I still have nightmares of eating those tasteless bits of potato-like cardboard when I lived overseas. Never again.
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.”
Don’t. Get. Me. Started. (bolding mine)
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.
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.
::Forks the sign of the Evil Eye at Chronos’s sesame-seed pretzels::
Thanks to my wife, Corn and Potato chips from long ago are forever ensconced between my car seats and under my couch cushions. :mad:
Hey, they’re not my sesame-seed pretzels!
Send in the ‘Killer clean up crew’
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.
Charm of protection.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.