OK. I was born in the early 1960s, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Ground zero for junk food back then, because it was thought of as a luxury, and my people had the money to spend on "wonder foods" and advances in food sciences.
So it cam e as a surprise that "Chipnics" ever existed. How could I have miised this? We had Bugles to much and Choc-o-la to drink, But never a Chipnic was found in our house. And it was a Sealtest product? Sealtest was a dairy company. We drank Sealtest milk for crying out loud!
Upon finding this discovery, I feel cheated. Terribly cheated, at that.
Has anyone ever heard of Petrogallen? Would love to find out something about that...
sure, dorothy petrogallen, the broadway columnist.
ReplyDeleteDid a lot of people eat crisp- Sorry, chips in steam baths in the 60s?
ReplyDelete@Inexplicable DeVice: You could take Chipnics into the hot tub with you!
ReplyDeleteIn Massachusetts we had WISE Potato Chips.
ReplyDeleteI found a web site with the above picture and an explaination that Chipnics were huge sellers for a number years before being over taken by Pringles. But for the life of me, I don't remember them.
ReplyDeleteI never heard of them either Stu. Born in '59 I spent most of the 60's in NJ and upstate NY (definitely Sealtest country). I do remember when Pringles launched and the seemed like something totally new.
ReplyDeleteChipnicks - sounds like a Hebrew word for a little crunchy snacky thing.
WV - Sparoi. The French Royal Sparrow.
I was born in '55 and I remember Chipnics here in the Detroit area. I had just asked my wife if she remembered them. She said no. I described the box to her. Still no. I did a quick Google search and arrived here. I don't believe I've seen that Chipnics box since the mid '60's.
ReplyDeleteMy father invented Chipnics.
ReplyDeleteMy father invented Chipnics.
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