The Truth About the Origin of the Potato Chip
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The prevailing story of the origin of the potato chip starts in Saratoga Springs, New York, a historically affluent and resort community. It was 1853, eight years before the beginning of the Civil War. Known for its mineral springs and their supposed rejuvenation properties, Saratoga Springs had just started becoming a tourist destination with help of the railroad that cut through the town. Resorts, inns, restaurants, and spas had begun to crop up along the shores of Saratoga Lake. Moon’s Lake House, owned by Cary Moon, was one of the finest of those restaurants. Vacationers and wealthy summer home owners visited the restaurant often. At the restaurant, two people shared the cooking responsibilities, Catherine “Aunt Kate” Weeks and her brother (or brother-in-law, depending on who’s telling the story), George Crum.
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You are just dumping on Upstate NY, aren't you!
This is not the Real origin of the potato chip please delete and do thorough research before you u upload
while the potato chips origin is debatable , PLEASE STOP spredading misinformation and CULTURAL APROPIATION , the so called "french fries or "belgium fries"o or wathever term european and americans named these type of potato fries are originated from south america in peru in fact our natives ate these type of fries as early as 900 hundreds boiled with corn oil , its very DISGUSTING the lvl of ultural apropiation europeans dare to name french fries when these type of potato cut were made by native south americans , not only the europeans brought diseases , death , rapes when they colonized our lands now we have to put up with cultural apropiation , the BEST vegetables were sown by our natives (tomatoes, potatoe, corn) all orginated here in south and central america even things like cigars and chocolate were invented by our natives , so please i v seen in many videos calling french fries when these type of food was invented by my ancestors not europeans that stole our lands and recipes too
The earliest known recipe for potato chips is in William Kitchiner's cookbook The Cook's Oracle, first published in 1817, which was a bestseller in England and the United States. The 1822 edition's version of recipe 104 is called "Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings" and reads "peel large potatoes, slice them about a quarter of an inch thick, or cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping".[2][3] Early recipes for potato chips in the United States are found in Mary Randolph's Virginia House-Wife (1824),[4] and in N.K.M. Lee's Cook's Own Book (1832),[5] both of which explicitly cite Kitchiner.[6]
The earliest known recipe for something similar to today's potato chips is in William Kitchiner's cookbook The Cook's Oracle, first published in 1817, which was a bestseller in England and the United States. The 1822 edition's version of recipe 104 is called "Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings" and reads "peel large potatoes, slice them about a quarter of an inch thick, or cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping".
What really blew me away awhile back, and I guess it shouldn't be such a surprise, is how easy and delicious homemade chips are. Use a potato peeler, keep going into the potato, throw the slices into hot oil, take out after a little bit. toss some salt on or other flavors, bam, better than any bag of chips you've ever had.
Thanks for the origin story. It would be cool to see a documentary about how the major "snack-belt" compaines (Utz, Frito Lay, Herr's) got started and managed to survive competition with each other. But I guess that would be a lecture more suited to a channel like "Company Man"
Now you have to do a video about why they're called crisps in the U.K. but chips in the US and what they're called everywhere else in the world.
Because crisps are a U.K. invention.
As there is a English recipe book dated 1817 that states “heat dripping or lard and add potatoes thinly sliced or shavings, keep moving in the hot oil until.... CRISP”.
When you follow the recipe you get crisps.
1817. 🇬🇧
In India is Potaro Wafer xddd
@@MrSmid888 no it’s not, If u look it up, chips was created in 1853 Saratoga Springs
@@justint1474 I think 1817 trumps 1853 🤷🏻♂️
And I’ve no doubt someone fried thinly sliced potatoes before 1817. But the “origin” definitely isn’t in this video. I’ve seen the written recipe book from 1817 on a cooking tv show.
@@MrSmid888 regardless they were commercially sold under the name "chips" decades before frites/fries were popular in the UK and Ireland. I'm fine with people in the UK and Ireland still calling these crisps but calling frites/fries chips is just silly and wasn't a think until WWII.
I remember hearing this story in middle school. Our teacher would read these stories from a book that had a bunch of like "amazing stories" in it.
Scudder sold her business for 5 million instead of 9 million dollars to ensure her employees' job security. Respect
The version i heard was that an irish businessman in the mid 1800s was having a meal with a british businessman in france,
The irishman ordered potatoes, scoffed them all and ordered more, when the chef informed him that they were out of spuds the businessman ordered him to fry up the peels.
Probably were the term french fries came from.
Always enjoy your videos. The research you seem to do, amazes me. Great job!
the orgin of of my excesive waistline
Yeah, not my favorite super hero origin story but still good compared to some of the newer ones.
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LOL Colin! I literally laughed out loud at your comment, that is damn funny !!
My son, I'm proud
and better lovestory than twilight
hes like the British version of that Vsauce guy
Fritz Smith lol
Or vice versa. Simon's been doing videos longer.
yea.
not really
simon doesn't go way off topic and deeply philosophical all the god damn time.
Hey, vsauce.....Michael here.
I already knew some of this from watching tl;dr but it's always great to get a deeper insight
Recipes for crisps / chips appear in Victorian cookery / cook books that pre-date the time of this story. Cheers...
Saratoga springs is my hometown. So much history there.
Mine too!
I wrote a report for history and used the information provided from this video. Oh and our teacher told us to do a report on an invention in the 1800s, I got an 94 on the report, Thanks
Why are Canadians coming considered so nice and kind?
Because we are!
Eric Quast everyone ? if it's everyone that you deal perhaps its not them, perhaps it's you ?
Up in the UP, eh.
Personally, I blame SCTV. You know, the show that gave the world Bob and Doug McKenzie.
Good beer.
As an Australian, I would love to know the origin of vegemite
Luxus909 My great great grandfather fucked up with yeast, mind blowned
That is fascinating, apparently Australia imported Marmite until World War 1 and due to a lack of supply the company Fred Walker & Co took advantage of the gap in the market. Both tastes bloody awful but each to their own.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegemite#cite_note-1
Luxus909 someone barfed in a jam container.
+Luxus909 It is not a secret, just look it up.
Ireland is the birth place for adding the first flavours to the Potato chips by Joe Murphy of Tayto.
A nice bit of tayto
I remember that nickelodeon had this short origin shorts during breaks back in the late 90's and chips was one of those.
I remember my parents had a tub for Charlie Chips which were also delivered to homes. I don't recall seeing any deliveries myself. I just remember the reusable container.
Japanese potatoes are scarce because Hokkaido hardly ever gets typhoon, but now, Calbee factories are closing down temporarily.
I really like to learn about the muddled history of foods. You should do a video on poutine.
As a local of Saratoga Springs, I'd like to say that the tale we commonly accept was that the place it took place at was the Gideon Putnam Hotel (a local old af hotel in the state park)
Yeah i live near there and i heard that story too, just wish it was a bit more true
FYI the greenscreen light is so strong it's shining on you, causing your glasses to disappear sometimes
Do you know that potato chip bags swell when you drive up into the Colorado Rockies? Sometime they bust open. Thanks for your videos!
This is a good episode. Layers upon layers, feints within feints.
Balderdash! I invented potato chips in 1817 Saratoga shortly before falling asleep in the magical woods for 200 years and only recently waking up.
The green screening in this one is a tad distracting.
That aside I am rather disappointed that the story is a myth. I rather enjoyed the idea of potato chips being created as a culinary F U to an obnoxious customer.
Random American What's wrong with the green screening? It seems like the same to me.
Perhaps I've just not noticed it in other videos, but the edges here don't blend with the background. Also when Simon turns his head to the side, the edge of his glasses disappears.
Don't you like obnoxious customers? Ironic that you are being one then eh?
It was proved that we in the UK were eating them back in 1813, a book with a recipe for ' shaved potato fried in oil' was published then, as we had potatoes way before the US was discovered it's not suprising...
How could you have potatoes before the US was discovered when potatoes are indigenous to South America? Anyway, "crisps" are a derivation of Belgian frites, but still it is a total revisionist lie that some mixed race non-white invented them in the USA when they were in Europe decades before he was born.
@@mjverostek1278The Americas were re-discovered centuries before the US was founded
Simon Whistler's head looks like a very smart egg that has a beard, wears glasses and can talk. A very smart ostrich egg.
There are recipes of thinly sliced fried potatoes in French recipe books in the early 1800s, the Great British Bake off 2016 did a cover of this :)
Chips were actually invented in England in 1817. There is a cook book with them in it.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_chip
Great, now I want crisps. Thanks a lot!
I have several of the Great Courses. They are really quite good.
The potato chip was invented by Seamus O'Turing as a processor for his SPUDIVAC computer in the early 19th century. Production costs were too high, unfortunately, leading him to close his Dublin factor after only a greasy handful of sales.
Gotta respect someone who turns down that much extra profit for the sake of her employees. Wow.
I remember I learned about this on a shitty standardized test (it was a reading test). Specifically the angry unnamed customer version.
I think that's where I learned it too, because I've been familiar with that story for a long time
same
I don't know the exact story either. I live in Albany, so Saratoga Springs is fairly local to me and I've heard the stories for many years...
I grew up with a similar story to the one from Saratoga in detail but the chef was Napoleons. He wanted to offend his patron by serving him such thinly sliced potatoes but luckily for him, Napoleon loved them.
This was a lot more detailed than I thought it was going to be xD
is it me or is the back drop eating Simon's Glass frames when he turns his head a bit?
I've read that in Peru that, in their 8000-year history with potatoes they fried them several times throughout history
I'm glad you use the correct term: chips.
please talk about how they make and apply flavouring to crisps
Great video, as always, but I do need to make one correction. Bud Selig's name is pronounced Sealig, not Sellig. The reason I know this is because Bud Selig's grandfather Simon started a chemical company in Atlanta Georgia in 1896, when Simon Selig was 16 years old,. and I am a retiree from that company. Selig Industries was later merged with our sister company, Zep Sales and Service, so I guess technically I'm a Zep retiree.
Lol... Mary Lou Whitney. Sincerely, a Saratoga Resident
It's probably just like certain slang words come about. It might have started in a random kitchen where some guy in the UK was stoned and decided he wanted chips, but very thin. This happens independently in several places since its not exactly a difficult concept to come up with and it spreads virally. Then some restaurant does their own take on stoner food and they get credit for it because its documented or well-known.
The New York Tribune and his biography are the proof that he didn't invent them. No one can ever know who invented them but what we can know is that we can enjoy them today.
Anyone else hungry after watching this? (Thanks for another great video!)
I actually live near Saratoga Springs in Hudson Falls, NY
This isn’t the case.
As there is a English recipe book dated 1817 that states “heat dripping or lard and add potatoes thinly sliced or shavings, keep moving in the hot oil until.... CRISP”.
When you follow the recipe you get crisps.
1817. 🇬🇧
INTERESTING!!! i didn't know about the nitrogen in the bags. When I was a kid, chips had a little packet of what looked like charcoal in the bag; presumably a dessicant that the nitrogen replaced.
I grew up about 40 minutes away from Saratoga Springs and had no clue they lay claim to the potato chip.
Yo Simon looking like Vsauce today
Finally a topic that is of real importance. Crisps should be a" food group".
Thumbs up for the title alone.
Do French Fries next. XD
Thank you so much for mentioning Laura Scudder and pronouncing Ukiah correctly. Her and her husband Charles owned a restaurant named "The Little Davenport" here for a number of years in the 1910's into the 1920's. It was here, in Ukiah, that Laura became an attorney, the first female to practice law in Mendocino County and one of only a handful outside of San Francisco in Northern California at the time.
Anybody else remember the 1st origin story from a standardized reading test?
Aaron Dixson 🙋🙋
Yea, the only test i ever enjoyed
Me
Two questions: Why is "French vanilla" called that, and is there a difference between the flavors of "vanilla" and "French vanilla"?
late reply. But yest. IIRC, Vanilla comes from the vanilla bean. It is very potent. Vanilla extract comes from this. French Vanilla I believe was made from boiling the using cream and sugar plus the bean. The bean is soaked in milk, then boiled together and added to caramalized sugar. That gives it the french vanilla creamy sweetness. Normal vanilla is very fragrant, overpowering, and far less sweet. Think something like licorice.
@@yummychips_ Thanks! Knowing there is a difference and that French vanilla is sweeter explains a lot. I prefer French vanilla ice cream to just plain vanilla, and now I know why!
FANTASTIC. Keep it up...👏👍
I love the passive aggressive behavior that started the potato chip. Makes this AMERICAN CLASSIC all the sweeter.
It's like they didn't watch the video
It's almost like that's not true
Your telling me.. Getting pissed means you have a chance of inventing something? I'm in! Time to play Getting Over It by Bennet Foddy
hey so how did the words "former" and "latter" come to mean the first and last things ina list?
Bonus fact re the inventor of the wax paper potato chip bag: In the 1970s the company used a jungle saying "The best things in life come from Mr Scudder's wife." Actually Laura Scudder never married and Scudder was he father's name. This goes to show how companies mangle their own history, whether intentionally or inadvertantly.
It took me so long to realize. I thought they were just random doppelgängers! I'm so stupid. Isn't this guy in VisualPolitik EN or something? I love that channel.
the video looks lot brighter and clearer to me. anyone else?
Yes! More Baseball related videos!
I'd love to see the tomatos introduction to europe.
Unbelievable. Next thing you'll be saying the chicken wing wasn't invented in Buffalo!
Great video! Little bit of input from me though, at the end of your videos instead of Simon just disappearing could he not just walk off screen? Just feels a little unnatural when you just blip out of existence... unless that isn't editing and that's just how Simon moves around ;)
well I guess the "to protect them during shipping detail explains the "Y U no fill whole bag" question
The origin of the crisps dates further back than that incident proved by recipes created during the British colonies of America. There are still cookbooks you can buy from this era but in reprints. Check out jonsons and sons for this, they have some facts you can see for yourself
@The Truth Is Out Now 777 look at that, just more proof that "today I found out" are full of bullshit story's found on fb feeds...
I actually vividly remember learning this exact story as a child from a nickelodeon animated education commercial.
Wanted to make sure they weren't full of shit because I've told this origin story many times lol.
i knew this because it was on a school standardized test😂
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I live in Saratoga NY. I always have. I grew up hearing this story.
How about a video on fries (wrongly called french fries) as next topic?
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I wrote several books about the Saratoga area, and actually this video is very accurate. There is no evidence that Crum invented the potato chip, much to my disappointment!
And to most Americans that are disappointment that the brits invented them
Anyone else prefer Simon to the other guy?
I do
meeeeeeee. Simon ftw
yeah. i tend to skip the other guy's videos
Yea, the other guy comes off as a bit awkward when it comes to speaking. Simon seems to be more of a natural.
The other guy reminds me of Kenneth from 30 Rock. That's not a bad thing x
How many times did you watch the video before you noticed that every time he looks left the left side if his glasses disappear?
now that is a crispy video ,i enjoyed it ^^
bless that man
Who else is hungry potato chips/crisps now?!?
What brand and style of shirt is that? I like the cut.
I wanted a bonus fact that explains why Brits call Potato Chips "Crisps". Great video
I remember when Nickelodeon tried to sell this story, but they tried to say it was a medieval European restaurant with this exact same tale
Today I found out can you do a video on The Origin of Doritos?
Despite all the bragging claims for origin of the potato chip or crisp, I'm sure the Inca people had fried potato in L Lama fat or guinea pig oil at some time and discovered the chip thousands of years ago. Especially since they where the first to cultivate and use the potato as a staple food long before anybody else.
Good point
I get crazy hungry watching videos like this one. Must resist eating potato chips . . . must resist. . . oh, maybe just one... Mmmmm! Oh, nooooo!
they are called taytos
joe daly In Spanish they're called totopos.
dia duit
Cáca Milis sa Seomra Spraoi ar bhaith leat caca milis?
I'm from Saratoga. Can confirm.
SO THAT'S WHY THEY'RE HALF AIR
There is but one thing you need to know about potato chips. South central Pennsylvania.
No mention of Tayto?
And here is a fact from Q.I. The crisp was invented by John Smith in 1920 in the UK. That's why the 1st sold mass made crisps where called Smiths Crisps in the UK?
if you go to McDonald's in the UK, does the menu have french fries or chips?
I'm not sure in the UK but in Australia those are fries because they're too weird to be called chips. Chips are much chunkier. Wedges even chunkier still. No-one but maccas does maccas style cooked potatoes here, so they can keep their trade name of fries all to themself & we'll call everything else chips
geebsterswats mcD's sell fries chips are different
Thanks Simon, great video and so many bonus facts!
Now we need a video about pork crackling