When was lays made

He purportedly sold peanuts and soft drinks at Greenville Spinners baseball games when he was just 10 years old, according to a Furman Magazine article. Lay entered Furman in , but dropped out of Furman after two years, Hansen McCrory said, at the height of the great Depression.

He began working various jobs, eventually settling into one as an independent snack food distributor in , the obituary said. In , Lay bought a snack food manufacturer in Atlanta and named it the H.

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Furman University Bell Tower Wordmark. Around the same time, C. Doolin was buying the recipe for another American classic: Frito corn chips.

Doolin started making them out of his mother's kitchen. Nearly three decades later, the two of them joined forces to create Frito-Lay. It was Fast forward six years and the enterprising businessman bought the company in question.

First called H. The brand has achieved many milestones during its time — for instance, it's the first major snack food organization to promote itself through TV commercials. Herman Lay's success in the food industry is undeniable. As explained in his New York Times obituary, Herman was dedicated to his company and employees, initiating employee-friendly initiatives in the workspace while working on his company's brand voice.

Herman's hard work paid off, and Lay's became a dominant brand in the market.