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Article: Hot potatoes; America's favorite snack food celebrates its 150th anniversary. Potato chips -- credit for their creation might go to the discriminating tastes of Cornelius Vanderbilt -- generate $6 billion a year. Is it really any secret as to why?
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- Sunday News Lancaster, PA
- Article date:
- March 30, 2003
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Ashley Weisner, 7, of Elizabethtown, paused recently in front of a
snack stand at Central Market, tugged on her mom's shirt and pointed
to a bag of sour cream-and-onion-flavored potato chips.
In less than a minute the bag was in her hands.
Ashley said she munches a lot of potato chips.
"I eat them with my dad every night before I go to bed," the East
High Elementary School first-grader said as her mom, Christine, stood
by.
Ashley's snack partner and dad, Lenny, likes barbecue-flavored and
regular chips, she said.
The Weisners are among those who have made potato chips the