March 14, 2022 - National Potato Chip Day | National Pi Day

Welcome to March 14th, 2022 on the National Day Calendar. Today we celebrate endless possibilities in snacks and numbers. The origins of the potato chip are hotly contested. Some say it was George Crum, a chef that tried to appease a customer who kept sending back his “thick and soggy” potatoes. This 1853 tale claims that the customer was none other than Cornelius Vanderbilt. The story was later debunked, but one thing is more sure, Crum’s “Saratoga Chips” spread like wildfire. Today potato chips are one of the world’s most popular snacks. Around 11.2 million pounds of them are eaten on the Sunday of The Big Game alone. No matter how you flavor them, from barbecue to Cajun squirrel (yes that’s an actual flavor) anyone who cashes in on making them is no doubt “in the chips.” On National Potato Chip Day, celebrate by munching on your own favorite flavor! The number Pi is calculated by dividing the circumference of a circle by its diameter. Sounds easy, right? Not really. The approximate value of Pi is 3.14, but if you were to keep calculating the decimals, you’d be working a long time. Like forever. In 2021, a supercomputer attempted to calculate Pi and made it to 62.8 trillion digits before running out of memory. Seems like the phrase “easy as pie” is a reference to the baked version, not the numerical one. If you’re a real Poindexter, you could spend National Pi Day doing math, or you can celebrate along with us over a piece of, well…pie. A la mode optional. I’m Anna Devere and I’m Marlo Anderson. Thanks for joining us as we Celebrate Every Day. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices