Fun Facts: The History of the Tortilla Chip

The triangular shaped tortilla chip was made famous by Rebecca Webb Carranza in Los Angeles in the 1940’s. Rebecca worked in a tortilla factory where she had taken the tortilla scraps that the automated tortilla machine had left behind and decided to fry them — thus the tortilla chip was born. You’d be hard-pressed to find a Mexican restaurant that doesn’t serve tortilla chips and salsa as an appetizer. You can thank Rebecca Webb Carranza for this.