The potato chip is undoubtedly the fastest snack to grab for small hunger. This miraculously fantastic snack was invented by an accident. There is a story of a chef taking a rampage on his customer and inventing the most popular snack throughout the world unknowingly. It was invented in 1853 by George Crum. Crum was an American chef at the Moon Lake Lodge resort. It was in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. One of the best products at the restaurant was French fry, and one day a customer complained that the fries were too thick. Though Crum tried to make a thinner platter, the customer was not satisfied enough. Crum finally made too-thin fries to eat with a fork. He was hoping to irritate the extremely choosy customer. But the thing went differently when the customer got surprised and happy to have such a good dish and potato chips were invented!
At first Crum’s chips were called Saratoga Chips and potato crunches. They soon started to pack it and sell it in New England. Crum left the chef’s job and later opened his own restaurant. William Tappendon was a pioneer in manufacturing and marketing potato chips in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1895. In the 1920s, Herman Lay, a salesman, sold potato chips to the southern USA from the trunk of his car. Laura Scudder who was the owner of a potato chip factory in Monterey Park, California, invented a wax paper potato chip bag to keep the chips fresh and crunchy in 1926, with further technology, innovation, and a countless number of variations and flavours, potato chips have only grown in popularity over the years in every corner of this globe.
- March 14 is National Potato Chips day in the USA.
- During the Second World War, this food was about to be extinct labelled “nonessential food”. Manufacturers protested against this and kept your evening snack time deliciously crispy.
- The extra air in the chip’s packet keeps the chips crunchy and crispy as well as non-crushed.
- Only in the USA, annually, people eat about 1.85 billion pounds of potato chips, or about 6.6
pounds per person.
