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What would kids eat for lunch without peanut butter and potato chips? In this part of the website you will be able to learn about how different foods were invented.
George Washington Carver invented peanut butter in 1915. You probably use peanut butter for sandwiches or peanuts for a snack, but farmers back then planted them to make their fields grow other crops better and they still do today. There were too many peanuts where Carver was, so he took them and experimented. He came up with peanut butter and many other things!
A vendor at the World’s Fair named Ernist Hamwi invented the ice cream cone in 1904. The vendor next to him was selling ice cream in Styrofoam cups, but sooner or later he had to run out since it was a very hot day and everyone wanted ice cream. When he did, Hamwi got an idea. He took the waffles that he was selling and folded them into cones to put ice cream in. Everyone was delighted with his new treat.
A chef named George Crum created potato chips in 1853. One day a customer kept sending back his plate of fried potatoes, asking that they be sliced thinner and fried longer. Crum was very mad, so he decided to get even with the customer. He sliced them very thin, fried them until they were curly and crisp, and salted them. The customer liked them so much, he ordered more.
Chocolate chip cookies were actually a mistake! Can you believe it? Well, one day in 1903, Ruth Wakefield, while baking a batch of cookies, noticed she was out of bakers’ chocolate! As a substitute she broke some semi-sweetened chocolate into small pieces and put them in the dough. She thought that the chocolate would melt in the dough and the dough would absorb it. When she opened up the oven, she realized she had invented the tasty treat called chocolate chip cookies!
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