Who Invented Potato Chips?
Potato Chips were invented in 1853 by a man named George Crum at Moon’s Lake House resort in Saratoga, New York State. He sliced potatoes thinly, fried them up and served them to the guests at the resort. They were a hit. He called them “potato crunches” at first, but people began referring to them as “Saratoga Chips”. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt did not play a role in the story until approximately 1976, when someone at the American Snack Food Association appears to have “written” him in as the restaurant customer first served the chips. A mass market for potato chips, though, wasn’t possible until the invention of mechanical potato peelers. Before that, they were mostly made in restaurants, and meant to be eaten with a fork. Small “mom and pop” operations also began making them small quantities by hand and delivered them fresh daily to stores in paper bags. The first place outside America that Potato Chips were made was in the UK, in either 1913 or 1921 (two different stories exist
According to a story that may or may not be true, the first potato chips were ‘invented around 1865 by a chef in Saratoga, New York. The chef made a batch of thin-sliced potatoes for the diners at a guest house, but one of the guests kept sending the potatoes back and asking for thinner slices. So the chef cut a potato into the
