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Thursday
The humble potato chip is more popular in America than in any other part of the world. America's favorite snack food, it is a direct descendant of another popular potato snack, the french fry. How did it happen?
According to the popular story, a dinner guest (rumored to have been wealthy railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt) was dining at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York in 1853. He sent his french fries back to the kitchen because they were too thick. The chef, a man named George Crum, was annoyed at the guest's complaint, so he responded by slicing the potatoes into extremely thin sections, which he fried in oil and salted.
From that day forward, potato chips evolved into the many forms and varieties we have today including chips of many flavors, fat-free potato chips cooked in high-tech synthetic chemicals, and even artificially shaped chips pressed from potato pulp and sold in cardboard tubes.