Did you know ?

Everyone loves chips whether it is finger chips or just thin sliced chips. They are salty, crispy & crunchy. You just need a pack & your friends appear from nowhere like a swarm of bees. But did you know the story behind their origin?

One day in 1853, a diner at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, ordered fried potatoes with his meal. During those days fried potatoes had gained steady popularity. But unfortunately he sent those fried potatoes back to the kitchen saying that the fried potatoes were not crunchy & were tasteless.

The chef at the restaurant, George Crum, furious over criticism sliced potatoes paper thin, salted them heavily & refried them & sent it to the diner. But instead of spoiling diners’ meal, Crums creation was a super hit with the diner, who not only loved them but reordered them.

Realising this fine delicacy was to attract customers; the owners of the place introduced them in the menu & were called "Saratoga Chips".

William Tappendon of Cleavland, is credited for taking the potato chips out of the restaurant into the grocery store. In 1895, he started the world’s first potato chip factory.

But it was Herman Lay, the man who started the HW Lay Company, now part of the Frito-Lay Corporation, who later popularised the product throughout the Southeast United States. His potato chips became the first successfully marketed national brand in the US. Today, even we have the chance of eating this wonderful delicacy which is available in different flavours to suite the customers.

Truly Lays chips are the ones which nobody can eat just once!!!!!

Compiled By: Veera D'Souza