Q 01/05

The earliest known recipe for potato chips appears in a book published in London in which year?

A) 1789

B) 1801

C) 1817

D) 1853

Answer · why

C) 1817

William Kitchiner's The Cook's Oracle called them 'Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings', cut round and round 'as you would peel a lemon'.

Q 02/05

Legend credits the potato chip to a cook at Moon's Lake House in which New York resort town?

A) Saratoga Springs

B) Lake Placid

C) Niagara Falls

D) Cooperstown

Answer · why

A) Saratoga Springs

The 1853 story is a myth: the Moons did not even own the Lake House until 1854, and the supposed customer, Cornelius Vanderbilt, was in Europe.

Q 03/05

The 1973 ad campaign that spread the Saratoga myth was run by what kind of company?

A) A potato-growing cooperative

B) A passenger railroad

C) A resort hotel chain

D) A packaging manufacturer

Answer · why

D) A packaging manufacturer

St. Regis Paper made bags for chips; it also introduced the claim that the annoyed diner was Cornelius Vanderbilt.

Q 04/05

The cook at the centre of the Saratoga legend, known as George Crum, was born under what surname?

A) Moon

B) Speck

C) Wicks

D) Vanderbilt

Answer · why

B) Speck

He later opened his own restaurant, Crum's, in nearby Malta and did serve 'Saratoga chips' there.

Q 05/05

Which Dayton, Ohio company, founded in 1910, calls itself the oldest US potato chip maker?

A) Utz Quality

B) Mikesell's

C) Wise Foods

D) Jays Foods

Answer · why

B) Mikesell's

New Hampshire's Granite State Potato Chip Factory was older, founded in 1905, but closed in 2007.