YOU KNOW, IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN FACT THAT . . .

I have to give another pooper-scooper shout-out to it's an ocean blogger Ryan M for this entry.

So we're sitting here eating a few chips and he wonders aloud, "what was the origin of the words 'chips'?" I wasn't able to find out the origin of the word but found this little blurb on the history of this crispy little morsel.

I was especially happy to see that they come, like all good things, from New York.

It is believed that the original potato chip recipe was created by chef George Crum, at Moon's Lake House near Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853. He was fed up with a customer — by some accounts Cornelius Vanderbilt — who continued to send his fried potatoes back, because they were too thick and soggy. Crum decided to slice the potatoes so thin that they couldn't be eaten with a fork. Against Crum's expectation, the guest was ecstatic about the new chips. They became a regular item on the lodge's menu under the name "Saratoga Chips".

And the rest, as they say, is history.