George Crum

George Crum (originally George Bacon, * 1822 in Saratoga Lake, New York, † ibid 1914) was the inventor of potato chips. He is referred to in some publications as African Americans, other than Indians, or should have been even German descent.

The invention of potato chips

1853 Crum cook was at Hotel Moon Lake Lodge in Saratoga Springs. Complaints of a guest out that the fried potato slices were not thin and seasoned enough, he is the sliced ​​extremely thin, have strongly flavored and so created the first potato chips. According to an urban legend, the guest Cornelius Vanderbilt should have been. The court soon enjoyed great popularity. Crum later opened a restaurant on the southern shore of Lake Saratoga Springs, where every table has a basket to have stood with his "potato crunches ". Of course, the restaurant was best known for the "potato crunches " what George Crum must have brought the idea to sell his invention in small boxes to take home.