Topic: George Vanderbilt

The true history of the potato chip dates back to William Kitchener's 1817 cookbook in the UK, predating American claims. A popular legend attributes the invention to George Crum in Saratoga Springs in 1853 as a response to a picky customer. Later marketing campaigns even falsely claimed the customer was Cornelius Vanderbilt.

The tour visited the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, the largest privately owned house in the United States. Curry complains about the forty-dollar admission fee and the irony of the house having forty-three bathrooms that visitors cannot use. He jokingly refers to the estate as the family home of "Anderson Vanderbilt Pooper."