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Gosh I hate to ask this - I'll look like a compulsive idiot. Oh, wait, I'm a regular contributor to an online encyclopedia, so obviously I'm compulsive. The 'idiot' part is up to individual judg(e)ment. what's the source for the first potato chip? Place? Person? It's always nice to have those connected to 'inventions.' Along with Mr. Crocker I'm opposed to lone inventors, and food based on easy concepts (slice potato thinly; fry; drain) is an excellent example of this! --MichaelTinkler, who needs to get something else to do with his life.

I've done a Google search and it turns out to be a great story: [1]. George Crum, chef in Saratoga Springs, New York, was fed up with a customer who continued to sent his fried potatoes back, because they were too thick. So Crum decided to slice the potatoes so thin that it couldn't be eaten with a fork. Against Crum's expectation the guest was ecstatic about the chips. -- Tsja

a tasty etiological myth (and set within 100 miles of my current location!). I suppose we can accept the lone invetor for now.--MichaelTinkler

Snopes is about as reliable a source as there is, I agree. --LDC

I'm very familiar with snopes, but I've had one hamless experience to show me that even there we cannot put down our guard. There was a story going around that a 1911 D. W. Griffith film called The Poseidon Adventure was being played in the second class lounge of the Titanic just before it went down. I confess that I fell for the hoax. I can't say that the snopes people themselves were responsible for this, but the article format was that used by snopes, and it included links to the Internet Movie Data Base for the various people purported to be involved in the movie. Eclecticology

I cannot remember the guy in Tayto Crisps right now; I saw a programme about it on the History Channel a long time ago. I can try to ring the company next week and find out his name. (I know when his ashes were scattered on the sea, he asked that along with them a pack of Tayto crisps be scattered as well, as his innovation in discovering a way to flavour crisps made him, in terms of today's money, a multi-billionaire. From peeling potatoes with his wife and family in a small firm one day, to being offered blank cheques from top potato chip manufacturers in a matter of weeks, is a nice thought. JTD 05:12 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)

From http://web.ukonline.co.uk/m.gratton/Famous%20Men.htm

Murphy - Joseph 'Spud' ..... born May 15th 1923 died 2001 ..... Irish entrepreneur who produced the world's FIRST cheese and onion flavoured crisps in the late 1950s. The new flavour was a huge success both at home and abroad and within two years the business moved to larger premises. His company Tayto was the FIRST company in Ireland to make and market so-called "extruded snacks"Mintguy

http://www.taytocrisps.ie/aboutus/about_history.asp. says he set the company up in 1954. Mintguy

Golden Wonder reckon they introduced flavoured crisps in 1962! http://www.goldenwonder.com/corp/ Mintguy

I just emailed Golden Wonder and told them their website is telling porkie pies. I wonder if I will get a reply. MintguyThanx. I should have guessed. The name 'Murphy' in Ireland is often nicknamed 'Spud'. (That was my old headmaster's nickname.) But I never realised that the name came from the guy who made all the millions and had American potato chip manufacturers queing on the street outside his house throwing figures out as to how much their company would pay to get their hands on his formula. Yeah. Golden Wonder and Tayto are like Coca Cola and Pepsi, forever trying to claim that they were first. But apparently Tayto were, according to RTÉ radio, the History Channel and the BBC. All I know is that Murphy revolutionised the whole process. One guy on the History channel said that before modern post-Murphy flavourings, a good potato chip tasted a bit like a stale fried potato slice, while most potato chips tasted like soggy cardboard. Then along came Murphy's innovation, and potato chips had an appeal to people who never would previously have touched potato chips because they weren't enamoured by the taste. JTD 05:48 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)

• smile* they'll probably send you a thousand packs of the things! JTD 05:48 Feb 1, 2003 (UTC)

Many do. Burger Rings, I remember, does, but I wouldn't be 100% sure on others (gee, miss Burger Rings... ;) Dysprosia 10:40, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

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