In 1932, C.E Doolin and Herman W. Lay respectively got into the snack food business, with the former making Fritos name in corn chips, and the latter, a beloved (sur)name in potato chips.
The two rival companies merged in 1961 to form Frito-Lay, and four years later it became a part of the newly formed PepsiCo. For almost a century, Frito-Lay has built up one of the world's largest rosters of snacks, with the assistance of 29 different brands. Lay's alone currently has 200 flavors being munched on globally.
Yet . While in today's society, many can openly pine online about their forgotten favorites, these chips still remain fleeting food memories with no return in sight. Compiling a list of all these worthy chips that deserve a comeback would be a Herculean feat, but The Takeout has miraculously narrowed it down to the ones that we need in our hands again, right here, right now.
Lay's Wavy Milk Chocolate Covered Potato Chips Salty and sweet have proven to be a winning combination of tastes, and for Frito-Lay, it's one mash-up it's not often dipped into, beyond its Rold Gold Pretzels. In 2013, the company waded into new territory when it introduced Wavy Milk Chocolate Potato Chips on trial basis for the holidays. Ram Krishnan, vice president of marketing at Frito-Lay told that it "opens a world of possibilities that we haven't explored before.
" She added that if consumers ate up this new venture, "it gives us latitude to offer other flavor combinations that we've never done." ..
