Second, the `` potato chip industry '' has caught the fancy of investors lately, and until Morton Foods came along there were only two potato chip stocks -- Frito and H. W. Lay -- on the market.

And third, the potato chip industry has taken on the flavor of a `` growth '' industry in the public mind of late.

The potato chip industry these days is growing, not only as a result of population increase and public acceptance of convenience foods, but also because of a combination of circumstances that has led to growth by merger.

The history of the U.S. potato chip industry is that many of today's successful companies got started during the deep depression days.

As with all members of the deep-fried chip family, they are cooked twice, once at a relatively low temperature ( blanching ) to cook the potato, and then at a higher temperature to crisp the surface, making them crunchy on the outside and fluffier on the inside.

Fries cut thickly with the skin left on are called potato wedges, and fries without the potato skin are called " steak fries ", essentially the American equivalent of the British " chip ".

The global potato chip market generated total revenues of US $ 16. 4 billion in 2005.

According to a traditional story, the original potato chip recipe was created in Saratoga Springs, New York on August 24, 1853.

The Dayton, Ohio-based Mike-sell's Potato Chip Company, founded in 1910, calls itself the " oldest potato chip company in the United States ".

New England-based Tri-Sum Potato Chips, originally founded in 1908 as the Leominster Potato Chip Company, in Leominster, Massachusetts claim to be America's first potato chip manufacturer.

The early potato chip bag was wax paper with the ends ironed or stapled together.

The potato chip remained otherwise unseasoned until an innovation by Joe " Spud " Murphy ( 1923 – 2001 ), the owner of an Irish crisp company called Tayto, who developed a technology to add seasoning during manufacture in the 1950s.

The innovation became an overnight sensation in the food industry with the heads of some of the biggest potato chip companies in the United States traveling to the small Tayto company in Ireland to examine the product and to negotiate the rights to use the new technology.

The sale of the Tayto company made the owner and the small family group, who had changed the face of potato chip manufacturing, very wealthy.

The Tayto's innovation changed the entire nature of the potato chip, and led to the end of Smith's twist of salt.

Many of the sweets produced in this region, such as quince, sweet potato, molasses and dulce de cayote jams, have given rise to a very well known and easily made dessert referred to as vigilante, or to so-called queso y dulce ( where a piece of fresh cheese is served with one of the sweets mentioned above ).

In Serbia, dill is known as mirodjija and is used as an addition to soups, potato and cucumber salads and French fries.

The potato is a starchy, tuberous crop from the perennial Solanum tuberosum of the Solanaceae family ( also known as the nightshades ).

In terms of nutrition, the potato is best known for its carbohydrate content ( approximately 26 grams in a medium potato ).

Chuño is a freeze-dried potato product traditionally made by Quechua and Aymara communities of Peru and Bolivia, and is known in various countries of South America, including Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and Chile.

In Australia, some parts of South Africa, the south of New Zealand, India, the general West Indies especially in Barbados, both forms of potato product are simply known as " chips ", as are the larger " home-style " potato crisps.

Additionally, the starch in potato chips is known to cause tooth erosion.

* In Finland, the market leader in potato chips business is Taffel ( known in Denmark and Norway as KiMs and marketed in Sweden under the name OLW ), an Åland company, with salt flavored ordinary chips " Sips ", popular tube-shaped cheese flavored " Juusto Snacks ", sour cream and onion flavored " Broadway ", and barbecue flavored " Grill Chips ".

A similar snack made from potato and sago starch is known as far-far in India.

The family is also informally known as the nightshade or potato family.

Satsuma is well known for its production of sweet potatoes, known in Japan as 薩摩芋 ( satsuma-imo or " Satsuma potato ").

* A type of Russian potato salad, the main difference with the " traditional " Russian potato salad, also known as " Olivie " is that it's prepared with an addition of beets, which give it a distinctive red coloring, and it is dressed with oil, instead of mayonnaise

* Chips, the UK term for large cuts of potato that are deep fried or baked in an oven, known as french fries in Canada and the U. S.

* Potato cod ( Epinephelus tukula ), also known as the potato bass or potato grouper, a large reef fish found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans

95 % of Australia's production is of the orange variety named Beauregard, originally from America, known simply as sweet potato.

In the Philippines, like in Central America, the sweet potato is known as camote ( alternatively spelled as kamote ).

In the United States, a restaurant that specializes in beef steaks is known as a steakhouse, and typical steak dinner consists of a steak, with a starchy side dish, usually baked or mashed potatoes, but occasionally another potato dish, rice, pasta, or beans.

It is sold by national and international fast food chains, in small " greasy spoon " type diners ( commonly known as " cantines " or " casse-croûtes " in Quebec ) and pubs, as well as by roadside chip wagons ( commonly known as " cabanes à patates ", literally meaning " potato shacks ").

The success of crisp fried potato chips also gave birth to fried corn chips, with such brands as Fritos, CC's and Doritos dominating the market.

URL: http :// www. british-history. ac. uk / report. aspx? compid = 22605 Date accessed: 14 November 2007 .</ ref > Coincidentally, Cricklewood also became the home for the first Smith's Crisps potato crisp factory which replaced the omnibus depot at Crown Yard.

The owners claim that, back in the 1920s, the potato crisp was invented there.

Although some designs are based on a Pringles potato crisp can, in reality this tube is too narrow to be practical.

When well cooked, a baked potato has a fluffy interior and a crisp skin.

Microwaving takes from six to twelve minutes depending on oven power and potato size, but does not generally produce a crisp skin.

Wrapping the potato in aluminium foil before cooking in a standard oven will help to retain moisture, while leaving it unwrapped will result in a crisp skin.

Once a potato has been baked, some people discard the skin and eat only the softer and moister interior, while others enjoy the taste and texture of the crisp skin.

A 1912 recipe adds onions and tomato paste, and serves it with crisp potato straws, which are considered the traditional side dish in Russia.

" ( answers: ' long, narrow pieces of potato that have been deep-fried ' in the UK, ' slim slices of potatoes deep fried or baked until crisp ' in the US ).

The Ulster Fry is distinguished by its griddle breads – soda bread and potato farls, fried until crisp and golden.

Golden Wonder now produce a number of different flavours of potato crisp.

In the middle of the leaf there may be an odd number of fried items like small circles of chips either banana, yam or potato, thin crisp papads or frilly wafers Appalams and vadai.

This innovation kept the chips fresh and crisp longer and, along with the invention of cellophane, allowed potato chips to become a mass market product.

They are a thinly sliced variety of potato chip ( crisp ) and come in a variety of flavours including Chicken, Original, Salt & Vinegar and Light & Tangy.

They compete chiefly with Smith's Selections Thinly Cut ; another thinly sliced potato chip ( crisp ), along with various crinkle cut brands.

* Htamin jin (‌ ), a rice, tomato and potato or fish salad kneaded into round balls dressed and garnished with crisp fried onion in oil, tamarind sauce, coriander and spring onions often with garlic, Chinese chives roots ( ju myit ), fried whole dried chili, grilled dried fermented beancakes ( pè bouk

" West-Mex " food is defined by the company as being about fresh, bold flavors due to the inclusion of their crisp potato nuggets branded as " Potatoes Olé " ( see below ), sauces, spices, and salsas.

The site was purchased by Stan Johnson in 1985 with the intention of a potato crisp manufacturing factory.