Detroit's Better Made potato chips is reaching a milestone: It's turning 85 years old.
Sylvia Rector of the Detroit Free Press reports that the Better Made Snack Company kicks off its 85th anniversary celebration Saturday. The company is on Gratiot Avenue in Detroit.
She writes that it all began in 1930 during the Great Depressionwhen two immigrant cousins from Sicily — Peter Cipriano and Cross Moceri — began frying potato chips at home and peddling them around Detroit for a nickel a bag.
The Freep notes that Better Made was one of at least 22 chip-makers that sprang up in the city in the late 1920s through the mid-'30s.
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