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Old 03-29-2011, 04:18 PM
 
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Why does PA seem to have way more kinds of potato chips?
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Old 03-29-2011, 07:01 PM
 
Location: Lancaster County, PA
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Because God loves us!!
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Old 03-29-2011, 07:05 PM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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I miss Wise chips.
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Old 03-30-2011, 02:47 AM
 
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Pennsylvanians eat more potato chips and pretzels per capita than any where else. They also aren't health conscience so they like good potato chips. Many chips are fried in lard which give them a crunchier more greasy taste.
People will swear by their local chips. There was a discussion about chips and people couldn't believe nobody heard of their local chips and thought they were the best. I've found that good chips pretty much taste the same. You can always get lower rung chips nationally, Lays, Herr's, etc. which aren't bad.
Pretzels are big, too. I'm getting hungry.
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Old 03-30-2011, 05:16 AM
 
Location: NW Penna.
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Why does PA seem to have way more kinds of potato chips?
Dunno. We grow a lot of potatoes? There are a myriad of flavors that go with potato, but only just so many flavors you can put on a pretzel and still have it be edible? Catholics prefer potato chips, and the pretzels are dying along out with the aging WASP minority? It might be the next great social crisis, lol!
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Old 03-30-2011, 08:28 AM
 
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I remember taking a tour of Utz seeing how they sourced potatoes all up the Eastern Seaboard. I don't think too many potatoes are actually grown in PA beyond family plots or some of the muck land in Potter County.
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Old 03-30-2011, 08:38 AM
 
Location: Philly
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Pennsylvanians eat more potato chips and pretzels per capita than any where else. They also aren't health conscience so they like good potato chips. Many chips are fried in lard which give them a crunchier more greasy taste.
People will swear by their local chips. There was a discussion about chips and people couldn't believe nobody heard of their local chips and thought they were the best. I've found that good chips pretty much taste the same. You can always get lower rung chips nationally, Lays, Herr's, etc. which aren't bad.
Pretzels are big, too. I'm getting hungry.
herr's is regional (nottingham, pa I think). their kettle cooked are pretty good. hard to believe lay's is even the same kind of product. total crap. a lot of local chips actually taste like potatoes rather than salty crunch.
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Old 03-30-2011, 08:40 AM
 
Location: PA/FL/UT
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Utz, I haven't had them in awhile. I think its the PA Dutch (Amish) thing. To this day I still go out of my way to find potato bread wherever I live.
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Old 03-30-2011, 08:46 AM
 
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Hartley's!!!!! :d
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Old 03-30-2011, 09:33 AM
 
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Troyer Farms is where it's at not that they're really gonna be around anymore....they shut down their plant in Erie. Sucks.
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