The history of crisps

George Crum was a chef in New York a long time

ago! The people in his restaurant did not like French
fries. They wanted them thinner! So, he made some
very thin French fries. People ate them with their
hands. They didn’t need forks! Everyone liked them,
so George made them all the time! Now people all
over the world eat these thin French fries. We call
them “crisps”!
The history of hot dog

Back in 1900 a man was trying to sell sausages in the streets

of New York.
He boiled them and then kept them hot in a tank of hot water.

Nobody was very interested until he started to shout,

‘Get your hot dachshund sausages here!’
A dachshund is a long, thin, brown dog which looks something
like a sausage.
As a result he sold many more of his sausages.
A newspaper reporter took a photograph of the sausage seller

holding up one of his sausages for a story in his paper.

But he wasn’t sure how to spell ‘dachshund’, so he called it a
‘hot dog’ instead.
And that’s how the name started.
Popcorn was discovered over 5,000 years ago in Mexico. It was an Indian food. Corn was
thrown on hot stones in a fire. The fire made the corn pop. It was a game to catch the popcorn
and eat it.
The Indians of North America also ate popcorn. When the first English settlers arrived in
America, the Indians gave them popcorn. The settlers loved the food, and they often ate it with
sugar for breakfast.