Who invented Potatoe Chips?

  George Crum, the Chef, prepared a meal, from the restaurant’s grounds, served with french fries.

 But when the plate was presented to Vanderbilt, he refused it. The french fries were too thick, Vanderbilt said.
 
Crum did not take the criticism well. In his anger, the cook shaved the thinnest possible pieces of potato into hot oil and fried them to a crisp.

 He sent the browned and brittle rounds to the table as an insult, but Commodore Vanderbilt, as he was known, was thrilled with the novel snack. 

The proprietress Harriet Moon soon declared that these chips would henceforth be served in delicate paper cornucopias as the signature dish of Moon’s Lake House.

 In later years, Crum opened his own restaurant, Crum’s Place, nearby. 

There, millionaires like Vanderbilt would stand in line for hours for “Saratoga chips.”

More than 150 years later Crum’s delicacy has gone on to even greater fame; today, Americans consume about 1.5 billion pounds of potato chips every year.