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While the story is regarded as a myth by food historians, potato chips were popularized in Saratoga Springs, New York.
虽然历史学家认为这个故事是虚构的，但薯片在纽约的萨拉托加温泉很受欢迎。
They were known as Saratoga chips in the mid-19th century and they were considered a delicacy.
它们在19世纪中叶被称为萨拉托加薯片，被认为是一种美味。
Chips were served in fine hotels and luxury cruise liners, and Tiffany even sold sterling silver chip servers to families eating them at home.
高档酒店和豪华邮轮上都在供应薯片，蒂芙尼甚至向吃薯片的人出售家用纯银取薯片用具。
Another form of fried potatoes that emerged in the 19th century are hashbrowns, my personal favoriate.
19世纪出现的另一种炸土豆是土豆煎饼，这是我最喜欢的。
The term, at least, can be traced back to American food writer Maria Parloa.
目前所知最早使用这个词的人是美国美食作家玛丽亚·帕洛亚。
In the late 1800s she mentioned hashed browned potatoes, or potatoes that have literally been hashed up, as in chopped, and browned, or fried.
19世纪末，她曾提到过一种土豆制品，也就是切碎、炒至褐色或油炸的土豆。
Elsewhere in the world, processed potatoes are shaped and fried into potato pancakes.
在世界其他地方，加工过的土豆被捏成并炸成土豆煎饼的形状。
Unlike hashbrowns, potato pancakes are usually held together with some sort of binding agent like eggs, flour, or matzo meal.
与炸薯条不同，土豆煎饼通常与鸡蛋、面粉或松饼粉等粘合剂混合在一起。
Swiss rosti may be the potato pancake most similar to hashbrowns, as it's made from potatoes with generally limited additional ingredients.
瑞士土豆饼可能是与土豆煎饼（hashbrowns）最相似的土豆煎饼，因为它是由土豆制成的，通常不多加什么配料。
One of the most recent entries to the fried potato pantheon is the tater tot.
油炸土豆万神殿的最新成员之一是炸薯球。
French fries are directly responsible for the invention of this crispy convenience food.
炸薯条是这种酥脆方便食品出现的直接原因。
In 1952, brothers F.Nephi and Golden Grigg founded the Ore-Ida frozen food processing company in Ontario, Oregon.
1952年，F·奈菲兄弟和金格里格兄弟在俄勒冈州安大略省创立了Ore-Ida冷冻食品加工公司。
They started out making French fries, and they were looking for a way to use up the potato scraps they were left with at the end of the day.
他们一开始是做炸薯条，并且思考如何利用一天工作结束时剩下的薯片。
They decided to chop up the leftover bits, season them, and shape them into bite-sized pellets.
他们决定把剩下的碎片切碎，调味，然后做成一口大小的小球。
A research committee eventually dubbed the product tater tots after consulting a thesaurus.
一个研究委员会在查阅了同义词库后，最终将该产品命名为炸薯球（tater tots）。
The name is still trademarked by Ore-Ida today, which has led to some creative alternatives from competitors.
该名称至今仍由Ore-Ida注册，导致其竞争对手各显身手创造了很多有创意的名字。
In freezer sections around the world, you can find the item marketed as hash bites, potato pom-poms, spud puppies, oven crunchies, and tasti taters.
在世界各地的冷冻区，你都可以找到这种商品，它可能叫肉丁土豆、土豆毛球、土豆小狗、烤箱脆饼和美味碎屑。
But no matter what they're called or what form they take, the world will always have an appetite for crispy, crunchy potatoes.
但无论它们叫什么，是什么形状，全世界人永远都喜欢脆脆的土豆。
They are the unifying link that connect all of humanity and I truely believe one day, they will bring about world peace.
它们是连接全人类的团结纽带，我坚信，有一天，他们将带来世界和平。
Thank you.
谢谢。
Thank you very much for coming.
非常感谢您的到来。
Thank you.
谢谢。
I'm very smart.
我很聪明。
Because I enjoy watching comment sections cannibalize themselves let me ask you this question as we wrap up today, which do you prefer?
因为我喜欢看评论区自相残杀，所以让我在今天的节目结束前问你这个问题，你更喜欢哪种？
Tater tots?
炸薯球？
Or Fries?
还是薯条？
Only one can win.
只有一个赢家。
And as always, if you have a question about the history of food, drop it in the comments below and we'll try to answer it in an upcoming episode.
和往常一样，如果你有关于食物历史的问题，在评论区评论中，我们会在下一集尝试回答它。
I mean, we'll try.
我是说，我们尽力。
There's a lot of history out there.
历史可太多了。
Thanks for watching.
感谢您的收看。
