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During the early 19th century, fried potatoes were a popular menu item. In 1853, a diner at Moon's Lake House in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., ordered fried potatoes with his meal. The diner, (rumored to have been Cornelius Vanderbilt), sent them back to the kitchen with a complaint that they were not crispy enough. The chef at the restaurant, George Crum, apparently did not take criticism well, so he sliced the potatoes as paper-thin as possible, salted them heavily, and fried them. Ironically, instead of ruining the meal for the diner as he had hoped, Crum's creation was a hit, and was the beginning of the potato chip (crisps) craze.

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