Here is a tip - one can rejuvenate many crispy snacks (and cereals such as Cap’n Crunch) that have become stale by leaving the bag open quite easily. Just spread the goodies out on a cooky sheet and pop them into a 250 F oven for about ten minutes. Crispness and crunchiness restored!
theres a budget chip company…laura scudders that used to make a bbq corn chip that was better than the ones frito lay makes …
I don’t think scudders is made these days because other than the ones I just mentioned there dollar store or below quality
Around these parts, Mikesell’s potato chips are king.
Their regular potato chips used to be made with 100% peanut oil. They were the best, but they switched to other oils due to high cost and allergy concerns. There was an outcry from the Mikesell devotees, so they recently came out with a “special” potato chip made with 100% peanut oil.
Speaking of Pringles, does anyone remember another brand of similar manufactured ships that came in a box? I think in our market (Wisconsin, mid 70s, maybe) they were out before Pringles.
The box had a cartoon representation of the manufacturing process. Potatoes were mashed, then rolled out on a sheet, then identical chips were cut out and baked or fried or something. My memory says they were better than Pringles, but it has been a long time. I can’t even remember the name. Did anyone else have them?
Those were wonderful. I miss them too.
Regarding the OP, corn chips and bean dip from the pull-tab can were practically a food group when I was a kid. Add a Popsicle and that was lunch many a day during summer vacation. Do they even make the bean dip in a can anymore? I haven’t looked for it lately.
You can get the bean dip in a can at the grocery stores around here, but you gonna pay through the nose for it.
Well, the entire food market is divided into BP and AP - Before Pringles and After Pringles. A completely processed potato product. A snack made from potatoes that are shredded, dried, ground into a coarse powder, and pressed back into a potato chip shape by a soap manufacturer (Procter & Gamble).
Nothing like it came before Pringles. They came out in 1967, by the way.
Dennis
Forget dip. Ya’ll are missing out if you haven’t ever eaten Grippo’s BBQ chips…best in the world. Yes, like Graeter’s ice cream, SOME good things do come out of Cincinnati.
I think all the salt migrated over to the potato chips.
Seriously, some of those flavors are way too damn salty. Especially steak or prime rib flavors.
Thin chips that taste bad: don’t buy.
Thin chips that taste good: use a spoon.
Pringles: never buy. If you think you need Pringles, make your own. 1 cup of flour,
Hmmm. Actually, that’s the recipe. If you want Pringles, just eat a cup of flour. 
OK, I take it back. Half a cup of flour, half a cup of maltodextrin.
I’m not sure what your point is. I asked about other Pringle-like potato chips. Whether or not they came out before Pringles, they did exist as I described them, and I’d hoped someone remembered them and told me the brand.
I haven’t checked in a long time: are Bugles still around? And wasn’t there a “sister corn snack” that whistled when you blew in the end? And did anyone’s mouth ever heal up properly after eating these?
As recently as a few years ago, you could get bean dip in a can at Giant Eagle, but then they just disappeared. If I’d known that they were going to stop carrying it, I would have stocked up.
And you can still find Bugles sometimes, but either they changed the recipe, or my tastes have changed, because nowadays they don’t taste like anything but salt. Of course, you can still use them as prosthetic fangs and claws, and there’s a cheddar flavor that’s OK.
There is at least some real cheese/dairy product in the Dorito’s powder. My wife works for a large dairy cooperative, and they supply cheese for Dorito’s.