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[Leonmc0708]

Not too long ago at all, just about 150 years. That may seem like a long time, but when you consider that folks have been growing potatoes for around 4500 years in Peru, it took the world a while to figure out how to deep fry them and sell billions of chips.

French fries came first. They had been popular in France since the 1700s and came to America with Thomas Jefferson after his stint as an ambassador in France. The story goes that one night in 1853 at a fancy resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, a wealthy diner sent back his French fries, claiming they were too thick. The chef, an American Indian named George Crum tried to make a thinner fry but the picky patron sent those back too.

So then Crum got really fed up and sliced a potato so finely you couldn't even pick them up with a fork. Surprise--the guy liked them. So did everyone else, and they soon became known as Saratoga Chips. Crum went on to open his own restaurant but chips didn't become a widely available snack food until 1925 when a mechanical potato slicer was invented that could cut potatoes to 55/1000 of an inch. Waxed bags came along right about then, too. So next time you get to the bottom of a delicious bag of chips, and see Crum's crumbs, remember this story.

[anfieldadorer]

It is believed that potatoes were first prepared in this way by George Crum, a chef at the Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853. He was fed up with a customer who continued to send his fried potatoes back, because they were too thick. Crum decided to slice the potatoes so thin that they couldn't be eaten with a fork. Against Crum's expectation the guest was ecstatic about the chips. They became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name Saratoga Chips. They soon became popular throughout New England.

A mass marketed potato chip could not become popular until the 1920s when the mechanical potato peeler was invented. This product was developed by Herman Lay, a travelling saleman in the U.S. south. Potato chips generate a sizable amount of revenue in the American snack food industry, with hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the food being sold every year.

[dawson99]

For several decades after their creation, potato chips were largely a Northern dinner dish. In the 1920s, Herman Lay, a traveling salesman in the South, helped popularize the food from Atlanta to Tennessee. Lay peddled potato chips to Southern grocers out of the trunk of his car, building a business and a name that would become synonymous with the thin, salty snack. Lay's potato chips became the first successfully marketed national brand, and in 1961 Herman Lay, to increase his line of goods, merged his company with Frito, the Dallas-based producer of such snack foods as Fritos Corn Chips.

Americans today consume more potato chips (and Fritos and French fries) than any other people in the world; a reversal from colonial times, when New Englanders consigned potatoes largely to pigs as fodder and believed that eating the tubers shortened a person's life—not because potatoes were fried in fat and doused with salt, today's heart and hypertension culprits, but because the spud, in its unadulterated form, supposedly contained an aphrodisiac which led to behavior that was thought to be life shortening. Potatoes of course contain no aphrodisiac, though potato chips are frequently consumed with passion and are touted by some to be as satisfying as sex.

[112-1077774096]

crisps were invented by mike walker after his disasterous spell as everton manager, realising he was not able to manage a football club he turned his attentions to another trade.

he stumbled on crisps by accident, only able to afford one potato for some chips, he sliced it too thin but decided to fry it up anyway and thus invented the crisp, he used his old football contacts to market the product and so the walkers crisp was born allowing the boy line acre to make some post football cash.

the above is true 

[JBG]

And his son Ian stands to inherit the grand sum of £376.89 from the Walker crisp fortune.

Maybe now he can afford a decent haircut.

[Leonmc0708]

His bird is hot stuff though JBG.

[Dom1]

i usually take about 8 to 10 minutes on the average pack of walkers!!

...unless im hungry!

[taff]

i usually take about 8 to 10 minutes on the average pack of walkers!!

...unless im hungry!

Do you use chopsticks

[Leonmc0708]

i usually take about 8 to 10 minutes on the average pack of walkers!!

...unless im hungry!

Do you use chopsticks

No CHIPsticks....



Boom Boom

[taff]

[112-1077774096]

i usually take about 8 to 10 minutes on the average pack of walkers!!

...unless im hungry!

Do you use chopsticks

No CHIPsticks....



Boom Boom

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