The potato chip was created by a frustrated chef. George Crum, an Adirondak Indian chief and chef of the Moon Lake House Hotel in Saratoga Springs, New York, was exasperated by a customer who complained repeatedly that his french fried potatoes were...

A potato chip or crisp is a thin slice of potato, deep fried or baked until crisp. Potato chips serve as an appetizer, side dish, or snack. Commercial varieties are packaged for sale, usually in bags. The simplest chips of this kind are just cooked and...

University Wire 03-24-2005 (Cavalier Daily) (U-WIRE) CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- I was one of those sad children in the cafeteria who had a whole-wheat bread peanut butter sandwich (crusts on!), an apple, carrot sticks and 100% Minute Maid apple juice for lunch. Never was I...

A PepsiCo-General Mills joint venture with the Portuguese government is to build a $75 million potato chip factory in Portugal. The snacks have already been marketed in Portugal under the brand name 'Matutano' and with the new facility production should rise to 22 million...

West Virginia's lone potato chip maker is scrapping its low-fat recipe after consumer reaction to the healthier creations resulted in a 6 percent drop in sales. Parkersburg-based Mister Bee, which hadn't changed its recipe since it opened in 1951, launched...

Snack maker Frito-Lay said Tuesday that a mouse found in a Montana man's bag of potato chips likely entered the bag in the man's house, and was definitely not deep fried at the factory.An independent veterinary pathologist found that the mouse entered the bag alive...