Sounds Interesting
Some of your popular foods did not come into being on their own. Someone somewhere tried and tested and invented them for us all to relish. Your humble potatoes were turned into potato chips when a customer complained when a chief rolled his waffles. Here we have listed six food items that were actually invented accidentally and have an interesting story behind them.
Ice Cream Cones
Though the waffle cone became a hit the very moment it was created, but its invention had a different story altogether. In 1994, at the St. Louis World’s Fair, an ice cream cups to which a pastries seller came to his rescue and creatively rolled his waffles-like pastries into ice cream cone.
Potato Chips
Potato chips came into existence with the constant efforts of Chef George Crum, who had an unsatisfied customer who complained about the thickness of the French Fries. It was then the chef out of anger sliced a few thinner potatoes and deep-fried them.
Worcestershire Sauce
It all started with two chemists, John Lea and William Perrins exploring to create a spice. They didn’t like the blend they came up with and left it aside. A few years letter, they rediscovered the sauce that was a result of fermentation that took place in the jar and was later named Worcestershire Sauce.
Corn Flakes
In 1898, brothers W.K. Kellogg and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg were working in a sanitarium in Michigan. While exploring healthy food for patients they accidentally let some boiled wheat go stale. When they tried rolling the hardened dough it cracked into flakes, which they further toasted. And that is how Corn Flakes came into existence
Popsicles
It was in 1905 when Frank W. Epperson at the age of 11 put a mixing stick in a cup of soda-water powder and water and left it on his porch overnight. Next morning when he saw it was all frozen, later he patented it as “a handled ice lollipop.”
Chocolate Chip Cookies
In 1930, a woman named Ruth Wakefield who owned a tourist lodge called Toll House Inn, was trying to make cookies for guests, and as she was short of baker’s chocolate, she used broken up pieces of Nestle’s semi-sweet chocolate and thus chocolate chip cookies can into existence, all thanks to her.
