In honor of Women’s History month, three grandsons of Laura Scudder, the woman behind the eponymous food brand famous for its potato chips and peanut butter, addressed a members-only event at ...

Wax paper bags. Thus was born Laura Scudder’s solution to stale and crumbled potato chips, and from there, the largest potato chip manufacturer in the country with four factories and a fleet of ...

In 1926, Laura Scudder, a California businesswoman ... who allegedly discovered a love for potato chips on a visit to Saratoga and thought they would sell well in his speak-easies.

But in 1926, Laura Scudder, whose family owned a chip business in Monterey Park, Calif., had an idea to hand-iron sheets of wax paper into bags, fill the bags with potato chips, and seal the tops ...

potato chips sold better during and after the war than they ever had before. 4. We owe a debt to Laura Scudder, potato chip queen of California. Before potato chips were mass-produced and ...

Borden, which has been on an acquisition spree in chips and snack foods, including a mid-1986 buyout of Chicago-based Jays Foods, Tuesday disclosed it had bought Laura Scudder`s Inc., a potato ...

As time passed, new inventions made potato chips easier for consumers to access. In 1926, trained nurse and lawyer Laura Scudder invented cellophane bags, ensuring potato chips' future as an on ...

Potato chips, that long-time favorite snack ... That is until a California businesswoman named Laura Scudder came up with the idea of putting the chips in wax paper, and sealing the ends closed ...

the potato production grew in leaps. In 1926 an entrepreneur Laura Scudder came up with an idea of packaging the chips in sealed bags made from wax paper which were stapled in the ends.