Best potato chips are always found between the cushions of my couch after the kids have a sleepover party. Can anyone else identify with this?

The thick and thin of it.
Thick cut Maui Kitch'n Cook'd.
Ultra thin Atebara's from Hilo.
You can also get Maebo's one ton chips there in Hilo. I go to the factory and get the huge 3# bag for $5 or $6 bucks. It's about $4 for a 4oz bag in the grocery store.

I love Ole Salty's chips in Rockford, IL:

Ole Saltys
3131 Summerdale Ave
Rockford, IL 61101
Phone: (815) 963-3355
http://www.olesaltys.com/cgi-bin/webc/home.html

Sandy

Charles Chips it is !! Thanks for helping me restore my depleted memory..

I love Utz chips, especially the Old Bay flavour. In the UK, they have amazing flavours including Roast Chicken & Thyme, Oriental Ribs, Ox Tail, Sea Salt & Balsamic Vinegar, Sundried Tomato and Basil, and some strange mushroom type, that was a bit wierd.

wise chips!! when i lived in colo i had to have my girlfriend ship them to me. and i remember charles chips coming to my house outside phila when i was a kid.

Brings me back to my own Pennsylvania childhood.

Loved Charles. Hated Wise.

i doubt that the Charlie Chips are still delivered to one's home in a tin anymore, but they are available here in Ohio at Marc's. They just dont seem to be as good as the originals.

I also like Wise, Mike-Sells an Utz.

I have a Charles' Chips tin and still buy the chips at Fresh Market and keep them in it for nostalgia's sake. Mind you this is a once a year treat but I still think they are best. Very thin, very crisp and not too salty. They taste like a potato as they should.

In western New York, we had a periodic delivery from the Charlie Chip man. I do not remember if it was our milkman or the green grocer who brought them or perhaps on its own truck. What luxury that would be today. LMF

I know it's not a potato, but I REALLY liked the Maui Taro chips in Hawaii...sent myself a box of them home!

Alas, they are all gone, and I gave away my last box of Pineapple Snow from the Menehune Candy Store this past Sunday (to a good friend!).

Belle

What is Pineapple Snow? Is it something we can snail mail to you?

Funny about taro chips--they are so plentiful here. Yet, last Thanksgiving, my cousin was craving them and we went from store to store all over Honolulu and couldn't find ANY!

Many years ago my grandfather ran an antiques/furniture repair shop in "upstate" NY. We would go hang out at the shop on the weekends and eat all his Charles Chips. (He used to have their pretzels, too.) We weren't worried about getting fat and having high cholesterol way back when.

Reading fairfax's post, I suddenly remembered eating some strange potato chips in Japan. They had nori (seaweed) chips with bits of seaweed sprinkled on, and also ume (sour plum) flavored potato chips. This was some years ago. During my last trip back to Japan, we hunted for the ume flavored potato chips and none to be found. It must have been just a passing fad. However, I did come across some curry flavored Pringles in the can. Tasted just like it sounds--curry spice on Pringle chips. Nothing to get excited over.

Death in a bag, resealable for your convenience.

Skip the chips, people.

Potatoes are $0.23/pound
Potato chips $3.40/pound

If you're not concerned with your health or your wealth, what are you concerned with at your age?

"If you're not concerned with your health or your wealth, what are you concerned with at your age?"

Enjoying life because it's short, keeping a sense of humor, and ignoring people who think they know all about being older before they've gotten there themselves.

I have an AARP card. What about you, Cassie?

Correction. I have an AARP card and a lot of old friends. This is how I "peek into the future" regarding aging. Surely, you just peer into the rear view mirror and wish you knew more in advance. Good luck, dearie.

Hi cassandra

great reply - really great!! I'm still laughing!!

And yes, I love good potato chips (on occasion) like Wise, Lays, Charles Chips and I'd love to stop and get some of those great central PA chips.

Fehgged: AARP sends cards to everyone on their 50th birthday. Big whoop. And congrats on having some friends, but I trust you don't follow them around and carp at them if they indulge in -- or even TALK about indulging in -- any guilty pleasures. I also assume you don't touch or even discuss caffeine, alcohol, tobacco, fried foods, chocolate, candy, mercury-infused fish, fat-infused red meat, a TV remote, or any controlled substances (though such laudable abstinance would explain your sour attitude).

It's one of my least favorite phrases, but it's appropriate here: "Lighten up." Chips are for kids!

Good one, Cassandra!