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?

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

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