# In Memory of Corn chips and Potato chips of days long ago... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 22, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888 "2018-04-22T03:22:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/21 "2018-04-22T22:04:53Z")
> [@The\_Vorlon](#): > > Remember when Pringles would not shatter if you breathed on them? I still have nightmares of eating those tasteless bits of potato-like cardboard when I lived overseas. Never again. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/22 "2018-04-22T22:12:59Z")
> [@Qwakkeddup](#): > > I love pretzels. Small crunchy knots, twigs or the huge soft pretzels. Sadly every place that sells hot pretzels now sell those dammed pretzel shaped bread knots instead. > They don’t taste terrible, but they are not a pretzel in anything but shape. Big-ass, soft, doughy, hot pretzels with a thin layer of Gulden’s Spicy Brown? Now yer talkin’! I thought I would choke on my tongue laughing the first time Mr. Burns mentioned “pretzeled bread.” > [@OldGuy](#): > > Thank you. It’s been a while since I laughed so hard reading SDMB. Not quite up there with **“My bladder knows I’m home.”** but very good. Don’t. Get. Me. Started. (bolding mine) ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/23 "2018-04-22T22:18:58Z")
Remember when you could easily find unadulterated fried chips the way God intended? Corn corn chips. Potato potato chips. Now the few bags on the racks are lost in the heathen crowd. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/24 "2018-04-22T22:19:42Z")
Now, what I miss most about pretzels is the salt. Nowadays they’re all afraid to put enough salt on them. I’ve even seen pretzels that have sesame seeds on them instead of the salt. Sesame seeds might _look_ similar to large salt grains, but _they are not at all the same_. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/25 "2018-04-22T22:22:22Z")
::Forks the sign of the Evil Eye at Chronos’s sesame-seed pretzels:: ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/26 "2018-04-22T23:13:31Z")
Thanks to my wife, Corn and Potato chips from long ago are forever ensconced between my car seats and under my couch cushions. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/27 "2018-04-22T23:17:14Z")
Hey, they’re not _my_ sesame-seed pretzels! ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/28 "2018-04-22T23:19:35Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Thanks to my wife, Corn and Potato chips from long ago are forever ensconced between my car seats and under my couch cushions. :mad: Send in the ‘Killer clean up crew’😉 ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/29 "2018-04-22T23:27:04Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > The old days didn’t have Jays Jalapeno Crunchers, today’s days do, so I will make no effort to upset the chip gods. Is that the same as Krunchers kettle cooked chips? I remember discovering those in the early 90s, and they were such a revelation to me! Love those. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/30 "2018-04-22T23:39:45Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Hey, they’re not _my_ sesame-seed pretzels! Charm of protection. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2018, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/31 "2018-04-22T23:51:08Z")
There was a Wise (I think) brand of round nacho chips called Bravos when I was a young teen that disappeared long ago, but I still remember them wistfully and wish someone would come out with that same formula. The nacho cheese on them was delicious, not as pin-pointy sharp (flavor, not shape) as Doritos are now. ETA: Wise apparently still makes them, but they’re only available at something like 4 stores in NJ. And they’re triangular now. I don’t trust that they taste the same, either. ---
**Author:** ![Kelevra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kelevra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kelevra)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/32 "2018-04-23T14:52:03Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > I also remember some brand of potato chips that came in a big bag that had two skinny, half full bags inside. Anyone else remember that? Here in Ohio you can still get these. Husman’s and Grippo’s both still make this type of bag. They are getting harder to find tho. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/33 "2018-04-23T16:10:23Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Is that the same as Krunchers kettle cooked chips? I remember discovering those in the early 90s, and they were such a revelation to me! Love those. Yeah, those are the ones. I should have looked at the bag before I posted: Krunchers with a K. Like when you’re driving through a small town and see a restaurant called Kountry Kitchen. Why do they do that? ---
**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/34 "2018-04-23T17:09:56Z")
I am old enough to remember when Jay’s chips came in a box with two sleeves of chips inside AND there was a pencil in the box around the beginning of the school year. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/35 "2018-04-23T18:19:29Z")
> [@bobot](#): > > Yeah, those are the ones. I should have looked at the bag before I posted: Krunchers with a K. Like when you’re driving through a small town and see a restaurant called Kountry Kitchen. Why do they do that? It wasn’t so much that as much as I didn’t realize they were a Jay’s product. I’ve always just called them Krunchers, so I thought there might be something else called “Jay’s Crunchers,” but it looks like Jays and Krunchers both Jays products. You’d think I’d know this, as Jays is a local company (well, now a subsidiary of Snyder’s of Hanover). ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/36 "2018-04-23T18:23:02Z")
> [@peedin](#): > > I am old enough to remember when Jay’s chips came in a box with two sleeves of chips inside AND there was a pencil in the box around the beginning of the school year. Oh, that’s right – not the pencil part – but the Jays coming in a box. I can’t remember for the life of me if they had the twin packs then or not. As I said above, I grew up in the 80s, so those boxes must’ve been phased out somewhere mid-80s-ish? Maybe they even made it to the late 80s? And then they had the tins way back when in the 40s or so that you’ll sometimes see at relatives houses or antique type stores. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/37 "2018-04-23T20:01:55Z")
Old Dutch still has chips in boxes. I can’t speak to the durability of the chip because I don’t really care for Old Dutch, except their dill pickle flavor. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/38 "2018-04-23T20:42:44Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Oh, that’s right – not the pencil part – but the Jays coming in a box. I can’t remember for the life of me if they had the twin packs then or not. As I said above, I grew up in the 80s, so those boxes must’ve been phased out somewhere mid-80s-ish? Maybe they even made it to the late 80s? > > And then they had the tins way back when in the 40s or so that you’ll sometimes see at relatives houses or antique type stores. Hold on there, Baba Looey, our household was getting those cans of chips into the late '60s. And into the early '90s, the company I worked for had Charles Chips come around every other week with cans of yummy cookies (and probably chips) for the office staff to nosh on. But I would not be surprised if that’s gone the way of the Passenger Pigeon. ---
**Author:** ![Qwakkeddup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/90ced4/32.png) [@Qwakkeddup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qwakkeddup)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/39 "2018-04-24T02:07:52Z")
A Christmas present years ago, somewhere in the latter 70’s I unwrapped what I presumed was a tin of caramel popcorn, but it turned out to be Bavarian honey mustard pretzels. My sisters and mother turned their nose up at them. My father stayed out of them I think? Snyders of Hanover came close, except they seem to have gone to powdering the bags. Poorly I might add. Their quality went to sh\*t lately. Never have been able to find anything like those delicious crunch giant pretzel pieces. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2018, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888/40 "2018-04-24T03:22:31Z")
And yet they do something to the Utz Cheese Balls. The ones at Walmart, in a Jar as big as your head. I swear, it’s a single serving container. I tell the wife to stop bringing them home, but I think she’s out for the life insurance money. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/in-memory-of-corn-chips-and-potato-chips-of-days-long-ago/812888.md?page=3)