In the 20th century, potato chips spread beyond chef-cooked restaurant fare and began to be mass-produced for home consumption. The Dayton, Ohio-based Mikesell's Potato Chip Company, founded in 1910, identifies as the "oldest potato chip company in the United States".
The brand of chips credited as the first potato chip ever invented, Moon Brand Original Saratoga Chips, is back on store shelves. Back in 1853, George Crum took a thinly-sliced Yukon Gold potato, fried it in cottonseed oil, added some sea salt and invented what I'd say is now America's favorite snack.
The oldest potato chip brand is KP Snacks.
Founded in Slough in the UK in 1853, they are now 168 years old and still going strong. They are a German-owned company but produce snacks in Britain that are made from nuts, potatoes, and corn, including chips or “crisps.”
In 1931, Smith's emerged from humble beginnings in the inner-Sydney suburb of Surry Hills. Frank Smith and George Ensor originally began making chips in 20 gas-fired cooking pots, before packing them by hand and seasoning with a “twist of salt”.
Joseph “Spud” Murphy owned the Tayto potato chip company in Dublin, Ireland and in 1954 he asked one of his employees to experiment with inventing a way to flavor potato chips.
Archibald Clark West (September 8, 1914 – September 20, 2011) was a marketing executive credited with the development of Doritos, a brand of seasoned tortilla chips. The successful snack food was marketed as an alternative to the more traditional potato chips.
1926. Laura Scudder of California began using sealed wax paper bags to package potato chips. Her workers would iron 3 edges of the wax paper together to form a pouch shape, manually package the chips into the bags, and use heat from an iron to seal the top edge shut.
ICONIC AUSTRALIAN MADE SNACKS
WE MAKE AUSTRALIA'S FAVOURITE SNACKS INCLUDING CC'S, CHEEZELS, CHICKADEES, FRENCH FRIES, JUMPY'S, KETTLE, NATURAL CHIP COMPANY, SAMBOY AND THINS CHIPS.
TSMC is the largest semiconductor chip manufacturer. This company produces about 90% of high-performance chips across the globe. Also, it controls over 50% of the global semiconductor foundry market in terms of revenue.
For instance, the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE:TSM) - the world's largest contract chip manufacturer - has the bulk of its chip production in Taiwan.
Popcorn is perhaps the oldest of all. Archaeological sites in Peru and Mexico recently yielded 7,000 year old maize husks said to be evidence of popcorn preparation and consumption by ancient indigenous peoples.
Doritos is the most popular chip brand in America. They're produced by Frito-Lay.
Frédéric Krieger, a Bavarian musician, learned to cook fries at a roaster on rue Montmartre in Paris in 1842, and took the recipe to Belgium in 1844, where he would create his business Fritz and sell "la pomme de terre frite à l'instar de Paris", 'Paris-style fried potatoes'.
Tayto, a small Irish company, pioneered the technology to add seasoning to chips. The world's first seasoned potato chips were Cheese and Onion and Salt n' Vinegar. The first two flavors in America, however, were Sour Cream and Onion and Barbecue.
The Silanna Group was founded in 2006 and is cited as Australia's only semiconductor design and manufacturing company.
A controversial survey has declared that KFC chips are the best in Australia. Insights agency Nature has made the chip claim after conducting a rigorous survey and discovered that 76 per cent of Aussies have declared that KFC is the best, followed by Red Rooster at 67 per cent and Grill'd at 65 per cent.
Production starts in Daylesford, Victoria
With the fertile potato growing conditions in Victoria and frozen potato industry in infancy, it was obvious to McCain Australia to purchase potato farms and build a production facility. A small potato processing plant was built in Daylesford to manufacture frozen fries.
#1 SMITH'S — ORIGINAL
In a show of true loyalty to the original potato crisp itself, Australians have decided Smith's Original chips are the nation's favourite snack of all time.
First of all, guess where that golden yellow colour often comes from? In the case of something like fries, it can be a corn-based dextrose sugar coating. Fries are literally starchy white carbs, covered in sugar, deep fried in saturated fat.
Frito-Lay - Fritos Brand Corn Chips 15-cent bag - 1970's
A smaller 15-cent sized bag of Fritos Corn Chips.
Did you notice the inside of the chip bag is shiny silver? The bag is made of thin aluminum foil sandwiched between plastic. The aluminum helps to keep the bag airtight. Microwaves are a type of electromagnetic wave; when they hit the aluminum, they make electric currents flow back and forth in the aluminum foil.
Chip comes from an Old English word, cipp ("a small piece of wood"). Crisp comes from a Latin word that means "curly." Both words emerged around the same time, on the cusp of the 15th century. In the US, corn chips are made from cornmeal and are thicker and squarer than potato chips, often with a curly "scooping" end.