When you see potato chips in the snack aisle at the grocery store, you can thank George Crum. He is credited with inventing the salty snack food, and his story will be told on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 6 p.m. at the Long Beach Island branch of the Ocean County Library in Surf City as part of the Black History Month celebration.
According to legend, Crum invented the potato chip in 1853 when working as a cook in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., after a diner sent back French fries as too soggy.
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