On This Day: February 13
Today is Wednesday, February 13, 2008. This is the 44th day of the year, with 322 days remaining in 2008.
Fact of the Day: potato chips
Potato chips were invented in 1853 at Saratoga Springs, New York, where chef George Crum of Moon's Lake House shaved potatoes paper thin and sent them out to a patron who had completed that his French fries were too thick. The customers were delighted, ordered more, and encouraged Crum to open up his own restaurant. Crum's new restaurant had people standing in line to get potato chips. Wise potato chips were introduced in 1921 by grocer Earl V. Wise as a way of dealing with overstocked and old potatoes. He sold them in brown paper bags the then in cellophane starting in the 1930s
