George Speck

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  1. REDIRECT [[George "Speck" Crum was the head chef of Moon's Lake House, a resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He is now best known as the Native American/African who invented potato chips

On August 24, 1853, a customer complained that Crum's]] (potato chips) were "too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough." The angered cook could not bear the complain,so he decided to give the maximal opposite of what the client was complaining about: he sliced potatoes paper-thin, fried them to a crisp, and dropped a lot of salt on them. When the crisps were prepared, he gave them to the customer, who loved them.

The chips became very popular, and became known as Saratoga Chips. They remained a local delicacy until the Prohibition era, when an enterprising salesman named Herman Lay popularized the product throughout the Southeast United States.so we should thank mr crum for making potato

Urban legends say that the hard-to-please customer in Saratoga Springs was none other than railroad magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, but more than likely it was a much more obscure customer [1].