word potatoes, by the dreadful working class of London.
http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/cockney/loan/221/Taters-in-the-Mould.aspx