Chips you say? The best snack? The snack of the gods?

 Chips you say? The best snack? The snack of the gods? You bet they are, no better snack exists. Whoever looked at a dirty brown potato and said hmmm, I can make that so good you won’t be able to stop eating them. That man is a king, perchance a god, in my book. They are so good in fact that everyone claims them as their Idea.


Wikipedia Tells Us:

"The potato chip was invented in 1853 by George Crum. AKA George Speck Crum was a Native American/African American chef at the Moon Lake Lodge resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. French fries were popular at the restaurant and one day a diner complained that the fries were too thick."

BUT.. 

JSTOR Daily Tells us 

 

A New York Herald report from the Lake House in July of 1849 introduced readers to “Eliza, the cook,” whose “potato frying reputation is one of the prominent matters of remark at Saratoga.” “Who would think,” the Herald reporter wrote, “that simple potatoes could be made such a luxury!”

 

Recipes for frying potato slices were published in several cookbooks in the 19th century. In 1832, a recipe for fried potato "shavings" was included in a United States cookbook derived from an earlier English collection. William Kitchiner's The Cook's Oracle (1822), also included techniques for such a dish. Similarly, N.K.M. Lee's cookbook, The Cook's Own Book (1832), has a recipe that is very similar to Kitchiner's.

 In the present we may never know who "invented" chips but we know we like them. How many different chip flavors and styles are there? Umm I dont have that answer. 

I know that you can get standard and strange flavors. International flavors like Hot and sour lemon braised chicken feet flavor.

You bet, I kid you not CHICKEN FEET FLAVORED CHIPS. Not high on my list of snacks but Id try them. 

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