Food of the Seventies, Hostess Fruit Flavored Potato Chips
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For a fleeting moment in the late 70's , Hostess had a line of fruit flavored chips. 3 flavors; cherry, orange, and grape. They were the nastiest things to ever appear in a corner store. Everyone I've ever talked to about these abominations has a vivid vomitting memory as well...
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I remember these! I remember seeing practically a full bag, thrown up right outside a convenience store!!
My favorite out of all three was the cherry chips then the grape. Sorry orange you come in last. Was great fun when I was a kid. Wished I could still get them.
$$$$$$$ hi , looking to buy these empty or full chip bags of the 70s 80s ,, if you have any of these bags ,or old candy wrappers .email me at. goldenwine@rogers.com or call 519-721-3585 canada.
A few years ago i had this God awful taste in my mouth and it triggered a deja vu feeling. For years afterwards I would get the taste again out of the blue usually and not be able to place it. I remember trying to recall where I had tasted that taste before. Then one day it came into my head out of nowhere that it was grape chips. I remember asking a few people if they remembered grape chips but nobody did. Now thanks to the internet I have proven that I haven't lost my mind but actually did have grape chips in the late 70s when i would have been about five or six. lol!
I remember having fruit flavoured chips in 1979. The clerk that sold them to me said Hostess was test marketing them in a few cities (I was in windsor). Since I never saw them after that few months, I assumed they didn't catch on. To me it tasted like chips sprinkled with koolaid powder or lik-a-maid candy. Yuck they were gross!
I remember those horrible things. I took a taste of one chip (grape) and threw the bag away...it was the only time I ever littered. These chips were a BAD idea...LOL!!!!!!
THanks to all posters. You have proven to my wife that I am not insane (unlike Hostess). I bought mine in Calgary 1979. Tin-foil bag,25 cents (no GST)....absolutely awful. I Asked the store for my money back, got it. Should have kept them, might be worth a buck or two........... or not.
omg. NO ONE, absolutely NO ONE I talk to remembers these !! I finally googled it and found all of you... my NEW FRIENDS !! I was starting to think it was a figment of my imagination.
Sometimes I wondered if these were one of the many hallucinations I experienced during the late 70's. I am so glad to know they were real, since they didn't last more than a few days at the local Macs. What kind of madness would permit the release of such a horrendous product? I wish I could have sat in on the meeting where they got the thumbs up from management! Didn't anybody at Hostess taste one before sending them out the door?
I have a vintage foil Hostess chip bag from the 70's. Found it in our house when we moved in.
Too funny! Talk around the dinner table turned to junk food we remember from the 70s. I was sure I was going to once again, be laughed at for my apparent hallucination of fruit flavoured chips. Me and my dinner companion were so relieved to both have experienced this hallucination that we had to google the chips and see if we weren't alone. Bonding over bad food choices. Gotta love the internet. :)
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