Potato Chips

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Potato Chips

• By Matthew

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Americans spend almost 4 billion every year in a
treat we know potato chips.
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• One day a customer kept sending his plate of
  fried potatoes back to the kitchen asking that
  they be sliced thinner and fried longer. George
  Crum had a bad temper and he decided to get even
  with that complaining diner. He sliced the
  potatoes very thin, fried them till they were
  curly crisps, and salted them. Certain the guest
  would hate them, he had potatoes delivered to the
  table. To everyone's surprise, the patron was
  delighted and asked for more.
• Word spread quickly of these crispy potatoes and
  until the early 1900s they were known as Saratoga
  chips after the town where they were introduced.

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• One day a man named George Peterson who owned a
  grocery store was making dinner for his family
  and friends. He was making thin potato slices
  until he realized he cut them too thin, George
  didnt have enough time to cut them over again so
  he just used the ones he just cut. Then, he put
  them in his fryer and left the kitchen to talk to
  his friends and accidentally left them for to
  long. He hurried into his kitchen he took the pot
  out and there he noticed they were very thin and
  crispy potatoes. He gave them to everyone and was
  worried they would dislike them but they actually
  ended up appreciating Georges creation. After
  that, he started making them for his small shop
  at the corner of his block and selling them as
  Peterson Potatoes", named after his last name.

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• Did you guess which ones the real one?

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• Well, if you chose the first one you are
  correct!!!

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Today over 816 million pounds of potato chips are
consumed in the United States each year. A total
of 3.468 billion pounds of potatoes end up as
Americas number one snack food potato chips.
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• Thats all folks!!!