Chili Cheese Fries

Chili cheese fries is an American dish with elusive origins. The dish consists of french fries that are topped with chili and grated cheese. There are many origin stories connected with chili cheese fries, although none of them can be 100% confirmed.

Texans claim that a 16-year-old Don A. Jenkins invented the dish when he was eating lunch at the local Dairy Queen in Tomball, Texas. In Michigan, it is believed that the dish was invented by two local waitresses who simply combined the ingredients.

There are similar stories in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Missouri, but all that is known is that chili cheese fries could be bought in frozen form as early as 1975.