In 1853, a chef named George Crum, at the Moon's Lake House in New York, was annoyed by a customer who complained repeatedly about the thickness of his french fries.
At the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, an ice cream vendor had run out of dishes. Ernest A. Hamwi, a neighboring vendor, was selling waffle-like pastries (called zalabis) and decided to help him out.
In 1838, Lord Sandys of Worcester, England, was craving his favorite Indian sauce after returning home from Bengal, India.
In 1943, Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya was a waiter at a restaurant in Mexico when a group of 10 hungry women came in. Unable to find the chef, Anaya had to improvise.
In 1905, 11-year-old Frank Epperson was playing with a mixture of water and powdered soda mix on his porch, and left the liquid outside overnight.
One origin story maintains that, long ago in China, boiled and ground soybeans were accidentally mixed with impure sea salt , causing the soybeans to gel.
In the 17th century, Dutch vintners would boil their wine in order to reduce its volume for transport, then cut it with water when they were ready to drink.
No one is sure, but it’s said that thousands of years ago, when Mesopotamia starting making bread, some of the dough must have gotten rained on and forgotten about for enough time...
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