Because, quite by accident, George Crum has invented potato chips! At last, Filbert is satisfied, proclaiming, 'Perfection!' Which they are. Feeling a bit mischievous, George decides to use his sharpest knife to cut paper-thin potato slices, which he fries until they are crackling and then showers with salt. But his picky customer sends them back again. Horsefeathers walks into George Crum's restaurant, he tells the waitress, 'I have a hankering for a heaping helping of potatoes.' Fine cook that he is, George prepares a serving of his most scrumptious, succulent and sublime potato wedges, only to have Filbert send them back. Without the contribution that George Crum and his sister Catherine Crum-Wicks made by inventing the awesome taste while biting into a potato chip you would never have experienced this great savoring flavor.When Filbert P. He died on July 22, 1914, at the age of 92, he was buried in Malta Ridge Cemetery under his birth-given name “George Speck”. George was married five various times, along with his wives and children they were also known to assist in working at the family restaurant. George was so successful that within a few years his clientele included prosperous clients. In the restaurant, he includes a complimentary basket of chips on every table. He was able to come up with the capital for the purchase of the restaurant from the profits he made selling the chips. In 1860, George established his own restaurant which was known as “Crum’s House” in Malta, New York. When the chips were presented to the customer he took a bite, he ate a few of the chips before informing them that the chips were delectable, after that historical moment the chip was birthed to the world to be known as the “Saratoga Chip” or “Potato Crunches”. George, then became bitter and felt insulted of his cooking, so he retaliated by cutting the potatoes paper-thin and threw them in a pot of oil and allowed them to cook so hard that they became hard and crispy then towards his bitterness he even added additional salt thinking that the chips would be so terrible that would be inedible for consumption. George made a batch and presented it to the customer who was not pleased stating that they were cut too thickly, so they were sent back to the kitchen to be remade, George attempted to make them thinner but when the customer received the second batch he still complained that he didn’t like them, so he advised George to try again to resolve the issue. The restaurant designated the cooking responsibilities to two staff members, which was George and his sister Catherine who was also known as “Aunt Kate”.ĭuring one of the dinner meals, a customer came into the restaurant and ordered a menu item of Moon’s Fried Potatoes which was a house specialty at the time. It was often catered by various tourists and wealthy residents of the area. Moon Lake House was owned by Cary Moon and recognized as one of the upscale restaurants in the area. He took a position as a cook at Cary Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga. Most residents in his community mainly worked at the resorts, while working at the resort that is how he became familiar and was introduced into the world of culinary. George was very familiar with the area during his childhood so in 1853 he became a trapper(person who traps wild animals) and hunted for wild animals mainly for their fur, he also became an Adirondack hunting guide. George also had a two sisters, Catherine and Mary Crum. George was born in Malta, New York which is located south of Saratoga Springs in New York also recognized as a resort community. His father worked as a jockey, he was known as “Crum” so when George was older he liked the name so much he adopted the name. We believe that his father, Abraham Crum was a free (non-slave) black man and his mother, Diana Tull to be a mixed woman of mulatto (anyone with African ancestry) and black/Native American Indian woman. Sometime In 1828 George was born and was given the name George Speck as his birth name, he was born to African American/Native American Indian parents.
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