This is the man who invented the potato chip. His name is George Crum. A skilled chef, he worked at Moon’s Lake House in Saratoga Springs, New York which is where Crum invented the chips. The Moon’s Lake House owner Cary Moon tried to later claim credit for the chip invention and began producing and distributing potato chips in boxes. In the 1920s a so-called entrepreneur named Herman Lay caught wind of these thinly cut potatoes, mimicked the recipe and began traveling through the south and introducing potato chips to different communities. At that point, Crum’s legacy was overtaken by the mass production and distribution of potato chips, on a national scale by Herman Lay. By 1930 Louis A “Doc” Farone, a bootlegger and associate of underworld figure Meyer Lansky gained ownership of Moon’s Lake House, turned it into an illegal gambling house and illegal bar during prohibition. Overall, legal and illegal American success was built off the organic discovery by the melanated. It has been said that when Crum opened his own restaurant in the 1860s in Malta, New York, he provided every table with a basket of chips for the free. For the love. Very player-like. He lived to be 90.