Key :

Write T (true) or F (false):

1 - F

2 - F

3 - T

4 - F

5 - T

6 - T

7 - T

8 - F

9 - F

Answer the questions :

1 - in 1853

2 - because a customer doesn't like his thick French fries

3 - in 1920

4 - Herman Lay

5 - because it's his surname

Write T (true) or F (false)

1. George Crum is a customer in a restaurant. ___

2.The first time Crum makes potato chips is happy. ___

3.The customer says that Crum's French fries are too thick. ___

4. Other people don't want Crum's potato chips. ___

5.The new food on the menu is Saratoga chips. ___

6.At the beginning people peel the potatoes by hands ___

7.The automatic potato peeler appears in 1920. ___

8. Herman Lay sells potato chips in the North. ___

9.Americans buy potato chips only once a month. ___

Answer the questions:

1. When does George Crum make the first potato chips ? ______________________

2. Why does he make them ? ___________________________________________

3. When does the automatic potato peeler appear ? __________________________

4. Who sells the potato chips in the South ? _______________________________

5. Why does Herman Lay call the potato chips `Lay's' ? ________________________________________________________________

Potatoes chips are America's favorite snack. Where do potato chips come from ?

It's 1853. A Native American named George Crum
makes the first potato chips. Crum is a chef in an expensive restaurant in Saratoga Springs, New York. One day, a customer doesn't like the French fries. He says they are too thick. So Crum makes more, this time thinner. The customer still doesn't like them. Crum gets mad. He decides to make the customer angry so he cuts the potatoes very, very thin. The customer loves them.

Other people want Crum's potato chips. Now, there is a new food on the menu - SARATOGA CHIPS. Soon Crum opens his own restaurant and he makes his special chips.

It takes a long time to make potato chips. People peel the potatoes by hand. Then, in 1920, the automatic potato peeler changes everything. Now it's faster and easier to make potato chips. Now potato chips aren't a specialty. They are a popular snack food, but only in the North.

A salesman named Herman Lay
wants to sell potato chips in the South.

He sells potato chips in bags
. His business grows. Today, Americans eat a lot of potato chips. Americans spend $ 10.5 million on potato chips every day !

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