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George Crum, Inventor of Potato Chips
Every time a person crunches into a potato chip, he or she is enjoying the delicious taste of one of the world's most famous snacks a treat that might not exist without the contribution of black inventor George Crum.
The son of an African-American father and a Native American mother, Crum was working as the chef in the summer of 1853 when he incidentally invented the chip. It all began when a patron who ordered a plate of French-fried potatoes sent them back to Crum's kitchen because he felt they were too thick and soft.
To teach the picky patron a lesson, Crum sliced a new batch of potatoes as thin as he possibly could, and then fried them until they were hard and crunchy. Finally, to top them off, he added a generous heaping of salt. To Crum's surprise, the dish ended up being a hit with the patron and a new snack was born!
Years later, Crum opened his own restaurant that had a basket of potato chips on every table. Though Crum never attempted to patent his invention, the snack was eventually mass-produced and sold in bags providing thousands of jobs nationwide.
http://www.black-inventor.com/George-Crum.asp
GeorgeGist
(25,311 posts)one of my favorite snacks.
citood
(550 posts)citood
(550 posts)bdamomma
(63,799 posts)ha, take that white nationalists!!
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)the person who became a biog fan of them was a fashion plated named Cornelius Vanderbilt, aka Anderson Copper's great grandpa. He became so addicted to them that the posh clubs he went to had to serve the "saratoga chips" or ELSE. You did nto want to tick off Cornelius.
http://originalsaratogachips.com/our-story/
http://www.saratoga.com/news/saratoga-chips.cfm
So oddly, the potato chip started off as a snobby food. It was not until a guy named George Lay came about that it became common. His company hooked up with one selling fried tortilla chips, or "frietas"