When I came home from my last class, I sat myself down thinking I should get some work done. I didn’t eat all day so I figured I’d have a snack before grabbing some dinner after finishing my blog post. I took out my second favorite type of chips, Mesquite bbq kettle cooked Lay’s chips and started chomping away. By the way my favorite food is the potato because it is so universal. You can eat it in so many forms! I’ll never get sick of eating potatoes. Anyways….. While filling my tummy with potato goodness, I scrolled through articles like “ten accidental inventions that were discovered” to find a topic I would like to write about. One article named the top ten things that they thought was the best accidental invention. While I was scrolling down the list, number 8 was the potato chip. I looked at my hand filled with this delicious invention. I found what I was writing about. So today I will write about how the potato chip was invented. As you already know, it was accidental. However, it was made with revenge in mind. The potato chip was made in a fancy restaurant in the Moon Lake Lodge at Saratoga Springs, New York. On August 24, 1853, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt had a complaint about his french-fried potatoes. He sent his potatoes back to the chef, Native American George Crum. It was too thick, and it was soggy too. Then, chef Crum cut Cornelius’ potatoes thinner and gave him the dish to eat. Still, snooty Cornelius thought they were not thin enough. By this time, Crum was aggravated. In his anger, Crum cut the potatoes paper thin, fried them to a crisp and dumped in a bunch of salt. Also during that time, eating with your hands was shameful, and Crum’s vengeful potatoes were difficult to eat with utensils. However, his devious plan backfired. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt absolutely loved it. He called it “crunch potato slices”. Gaining popularity, these Saratoga chips became a house special, and later Crum created his own restaurant and packaged his chips.
People always say that nothing good comes from revenge. Also I hear that food made with love tastes so much better than food made with hate. However, almost 161 years later potato chips have become America’s favorite snack. I find it interesting that a new food was created through revenge.
SOURCES:
http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/potatochips.htm
http://www.thenibble.com/REVIEWS/main/snacks/chip-history2.asp
Surprisingly, potato chips aren’t one of my favorite foods. I just don’t go gaga over them. Perhaps their negative origin is actually contributing to obesity in some weird way? Also, I think your post would be easier to digest (get it?) if you split your first monster paragraph into bite size chunks. Happy munching!!
First of all, those are my favorite potato chips also! Second, I never knew that this was how potato chips were invented and it’s actually pretty cool. The fact that they were made for revenge is also pretty funny. You never really think of food as being revenge.