I've become borderline addicted to History Channel's The Food That Built America series. If you're unfamiliar, they're mini-documentaries featuring re-enactments of the events that led to the creation and subsequent success of America's favorite food brands. The origins of Frito-Lay are the subject of one of the episodes. What I didn't know was Kentucky's role in the iconic brand.

Kentucky and Tennessee Figure Prominently Into Frito-Lay's History

It was in 1932 when C.E. Doolin purchased the recipe for corn chips from a small manufacturer in San Antonio, Texas. That same year, Herman Lay began selling his chips in Nashville, Tennessee, before purchasing a flailing snack manufacturer in 1939 and renaming it H.W. Lay & Company. It wasn't until 1961 that the two companies merged to

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