Q 01/05

The earliest known potato chip recipe was printed in 1817 in a bestselling cookbook from which country?

A) France

B) England

C) Belgium

D) United States

Answer · why

B) England

England. Dr William Kitchiner's The Cook's Oracle told readers to cut potatoes 'in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon' and fry them i...

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

Saratoga Springs. The tale has a cook slicing potatoes paper-thin to spite a fussy diner in 1853, but historians note the Moon family did not even buy...

Q 03/05

A 1973 advertising campaign added which tycoon to the potato chip legend as the fussy diner?

A) John D. Rockefeller

B) Cornelius Vanderbilt

C) Andrew Carnegie

D) J. P. Morgan

Answer · why

B) Cornelius Vanderbilt

Cornelius Vanderbilt. The ad came from a paper company that made chip bags, 120 years after the supposed meal, and the real Commodore had spent that s...

Q 04/05

Which cook does legend credit with inventing the potato chip in 1853 to spite a customer who sent back his fries?

A) Hector Boiardi

B) Oscar Tschirky

C) George Crum

D) Caesar Cardini

Answer · why

C) George Crum

George Crum. Born George Speck, he really did cook at Moon's Lake House and later ran a restaurant of his own, but recipes for the chip had been in pr...

Q 05/05

Before sealed bags arrived in the 1920s, grocers usually sold potato chips loose from glass cases or what?

A) Sacks

B) Wooden crates

C) Milk churns

D) Barrels

Answer · why

D) Barrels

Barrels. By the time shoppers reached the bottom the chips were stale and broken, the very problem the first sealed bags set out to solve.