March 14th National Potato Chip Day

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In 1853 a customer complained his potatoes were too thick and soggy. The chef, George Crum decided to cut them very thin and fry them. The customers loved them. He then put them on the menu under name "Saratoga Chips".

Some say first potato chips were a recipe in Mary Randolph's "The Virginia Housewife" (1824). Mike-sell's a Dayton, Ohio Company says it is the oldest potato chip company in America. They started in 1910.

Whoever invented potato chips, they are America's favorite snack.

Be sure to have some potato chips today.
 
George Crum was a Mohawk/African American who had a most interesting life! He never patented his invention but it was always a part of every meal he cooked while working as a chef. After going through several companies the potato chip was finally picked up by Laura Scudder, the first woman lawyer in California. She had a lot of trouble getting insurance for her delivery trucks - women are so flaky with payments, you know! - but a woman insurance agent picked her up and, as they say, the rest is history!

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Here is a recipe for Potato Chip Cookies:

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Source: http://www.wheatlandumc.org/pages/history/links/recipes/recipes.htm

(I think that 10 cent bag of chips is a LOT more now! Probably means the individual size.)

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Found it! It's a regular size bag today. Whoa - that's somebody's granny's recipe - that was the price of a bag of chips in 1950! :laugh:
 
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Y'all will hate me for this:

Quick & Easy chocolate covered potato chips

Ingredients:


2 cups of your favorite chocolate chips or broken chocolate bar
2 TBS butter
6-8 oz of your favorite potato chips

Directions:

Combine chocolate chips and butter in a micowaivable container, heat for about 2 minutes or until melted.
Stir until smooth
Dip chips and remove excess chocolate
Place on wax paper and let in room temperature for 15-20 minutes
Refrigerate until set



better than this (which is not that bad) :
 
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Y'all will hate me for this:

Quick & Easy chocolate covered potato chips

Ingredients:

2 cups of your favorite chocolate chips or broken chocolate bar
2 TBS butter
6-8 oz of your favorite potato chips

Directions:

Combine chocolate chips and butter in a micowaivable container, heat for about 2 minutes or until melted.
Stir until smooth
Dip chips and remove excess chocolate
Place on wax paper and let in room temperature for 15-20 minutes
Refrigerate until set

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better than this (which is not that bad) :

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I don't get this, nor do I get bacon dipped in chocolate. Too weird.
 
Y'all will hate me for this:

Quick & Easy chocolate covered potato chips

Ingredients:

2 cups of your favorite chocolate chips or broken chocolate bar
2 TBS butter
6-8 oz of your favorite potato chips

Directions:

Combine chocolate chips and butter in a micowaivable container, heat for about 2 minutes or until melted.
Stir until smooth
Dip chips and remove excess chocolate
Place on wax paper and let in room temperature for 15-20 minutes
Refrigerate until set

DSC_7608.jpg

better than this (which is not that bad) :

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Oh my gosh you're right. These are so easy they are gonna have to wheel me around in a cart.
 
Yes, but I never thought that eating cardboard was too healthy for you. :wink:

That's an interesting subject :smile:

Lots of "healthy" bread alternatives, like low carb, high fiber breads and flatbreads are using exactly that (These guys included). Plus many other foods you would not know, like fruit-look alike deserts. Look at ingredients: if you see something called "cellulose gum", it is cardboard, or wood shavings or saw dust or the like, treated with acetic acid and desiccated/dehydrated before added to food.
 
That's an interesting subject :smile:

Lots of "healthy" bread alternatives, like low carb, high fiber breads and flatbreads are using exactly that. Plus many other foods you would not know, like fruit-look alike deserts. Look at ingredients: if you see something called "cellulose gum", it is cardboard, or wood shavings or saw dust or the like, treated with acetic acid and desiccated/dehydrated before added to food.

Woah! I was just being snarky. Well... learn something new every day!
 
Y'all will hate me for this:

Quick & Easy chocolate covered potato chips

Ingredients:

2 cups of your favorite chocolate chips or broken chocolate bar
2 TBS butter
6-8 oz of your favorite potato chips

Directions:

Combine chocolate chips and butter in a micowaivable container, heat for about 2 minutes or until melted.
Stir until smooth
Dip chips and remove excess chocolate
Place on wax paper and let in room temperature for 15-20 minutes
Refrigerate until set

DSC_7608.jpg

better than this (which is not that bad) :

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I know a guy that ate a couple of bags of these and then went out into the cold and immediately congealed to death!
 
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