Excessively high and low pHs can be detrimental for the use of water. High pH causes a bitter taste, water pipes and water-using appliances become encrusted with deposits, and it depresses the effectiveness of the disinfection of chlorine, thereby causing the need for additional chlorine when pH is high.
Carver's records included the following sweet potato products: 73 dyes, 17 wood fillers, 14 candies, 5 library pastes, 5 breakfast foods, 4 starches, 4 flours, and 3 molasses. He also had listings for vinegars, dry coffee and instant coffee, candy, after-dinner mints, orange drops, and lemon drops.
1 Herman Lay began selling potato chips in the south, and in 1932, he founded Lay's in Nashville, Tenn., as a distributor for a chip factory in Atlanta, Ga. 2  In 1938, Lay purchased the chip factory and started selling Lay's Brand Potato Chips. 3  In 1921, Bill and Salie Utz founded Utz Quality Foods in Hanover, Pa.s word of the chips got out, other restaurants began to serve them. It wasn't long before potato chips were a staple at restaurants across the country. William Tappendon of Cleveland, Ohio, is credited with taking the potato chip out of the restaurant and into the grocery store.