crisps probably don’t come from the US on the crisps wikipedia page in the history section it says
The earliest known recipe for something similar to today’s potato chips is in the English cook William Kitchiner’s book The Cook’s Oracle published in 1817, which was a bestseller in the United Kingdom and the United States. The 1822 edition’s recipe for “Potatoes fried in Slices or Shavings” reads “peel large potatoes… cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon; dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping”.
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Early recipes for potato chips in the US are found in Mary Randolph’s Virginia House-Wife (1824) and in N.K.M. Lee’s Cook’s Own Book (1832), both of which explicitly cite Kitchiner.
A legend associates the creation of potato chips with Saratoga Springs, New York, decades later than the first recorded recipe.
I skipped a bit with another early recorded version that was also from a british book but that’s it
I checked the book and it doesn’t claim to have invented it it just presents it with all the other recipes but that could just be the style of cookbooks at the time I dunno I’m not a historian but eh proof enough that there’s no evidence of them being american atleast and some evidence they’re maybe british
I don’t think it was sliced bread that did that I think it was cars here in the uk I can get pretty good pre sliced bread I’ve had better bread that wasn’t pre sliced from those same shops so definitely pre sliced requires a bit lower quality bread to survive at all but not terrible I’d say I’ve had good pre sliced bread even but there’s also really mediocre not very great pre sliced bread that lasts longer the good pre sliced bread lasts about half a week before going off where the mediocre bland kinda chewy stuff lasts about a week but both are available and I think the difference here is that everyone in america insists on weekly shopping because the nearest shop for you guys is an hour’s drive away due to car industry lobbying while we’re still car centric here and I wish we were better it’s atleast to the point that the nearest shops more like a 5 minute drive or half hour walk for most people double that if your areas bad and for me currently it’s a 2 minute walk down the road I can’t even finish 1 song before I get there if I start it when I leave the door so thank the car and also corn subsidies for terrible american bread not the bread slicer