Talk:George Crum
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[edit] hard to believe
Quite frankly I don't believe any of this. nominating for deletion.--Oni Ookami AlfadorTalk|@ 22:58, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
Just because YOU don't believe it hardly means that it isn't true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.199.250.34 (talk) 13:51, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
The deletion nomination calls the article "totally irrelevant." Um ... irrelevant to what? Google returns close to 25,000 entries on George Crum, most of them seemingly crediting him as the chef who invented a dish that now accounts for more than a third of annual savory snack sales in the US. That's a pretty big deal -- any number of prominent human beings who've had far smaller effects on popular culture and commerce are bioed on Wikipedia without complaints of "irrelevance" (Stephen King probably doesn't move as many books in a year as the average city's stores move bags of Crum's invention do in a day). I didn't create the original article and I agree that it needs to be improved, expanded, sourced, etc. and especially vetted for plagiarism. But the guy deserves at least a stub, certainly not a deletion. Thomaslknapp 01:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Black History Mythology
The noteriaty of this person is based on racial mythology that has been debunked.
"....Likewise, George Crum, chef of the Moon's Lake Lodge in Saratoga, New York, was supposed to have been the first person to fry thin slices of potatoes and serve them to customers, producing "Saratoga Potatoes." In fact, home recipes that called for fried "shavings" of raw potatoes had appeared in American cookery books for decades before George Crum worked at the Moon's Lake Lodge." source: http://foodhistorynews.com/debunk.html
Snopes got it wrong once again. The article should be deleted. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.30.37.140 (talk) 17:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
