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Potato Chips - Snack of the Nation! Can you believe this? An act of nastiness led to the invention of one of the most popular snack foods of all time, America's national snack. Potato chips resulted from a cook's moment of anger!
The Anger Story Potato chip was invented in 1853 by George Crum, who was head chef at Moon's Lake House, a resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. On that fateful day, a customer boldly complained that Crum's French fries were "too thick and soggy" and "not salty enough." The angered cook set out to wreak some culinary vengeance. He sliced potatoes paper-thin, fried them to a singed crisped brown, salted the living daylights out of them, and dumped them in front of the hard-to-please diner. The customer tried one, smiled, then helped himself to the rest of them. Thus were born Saratoga Chips, as Crum's unintended invention came to be called. Saratoga chips remained a local delicacy until the Prohibition era, when an enterprising salesman named Herman Lay popularized the product throughout the Southeast. The whispered assertions that potato chips were an aphrodisiac did not diminish his sales. Even true stories always leave room for 'versions', and this one is no exception. According to the lore that has sprung up around this tale, the hard-to-please customer in Saratoga Springs was none other than railroad magnate Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Not true. The first fellow to taste a potato chip was just an ordinary guy off the street who chose the wrong (right?) day to piss off the cook. Fact: Americans reportedly eat an average of six pounds of potato chips per person each year. "Teddy Bear" the World-famous toy is named after a US President - Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt.
In November 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt and some of his friends went on a hunting trip to Mississippi. After hours of searching, Roosevelt and his group had not come across any wild animals. Finally, the group did track down and surrounded a helpless bear. One of the guides asked the President to shoot the bear so he could win a hunting trophy. The President refused, and news reporters throughout the country spread the story of Roosevelt's kind act. The event was the subject of a cartoon by Clifford Berryman of the Washington Post with a caption 'Drawing the Line in Mississippi'
Thus was born one of the largest selling toys. Nowadays, everyone knows these toys as Teddy Bears, but very few people know that they were named after President Theodore “"Teddy"” Roosevelt. From now, you and I are among those blessed few !!! Why is it that Grocery coupons have a cash value of 1/100th of a cent? History of Grocery Coupons Those were the days of depression, say around 1937. Food items were distributed as ration. Books of Stamps (like coupons) were issued to citizens. Some merchants were smart. They claimed that their books of stamps were worth much more than they really were. They would then sell merchandise through catalogues at greatly inflated prices.
Manufacturers had two choices: make separate coupons for Kansas, or print a cash value on every coupon. Do folks really try to redeem coupons for the lofty sum of 1/100th of a cent? Hmmm… I don’t think anybody will do that.
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