Everyone loves potato chips. It doesn’t matter if you are going to have to pay full price, or if you get them discounted through the use of potato chips coupons, you are walking out of that shopping center with at least three bags! Americans love potato chips, and we are going to tell you three big secrets about them you probably never knew.

1.) Potato chips date all the way back to the 1800s, 1853 to be exact. It all started with an unhappy customer who didn’t like his fried potatoes. He kept sending them back to the grill requesting them to be thinner. The chef sliced them up so thin they couldn’t even be eaten with a fork. Amazingly enough, the potato chip was born!

2.) As much as everyone loves potato chips, it wasn’t until the early 20th century that they caught on as a nationwide trend. Restaurants and stores finally caught on and started selling chips in bags and with their meals.

3.) It wasn’t enough just to make plain potato chips, people started to get creative and create flavored potato chips in the 1950s. A small independent manufacturer had the idea, then sold the concept to larger corporations.

Today all of the major brands like Lays, Utz, Wise and Ruffles have created their own line of potato chips, from ruffles to crispy to different flavors of barbeque sauce. It’s safe to say the world has greatly changed the way we original thought of eating potatoes. Now go tell your friends all of your new knowledge and surprise them while eating a bag of chips!