When eating a sandwich, one of the most often partners is that munchy, crunchy potato chip goodness! The perfect match. As the sandwich's best buddy, there is just one problem: It's as bad as peanuts - Betcha can't eat just one!
Legend
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| Saratoga Chips Recipe |
There is a lot of lore tied to the creation of the first potato chip, even an account connected to railroad magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest Americans in history. As legend has it, Vanderbilt was staying at a resort (Moon's Lake House) in Saratoga
Springs, New York when upon receiving an order of French fries found himself quite dismayed. Complaints to George Crum, head chef, that the fries were "too thick and too soggy" angered the chef. In retaliation to wreak culinary vengeance, Crum "sliced potatoes paper-thin,
fried them to a singed crisped brown, salted the living daylights out of them,
and dumped them in front of the hard-to-please diner." Instead of getting back at the angered customer, the plan backfired. Vanderbilt tasted one of the crunchy tidbits, smiled, and cleaned his plate of the rest! Thus was born Saratoga Chips as they soon became to be well known.
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| George Crum with "Aunt Kate" Weeks Image Source: en.wikipedia.org |
A second version cites Crum's sister, Katie Speck Wicks, as the inventor of the chip in an accident not dissimilar to the culinary misfire in which the
brownie was born (from a mix-up of cake and fudge). "Aunt Katie," who
also worked at Moon's Lake House, was frying crullers and peeling potatoes at
the same time. A thin slice of potato found its way into the frying oil for the
crullers, and Katie fished it out. Noticing the chip, Crum tasted it and said,
"Hm hm, that's good. How did you make it?" After Katie described the
accident, Crum replied, "That's a good accident. We'll have plenty of
these." [Source: Snopes.com]
The
customer tried one, smiled, then helped himself to the rest of them.
Thus were born Saratoga Chips, as Crum's unintended invention came to be
called.
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to
wreak culinary vengeance — he sliced potatoes paper-thin, fried them to
a singed crisped brown, salted the living daylights out of them, and
dumped them in front of the hard-to-please diner.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
to
wreak culinary vengeance — he sliced potatoes paper-thin, fried them to
a singed crisped brown, salted the living daylights out of them, and
dumped them in front of the hard-to-please diner.
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
"too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough."
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Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
"too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough."
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Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
"too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough."
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99":
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99":
"too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough."
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Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
"too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough."
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
"too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough."
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
"too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough."
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Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbx.99
"too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough."
Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbxChef George Crum cut his spuds as thin as possible, initially as a joke – and the result was the world’s first potato chips. The snack’s popularity spread in the 1920s, when the first mass-produced packs went on sale.
Both accounts date back to the year 1853. However, versions of fried potato slices were published in several cookbooks much earlier, 1822, 1832, and 1877.Read more at http://www.snopes.com/business/origins/chips.asp#0krEVUh3qYUTxqbxChef George Crum cut his spuds as thin as possible, initially as a joke – and the result was the world’s first potato chips. The snack’s popularity spread in the 1920s, when the first mass-produced packs went on sale.
Saratoga Chips as a local delicacy remained popular until the Prohibition era. An enterprising salesman named Herman Lay popularized the product throughout the Southeast in 1932. Lay’s Potato Chips were the first big-name brand, but today one will find
many other products on the market and a multitude of variations. It isn't clear when/who established the holiday, but chip in and join the celebration. Invite friends over to try some most unusual flavors, like seaweed, buffalo wing and ketchup. See if anyone dares eat just one!
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