Iconic Foods That Were Invented By Mistake

Potato Chips : Chef George Crum sliced potatoes paper-thin to spite a customer, resulting in irresistibly crispy, golden chips loved worldwide

Chocolate Chip Cookies : Ruth Wakefield substituted chopped chocolate bars in cookie dough; they didn’t melt, creating the classic chocolate chip cookie

Popsicles : Eleven-year-old Frank Epperson accidentally left soda water outside with a stick; it froze overnight, inventing the popsicle

Cheese : An ancient trader stored milk in an animal stomach, and the curdling of enzymes turned the milk into cheese, born from necessity and chance

Nachos : Ignacio ‘Nacho’ Anaya improvised tortilla chips with cheese and jalapeños on the fly, thus creating nachos

Tarte : Tatin A French chef overcooked apples, then inverted them with pastry, and Tarte Tatin emerged from her quick kitchen fix