Rye Miles #13621 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Remember when they used to deliver to your house?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Never seen'em on the west coast. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted September 1, 2019 Author Share Posted September 1, 2019 6 minutes ago, The Original Lumpy Gritz said: Never seen'em on the west coast. OLG The company was started in 1942 when Effie Musser sold her potato chips through a distributor, who put them in distinctive tins, and named them Charles Chips after Charles Street in Baltimore. Effie and her husband soon took over the business and by 1946, moved production to a professional kitchen. They started offering home delivery of their chips, and added pretzels and cookies. In 1974, the business model of home delivery became more challenging. The company made a strategic move to develop retail packaging and market their products into groceryand convenience stores. In 1979, Charles Chips began distribution into the California market from the Calhoun, KY plant. In 1984, Charles Chips completed construction of a state-of-the-art pretzel and corn based snack production facility in Mountville, PA. In 1990, the company had wholesale revenue in excess of $45 million. In 1991, the Mussers sold Charles Chips to a group of investors from Philadelphia. This new company went bankrupt 18 months later. In 1993, Charles Chips was acquired by a popcorn company from Tampa, FL. They too went bankrupt about 18 months later. In 1996, Hillside Snacks in Arlington, NJ acquired the Charles Chips trademark and started marketing Charles Chips under a different recipe. In early 2011, the Scardino family bought the brand, with plans to bring back the original recipes and the tins. They now sell chips, pretzels, and cookies from their websit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 TNX for the history OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 I remember them in Indiana. YUMM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 When I was a kid we bought the tin cans of Charles Chips at the grocery store. We also bought Utz potato chips in similar cans. I never could figure out which chips were better but I enjoyed both brands. Thanks Rye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tex Wilson Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 I moved to AZ from Rockford, IL. where they had 2 potato chip makers, Mrs. Fishers, and Ol' Saltys. Both were very good and you could only buy them in the Northern Illinois area. I liked both of them, but I liked Mrs. Fishers the best. Really miss them, and they are still in business. I can order a 5 pound tub of Mrs. Fishers online for $47. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Charles Chips website: https://charleschips.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cypress Sun Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 My parents used to buy them all the time. Never was much of a chip eater but I used to drive my parents crazy using the cans as drums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loophole LaRue, SASS #51438 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 As a kid in PA, we had them delivered to the house - chips and pretzels in cans. Also had the milk man (Martin's Dairy) who left milk, chocolate milk, orange juice and lemonade, all in glass bottles with paper lids, in the metal milk box on the front step. It was a different time. Friendly personal service, no plastic, no stealing what's on your neighbor's stoop. LL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Never heard of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rye Miles #13621 Posted September 1, 2019 Author Share Posted September 1, 2019 29 minutes ago, Forty Rod SASS 3935 said: Never heard of them. That's okay, they've never heard of you either!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 3 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: That's okay, they've never heard of you either!! I can't even imagine anyone who hasn't heard of me. I'm in Famous. (Thats a little town not far from Show Low, Az. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. R. Hugh Kidnme Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 20 hours ago, Rye Miles #13621 said: Remember when they used to deliver to your house?? I do remember home delivery, and the same for their pretzels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shotgun Clay Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 I remember them as a kid in Maryland. I also remember when there were small local soda makers. Frostie Root beer and Marvel's Ginger ale. Last time I saw either, it was in a vending machine with the long thin door where you pulled the bottle out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted September 1, 2019 Share Posted September 1, 2019 Them things was really good,Rye. They got me hooked on chips when I was a young'un Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646 Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 I loved Charles Chips. And 40R you have a typo. Infamous, we think. Imis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Howdy, It would almost be worth ordering one package just to see..... Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tequila Shooter Posted September 2, 2019 Share Posted September 2, 2019 Growing up in NY I remember we used to get that, milk and soda delivered to our house, those were the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stogie Posted September 3, 2019 Share Posted September 3, 2019 Yep, used to be delivered to the house in a cool old truck. I remember as a kid sitting in front of the TV with the big can in my lap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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