Food of the Seventies, Hostess Potato Chips-fruit Flavored

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Hostess introduced fruit flavored potato chips. I remember Grape and Cherry. No one I know can remember these chips.They came out in Mid-70's. Didn't stay around for very long, though.
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Wayne - October 06, 2008 - Report this comment
Yes, I remember grape, cherry, and orange, but everyone I talk to does not remember these flavors.
junior - October 09, 2008 - Report this comment
I remember them well, but the BBq crunchits were the best - i think they were taken off the shelf because of a red dye colour didn't meet health standards - time to lobby hostess for a picture of thast little devil on the bag
munchies - October 21, 2008 - Report this comment
i remember grape,cherry and orange as well but only tried the orange.they tasted like chips with a slightly bitter tang powder on them.GROSS!!!!!!i think it was 1976.
Sher - December 03, 2008 - Report this comment
Iremember them too. I was really young. They were god-awful. No one else I know recalls them,
Kev - January 04, 2009 - Report this comment
I threw up about 10 minutes after eating the grape ones. I think I was about 8 or 9 years old
Barbs - March 12, 2009 - Report this comment
My husband remembers a Crunchits flavour from the 70's as sweet and sour or hot and sour. They were red coloured and had a devil on the bag. Were these the BBQ flavour or a different one? He'd die to taste them one more time.
Denise Briggs - April 21, 2009 - Report this comment
I remember those chips too!!! However no one else does! I thought they were Tang brand flavoured chips or something from Hostess. Remember Hostess chips in the foil bags? Those were the best! And so were their sour cream and onion chips back then, had like a powder to them, now they're gross :(
Robin - May 11, 2009 - Report this comment
Aaah ... sweet childhood memories and a marketing flop for Hostess. I remember them and thought they were cool even though they didn't taste very good. I forgot all about Crunchits!!! Now those were good!
peter - June 16, 2009 - Report this comment
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!
mitch - June 17, 2009 - Report this comment
I remember these fruit flavoured chips. They were gross and didn't seem to last very long.
Drew J. Marshall - June 29, 2009 - Report this comment
I certainly do remember those disgusting flavours of chips.....BLECH....they were awful. Does anyone remember in like 1972 or 1973 when Hostess introduced BBQ flavour and every bag came with a pre-wrapped gum ball....maybe just me then.
Richard - July 16, 2009 - Report this comment
Wow, I thought I was the only kook who remembers grape chips! I remember the foil Hostess bags - 25 cents each. Now I'm thinking about Bottle Caps, Ton O' Gum, Thrills, soap candies and all of the other junk I loved when I was 8 years old...
Luvey - July 16, 2009 - Report this comment
Why don't I remember these???? Were they maybe a regional thing? I have lived in PA all my life... Doesn't sound like I missed anything good! LOL
gigi - July 17, 2009 - Report this comment
I remember those chips!!! I was like 8-10yrs old. I am still a chip & junk food addict!!! (pretty slim STILL!! Remember the nacho flavoured Crunchits in the 80's......yellow in colour??? You can still order them at Hostess/ Frito Lay in Cambridge (head office) I bought a carton of them & enjoyed them!!!!! What about the Lifesaver stick gum,,,,,,,now wild cherry flavour was the BOMB!!! Oh , I want some now....lol.Awhile back for a limited time only they had the BBQ Crunchits,,,,soooooo goood!! Also, you must remember the Ketchup flavored stick by Hostess,,,now you only get the Hickory Sticks. PLEASE bring Back the KETCHUP FLAVOUR. I also remember the Hostess flavoured popcorn in a foil bag,,,,,the bbq, salt & vinegar & sour cream & onion WERE ALL GOOD!! I remember the Hostess Foil Bag of chips,,,,,think we got more in the 2 long white bags that were inside of the Foil or papery foil big bag...in the 70's. The Sour Cream & Onion must have been double dipped in the flavouring because they tasted soooooooo much better then!!. Chips & Pop were a Friday night treat in my house while watching THE LOVE BOAT & FANTASY ISLAND.....My parents were both teacher & very strict ABOUT JUNK FOOD,,,,which is actually a good thing,,,,your brain works better!!!
erica - August 25, 2009 - Report this comment
You can still buy Nacho Crunchits in Atlantic Canada.
Drew J. Marshall - October 05, 2009 - Report this comment
Yes Gigi......that flavoured popcorn was amazing....your family and mine must have been the only customers the bought it though, cause it vanished as quickly as it came.....Pizza Flavour was my favorite.
chipqueen - October 23, 2009 - Report this comment
I definitely remember the grape, cherry and orange flavoured chips. I am a self professed Potatoe Chip Queen...tried EVERY new flavour that hits the market. (these ones were NOT amongst my favorites!!) I'm remembering them coming out in the late 70's. I was living in Nova Scotia in 1978 and tried them that summer.
Ken Burgin - October 24, 2009 - Report this comment
Does anyone remember the TV commercial for Hostess Crunchits from the late 1970's? It featured Bob Cratchit and Ebenezer Scrooge. The dialogue began: (Scrooge) Cratchit, what's that crunching? (Bob) Crunchits Mr. Scrooge. (Scrooge) Cratchits? (Bob) No, CRUNCHITS! etc., etc. I wrote that!
mantis1968 - October 27, 2009 - Report this comment
I recall Hostess making Hot Mexican chips (loved them) and Green Onion chips -- NOT Sour Cream & Green Onion, which came later. I have no recall of fruit-flavored chips, but I grew up in a small town, and we didn't get everything that came to the cities.

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