potato chips were soon packaged and sold throughout the new england area.
at that time, potatoes were peeled and sliced by hand, which was a tedious task.
potato chips became a top - selling snack food when the mechanical potato peeler was invented in the 1920s.
for several decades after their creation, potato chips were largely a Northem dinner dish.
If there had been no Herman lay in the 1920s, potato chips would not have popular throughout america.
lay was a traveling salesman in the south who drove a truck and sold potato chips to southern grocer.
he also built a business and a name that would become synonymous with the thin, salty snack.
in 1961, Herman lay wanted to increase his line of goods; therefore, he merged his company with frito the Dallas - based producer of snack foods such as Frito corn chips.