[ProtectOurFreedom]

I've noticed that about chips. The unflavored, old-fashioned "regular" chips are way down on the bottom shelf. I'm not a big fan of flavored chips.

I'm so old I remember that all we had was fried chips and salt. Mom would always buy "Wise" chips in the huge tin can - it must have been 14 inches in diameter and that high (I was little in the mid 50s, so it probably wasn't that big. I think the cans were printed and didn't have the paper wrap like this pic shows. I also vaguely recall the Wise delivery man delivered those cans to your house like the milk man, but I could be wrong on that.

I was 10 when Frito Lay introduced "Fritos." I thought corn chips were awful. Terrible idea.

Lays introduced BBQ flavored chips in 1967 when I was 16. I thought flavored potato chips were awful. Another terrible idea.

Lesson learned -- don't put in charge of marketing!

[blackdog]

The “Charles Chips” man delivered our weekly can of chips, pretzels, and milk out of his truck, left on the front porch. The glass bottled milk went into an insulated cooler box on the porch. Each week you just left the cash inside the milk box. Nobody ever messed with that. (Back in the 60’s & 70’s)

[blackdog]

I remember “Pringles” by Proctor & Gamble, being launched in the early 70’s. Some day I will share the history of that product packaging insanity. Think about it. Wet slurry, shaped, baked, dried, flavored, and then all oriented in the same stack pattern, dropped into a can off of on a paper can winding arbor, vacuum chambered, sealed from the bottom, and then stood upright, and pushed into a case packer, without breaking those chips!!! Later in life I was mentored by the wrench turning guys that figured the whole process out. It was like being part of a NASA moon launch project. And if you know P&G, it was top secret non disclosure kind of a project. All notebooks, records, sketches, notes, had to be turned in at the end of the day, then would be re-issued after you came in the next day.