# What is your favorite potato chip? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802 "2006-08-08T02:53:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/1 "2006-08-08T02:53:02Z")
Prompted by a thread on “kettle-chips” in GQ. What is your favorite? Brand, style, flavor? For me, it’s [Tim’s Cascade Brand](http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=312), and the Habanero or Alder Smoke BBQ for flavor. How about you? ---
**Author:** ![fisha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/da6949/32.png) [@fisha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisha)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/2 "2006-08-08T03:02:29Z")
Target has an in house brand “Archer Farms,” and they make fry these big thick chips in the deli. Little brown packages, only found in their deli department, and boy, do I get a jonesin’ for them. ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/3 "2006-08-08T03:06:04Z")
Zapp’s Cajun Crawtator And, when they are available (very rarely), Zapp’s Steak Limited Edition. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Enter\_the\_Flagon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enter_the_Flagon)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/4 "2006-08-08T03:20:01Z")
Utz. Good name, huh? They’re out of Hanover, Pennsylvania. Everything they bake, fry or spit on is done just perfectly. Gotta go. There’s a snack in the kitchen with my name on it. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/5 "2006-08-08T03:23:51Z")
It’s hard to decide. I love the Utz Homemade Style or whatever they’re called, in the brown bags. They’d probably be my favorite plain eating chip. But I like Wavy Lay’s best for dip. ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/6 "2006-08-08T03:28:52Z")
I’ll have to second the Tim’s Cascade. Those things are **good**. IIRC, there was a time when they didn’t use anything but pure peanut oil to fry them, but I think they’ve started adding other oils now. Damn shame, but they’re still the best potato chips I’ve ever tasted. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/7 "2006-08-08T03:29:28Z")
We have a brand around here called Better Maid potato chips. Plain Better Maids are the best chip in the world, IMHO. ---
**Author:** ![Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8c91f0/32.png) [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bam_Boo_Gut)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/8 "2006-08-08T03:31:59Z")
I can’t stop buying Walkers Roast Chicken. They taste JUST LIKE roast chicken. I don’t know why this particular flavour fascinates me so much, but I open them in the supermarket and make other people try them just so’s they’ll agree. They taste just like roast chicken! ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/9 "2006-08-08T03:53:57Z")
> [@Telperien](#): > > It’s hard to decide. I love the Utz Homemade Style or whatever they’re called, in the brown bags. They’d probably be my favorite plain eating chip. Yeah, those are great. The first time I had some I remarked that they tasted more like fried chicken than potato chips – mmm, mmm, grease! Most everything Utz does is great, but my favorite chip of all is Lay’s Salt & Vinegar in the snack-size bags. It’s more concentrated and ergo better than both the Utz brand salt and vinegar and the Lay’s in the big bag. –Cliffy ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/10 "2006-08-08T04:09:40Z")
> [@dahfisheroo](#): > > Target has an in house brand “Archer Farms,” and they make fry these big thick chips in the deli. Little brown packages, only found in their deli department, and boy, do I get a jonesin’ for them. Archer Farms chips are great, although I’ve never seen them in the Super Target deli, only prepackaged bags with the rest of the chips. But they come in better flavors than your typical Frito-Lay offerings, are usually cheaper, and better overall quality – nice crunchy kettle-type chips rather than brittle Lays and greasy Ruffles. I also love Zapp’s various chips and used to bring home several bags whenever I went to New Orleans (along with 2-liter bottles of Big Shot root beer, the best I’ve ever had), but you can’t find them around here except one remote N’awlins-style restaurant I don’t make it to nearly often enough. ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/11 "2006-08-08T04:21:15Z")
Gotta be Baked Lays! ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/12 "2006-08-08T04:21:17Z")
> [@Cliffy](#): > > Yeah, those are great. The first time I had some I remarked that they tasted more like fried chicken than potato chips – mmm, mmm, grease! > > Most everything Utz does is great, but my favorite chip of all is Lay’s Salt & Vinegar in the snack-size bags. It’s more concentrated and ergo better than both the Utz brand salt and vinegar and the Lay’s in the big bag. > > –Cliffy I also favor Cape Cod Sea Salt and Vinegar but they’re so strong I try not to eat them that often. ---
**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/13 "2006-08-08T05:32:31Z")
Miss Vickie’s plain chips, or for a change the sea salt and malt vinegar. Mmmm. Otherwise, I got for the new Lay’s Dill Pickle or Creamy Dill from Old Dutch which has a more subtle taste to it. ---
**Author:** ![BoxofNothing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@BoxofNothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoxofNothing)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/14 "2006-08-08T05:37:10Z")
I don’t think they’ve made it yet. I like the kind with bubbles which have oil in them. The closest to that I’ve found is Grandma Shearers Select. But I prefer the taste of the salt and pepper. If they could make a reallly good chip, it wouldn’t HAVE to be flavored. ---
**Author:** ![if6was9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e47c2d/32.png) [@if6was9](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/if6was9)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/15 "2006-08-08T05:45:03Z")
Any of the “kettle-cooked”/old fashioned kind, anything cooked in lard. 😉 There’s a brand around here, Gibble’s. When I finally move to California I’m going to have them shipped. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/16 "2006-08-08T07:03:39Z")
Utz crab flavored chips. But I’m on the wrong coast for that. Terra chips, especially the taro ones. ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/17 "2006-08-08T08:21:07Z")
Utz, hands down. It’s only on the east coast, though. Man, do I miss that stuff. (I wonder if I can buy some online?) ---
**Author:** ![Sharky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Sharky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sharky)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 8:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/18 "2006-08-08T08:28:29Z")
> [@fetus](#): > > Utz, hands down. It’s only on the east coast, though. Man, do I miss that stuff. (I wonder if I can buy some online?) Yup. [Right here](http://www.utzsnacks.com/). They seem to be very popular - I think I’ll order some too, to see what all the fuss is about. ---
**Author:** ![Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/19 "2006-08-08T08:59:40Z")
[These](http://www.utzsnacks.com/bgUTZProd_GranPotato.shtml) are the best chips on the planet. ---
**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2006, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802/20 "2006-08-08T10:47:01Z")
The things I miss most since moving from Baltimore to Ohio six years ago: steamed crabs and Utz potato chips. I prefer the straight-forwardly named Regular Potato Chips, in the red and white bag. A couple of years ago, I bought one of the 3 gallon tins at Cross Street Market. I get it refilled whenever I visit Baltimore. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-your-favorite-potato-chip/367802.md?page=2)