George Crum and The Amazing Potato Chip

Frustrated by a picky customer, cook George Crum cut his formerly thick fries into paper-thin potato slices. Find out how George's revenge scheme went awry -- and led to the Stuff of Genius -- in this episode.

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[MichaelDeck]

I like your animation. It makes the information easier to store and remember. I don't know if you did that on purpose or if it's just meant to be fun, but it's great either way.

[dawg]

Andrew Johnson was born in 1808. The George Crum invention of the potato chip supposedly happened in 1853. How was it that "Andrew Johnson encountered fried potatoes more than a century earlier in France"?

[ailurophila]

he atacc
he protecc
but most importantly,
he make snacc

[profhubertj.farnsworth]

It was actually William Kitchiner who invented the potato chip... The cook book 'The Cook's Oracle' was published in 1817 and contains the earliest documented recipe for the potato chip... Facts are facts.

[PureChaosGames]

So it's an accidental invention? Wow, I'm glad it did get invented! :)

[daveroker]

I thought Tayto in Ireland invented them

[FrankaDith]

So did he become rich off of his idea or did that go to some A hole who could afford to have it patent ?