Chips Ahoy!

I may or may not have known this all along, but as far as I know, I just found out that the potato chip was invented here in Saratoga Springs. A story from today's Saratogian discusses the topic, in connection with a German documentarian who was in town taping footage for an upcoming program on accidental inventions. (I've often had Saratoga Chips at the Stadium Cafe--usually by accident--and they are the best chips, actually). Wikipedia confirms the story, although the Saratogian story gets its centuries a little confused, and doesn't mention that the cranky customer whose dissatisfaction with thick, soggy fried potatoes was, in some accounts, Cornelius Vanderbilt.