Today is National Potato Chip Day

One of America’s favorite snack foods, the potato chip, will officially turn 158 years old this summer on August 24 — the anniversary of the date when George Crum, the chef at a resort in Saratoga Springs, New York, became frustrated by a customer (reportedly millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt) who kept sending back his french-fried potatoes for being “too soggy,” so he cut up a spud into paper-thin slices, fried them until they were hard and crunchy, and sent them out to the table.
The customer loved them, and the “chips” became Crum’s signature dish.