When disaster strikes, we usually expect the outcome to be pretty nasty.

But if some cases of unexpectedly amazing outcomes or anything to go by,

we may have reason to be a little more optimistic when life deals us a bad hand.

Get ready to have your faith in the universe restored as we explore some terrible accidents that turned out great.

You're listening. You're listening. You're listening. You'd be amazed.

Chips, crisp, vague, non-specified potato snacks. Whatever you call them, there's no denying potato chips are one of the most popular junk foods on the planet. But their origin story is one of passive

aggression, totally backfiring. While working at a New York restaurant in the late 1800s,

the appropriately named chef George Crumb found himself with a difficult customer.

Crum became frustrated when the patron repeatedly sent back his French fries complaining they were soggy.

Crum, salty, that his culinary skills had been called into question, decided to teach the customer a lesson.

Crum sliced the next batch of potato chips super thin, fried them to a crisp,

then doused the thin strips and salt. To his surprise, the complaining customer was happy with

the result of Crum's passive aggressiveness. That moment would go down in folkloric history

as the first serving of potato chips.

Though the actual origins may have occurred a little before Crum's invention in another part of the U.S., Crum's story is the best of the bag.

Though potato chips are no longer sold freshly made, they can be found in stores on almost every street in the world.

This may well be the only story where offending the person who handles your food turned out great for the customer as well as the rest of humanity.

Well, snack-wise anyway.

The whole obesity thing, hmm, not so great.

In the 16th century, a French Benedictine monk named Dom Pierre Perion spent his time off making delicious wine in the Champagne region of France.

For winemakers in this period, the lack of ability to regulate the temperature of fermenting wine,

besides storing it in a cold basement, presented several issues.

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