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Claim: Potato chips resulted from a cook's moment of pique.

Status: True.

Origins: An act of spite led to the invention in 1853 of one of the most popular snack foods of all time. Potato chips were the innovation of George Crum, head chef at Moon's Lake House, a resort in Saratoga Springs, New York. On that fateful day, a customer had the temerity to complain 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.

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