What's your favorite salty snack? Are you a potato chip lover?
Pop Corn person? Or pretzels?
And why do we love salty snacks so much in the first place?
But wait - there's more!
Here's the AHA! moment ...
Dip don't chip.
Grab some veggies and a side of Ranch dressing. Then dive in and dip.
If you've got it - try dipping with some Pita Bread or pretzels. All right, already - if you must chip - go for tortilla chips. They're lower in calories than the you know what kind of chips.
But the history of salty snacks goes way, way back even before then ...
In 1853, a Native American named George Crum was working as a chef at this fancy resort restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York. A dinner guest didn't like his French fries and sent them back to the kitchen.
George thought he'd fix him. He cut the fries super thin - to thin to cut with a fork. The dinner guests loved them!
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Blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-alcohol !!! Salty snacks first became popular in bars after World War II and prohibition ended. Bars began to serve free pretzels, peanuts and chips. The salt made people thirsty so they would order more drinks.
It was illegal to produce or sell alchohol during Prohibition, from 1919-1933 in the United States.
Know Your Salty
Snacks History -
Part One:
Potato Chips!
Check this out - the first recipe for potato chips dates all the way back to 1824. That's a way long time ago! They were called "fried shavings." Maybe your chips aren't as stale as you think!
People from everywhere came to the restaurant asking for Crum's potato chips!
FACT: Sales for potato chips in America top more than $6.5 billion (that's with a "B") every year!
Salty Snack
History Facts
FACT: It takes 10,000 pounds of potatoes to make 3,500 pounds of potato chips!
