Utz Quality Foods - Potato Chips Review

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lbeckley
Middletown, MD

Been eating them since 1967

health conscious, trying to pick healthier foods, a potato chip addict, willing to pay for quality

Pros

delicious, always fresh, from fresh ingredients

Cons

Limited availability

OCT

2007

    Utz, one of the best chips I ever tasted. They have been around since 1921, when Bill and Salie Utz were trying for a fresher potato chip. They started making them in their summer kitchen at 50 pounds per hour under the name of "Hanover Brand Potato Chips", in Hanover, Pennsylvania. As they out grew and could afford to enlarge their facility or build on a new site. The quality continued to be their main goal and still is the companies interest today.
    Salie passed away in 1965 and Bill followed in 1968. The company is run by their son-in-law, F.X. Rice and continues to make chips with the freshest ingredients. Utz is the largest independent privately held snack companies out there today and produces more than one million pounds of chips per week for distribution from Maine to North Carolina. The line changed to suit the tastes of a changing society, adding pretzels, corn chips and snack mixes to their full line of chips.
    If you visit there 600,000 square foot facility at 900 High Street, Hanover, Pennsylvania, they will give you a tour Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. till 4 p.m. Visit their web site at utzsnacks.com. There is a virtual tour you take online.
    As an adolescent, I went to work in the restaurant of my future in-laws (although I did not know it yet) in 1967. The chips they put on the plates with sandwiches came in a big gold can labeled Utz Potato Chips. They were the regular chips, but they were so good, fresh crisp and delicious. There were many chip companies out there, but Utz was the best. Later when my husband and I ran the restaurant we continued the tradition. Many times I can remember being too busy to eat a meal and would just grab some chips till I had time to sit down.
    Today we are retired from business, but we still enjoy a good potato chip to accompany our lunch or as a snack. Chances are it's Utz, although, we don't have to settle for the plain chips, as Utz has many flavored chips to compete with a still growing market of snack foods. Among my favorites are regular chips, sour cream & onion, salt & pepper, crab, cheddar & sour cream and honey bbq.
    Still the same good quality and taste I remember as an adolescent.

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My in-laws down in FL used to get huge plastic barrel of Utz's mix, containing pretzels, nacho chips, cheetos, etc. Kind of like a the more widely known mix of "Munchies." But the Utz's were so much better!