 It quickly spread across Europe and over to America. As far as the history books tell us, Euphemia Allen never wrote another piece of music. But that first and only melody of hers became very famous. In fact, it even inspired variations by such famous classical composers of the day as Franz Liszt, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Borodin, who called his version the mutton chops polka. And there you have the origin of chopsticks.