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Fruit chips ahoy!
Anyone that knows me reasonably well, knows that my favorite snack has to be chips. Yes, I’m an unabashed chip-a-holic. Growing up back home we had more brands than now, there were Lays yes, and Humpty Dumpty, but also Scotties (click the link for an image of those), and of course the big one of the time back home, Hostess.
Before the advent of the plastic bag we use now, chips came in these foil bags, we’d rip the top right off to get at them. Often Hostess would have a contest, and we’d have to be careful ripping the top because the entry was printed right on the inside of the bag in this blue ink. This ink also used to come off easily on your fingers, so I’m sure onto the chips as well…. yeah I’m sure that was good for me 🙂
Hostess also had these 3 … monsters? as mascots, they even had stuffed toy versions of them, I’m not sure if they had a name or not, but they showed up at all the events.
With a few exceptions (Dill Pickle, Ketchup (side note what ever happened to Catsup?)), I liked and like pretty much any kind of chips, but usually stick with the old standard “regular” or as they were and are known back home, plain. There were, however, three flavors released in the 70’s that even I couldn’t stomach.
I have a vivid recollection of them. Going to the doctor in Clarenville was an adventure in patience as appointments had no real correlation with time as we know it. I’m sure there’s a research paper about the effects of time dilation in medical clinics there somewhere. The main medical office in Clarenville in those days was down on the lower road, and it had its own drug store (Budget Drug Mart I believe, though I’m not even sure it had a name then). As a kid while waiting for an appointment I’d be up and down the stairs there a dozen times, looking at comics, wandering, alleviating boredom any way I could, often involving chips. But for some reason, Hostess introduced Grape, Cherry, and Orange chips back then. Being a chip-a-holic they all had to be tried. But that was it. I don’t think I could even finish a bag. These had to be the most horrendous things ever produced as a snack!
And oddly, now I want a package, just to remind myself how bad they were. Does anyone else remember these? Anyone have a picture?!
Raised in outport Newfoundland in a town of 65 people, I pursued a post secondary diploma in Information Technology right out of High School.
I’ve always been a geek at heart, but yet I love the rural life I grew up with. Fishing, hunting, camping and the great outdoors are still loves of mine, even if I don’t pursue them as often as I once did. Sports were always a big part of our lives, and I played many (badly) and loved them all.
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Those flavours sounds pretty nasty! I remember the brands though and the mascots. 🙂
They were, and the actual colored powder wasn’t all that enticing either! was like having your chips coated in Kool-Aid powder!
I remember them too. They were awful. I forgot about the mascots.
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=WwCsmUnptT8KTM&tbnid=9F5BsqsjEVIOnM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftimmccready.wordpress.com%2Fcategory%2Fmusic%2F&ei=MAQ1UZD-CI_V0gH8oIHwCA&psig=AFQjCNHSHxLPEEBHl0e80FHLQKQM79lFtA&ust=1362515376183245
Hey where did you get a picture of the old fruit flavoured chips? Man they were nasty!
I remember seeing these in a store when I was a kid, and then later on wondering if it was just a dream (i.e. nightmare). Thanks to the internet, I now see that they really existed. Crazy.