Cheesy crums or salt'n'vinegar vanderbilts?

Laura Barton's Guardian article on the British love affair with crisps, not only touched on a subject close to my heart, it also got me thinking how, if they had followed the same trajectory as the Earl of Sandwich's meat between two slices of bread, crisps (or pototo chips) could very easily have ended up known as Crums or Vanderbilts instead.
One of the best resources for finding out how popular recipes and foodstuffs named after people or places came to be so called is JJ Schnebel's 'Who cooked that up?' website. Here you can read about the origins of such items as Peach Melba, Pavlova, Philly Cheese Steak, Waldorf salad, Melba toast, Cobb salad, Caesar's salad, Sacher Torte and Vichysoisse. And if that has whetted your appetite, read about Buffalo wings, Beef Stroganoff and Welsh rarebit over at Wikipedia.