CHiPs

The chips (also known under the name of croustilles in Quebec and Canada) are fine sections of Légume or Fruit fried in oil. In general, they manufactured in an industrial way and are sold by plastic sachet; it is of potato seasoned salt or about another condiment.

The chips are a food of nibbling been useful out of aperitif. They are massively consumed in the Anglo-Saxon countries (the United States, England…), and are common in the majority of the Western countries and good of other countries of the world.

Attention, the British term and Australien chips indicates in fact the Frites. The chips are named potato chips in North America and potato crisps (or crisps ) in the United Kingdom and in Australia.

Other products which the potato can be used like apple, the banana, tapioca, the durian, etc…

Origin

The invention of the chips is allotted to George Crum, a Chief cook with the Moon Lake Lodge with Saratoga Springs, New York, on August 24th, 1853. The legend wants that Crum had fun to cut out in very fine discs the potatoes which a customer (who one thinks of being Cornelius Vanderbilt) returned continuously cooks some under pretext which they were too large. Impossible to seize with a fork, the potatoes of Crum met a true success and it maintained them on its chart. They became a speciality named according to the name of the village, Saratoga Chips .

This “dish” became rather popular in the Années 1920, with the birth of a national request which corresponds to the invention of the machine with chips, development by Hermann Lay, an itinerant salesman of the south of the the United States.

The chips are initially sold out of tubes but this packing poses an important problem: the chips of the bottom are salted too much and too fatty. A sealed sachet is then used. Laura Scudder invented the hermetic chips sachet by uniting two sheets of paper quite simply paraffined, which allowed in addition to preserving the chips fresh to the opening before the date indicated.

The merchants of chips invented receipts in order to touch a maximum of customers. The owner of the Tayto company was the first to propose chips with cheese, onions or vinaigrées.

Nutritional value

On the plan Nutrition nel, the chips do not have a great value. They are very heating (more than 3500 kcal/100 G), rich in fat contents (approximately 360 G of lipides/100 G) and rich in Sodium (600 mg/100 G). Their consumption is not recommended by the nutritionnists and must be excluded in the event of excess from weight. It tends to unbalance the insulin rate in blood.

Anecdote

" It is chips " is an expression purely meaning Orléanaise: " it is damage " or " it is balo ". Or " Short-nap cloth of Chips " who means head of chips is an expression used by French-speaking Arabic of the Maghreb while wanting to make fun of the face of a person.

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