[Sca-cooks] OT Potato Chips, was Tea water, was raised crusts

[Philip & Susan Troy]

Also sprach Chip:
>  > Sometimes this results in the unexpected. Apparently there was a
>>  customer in the northeast US who asked that his fried potatoes, ie:
>>  [snip]
>>   for them. Thus was born the American potato chip industry.
>>  Stefan li Rous
>
>www.google.com with the search phrase "George Crum"
>
>Iyad

The trouble is, that when stories like this acquire the status of
folklore, there's a certain bias against their veracity in some
circles.

For example, the Captain Ben Wenberg story about Lobster Newburgh
(note correct spelling, as in Newburgh, NY) is hogwash. Most of the
story about the Caesar Salad is probably not true, and potstickers
were probably not created by accident, either, unless their method of
preparation has changed for some reason.

I read somewhere that George Crum was not so much punishing an
annoying customer as employing already-known French techniques (this
is documentable) to keep the customer both happy and at a distance
(speculation).

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but it seems some people find it
less interesting.

Adamantius