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posted by Jason Kottke  ·  gift link

Now vs. then: how potato chips are made

NPR’s Planet Money talked to Ed Herr of Herr Foods about how potato chip manufacturing has changed since 1946, when the company was housed in a barn on his family’s land.

Herr estimates that if they currently made chips the way they did back in the 1940s, they’d cost about $25 a bag.