Comments on: Food pr0n https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098 Cutting straight to the point Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:34:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tom Frank https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21993 Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:34:53 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21993 The Herr’s factory in Nottingham, PA offers tours, and the highlight is the tour giude retrieving a batch of still hot potato chips from the machine and passing them out after they cool to a safe temperature. Can’t get any fresher than that…

There is also a marshmallow factory in Las Vegas that offers tours…fresh marshmallows are another treat to behold.

Book recommendation: “Watch it made in the USA”, which lists factory tours in all 50 states.

]]> By: chsw https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21992 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 22:26:58 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21992 Satisfying Meryl’s potato chip jones:

Middletown has the Rt. 11 Potato Chip factory: http://www.rt11.com/

Staunton has Curry’s Kitchn Cookd Potato Chips (540-886-4473)

Moore’s Snacks has a chip plant in Bristol, which was once a Wise factory.

Also, doesn’t Richmond have FFV, the largest maker of Girl Scout Cookies?

chsw (10 boxes of Mint Cookies every year)

HEY! Meryl does something PC!

]]> By: Jim Katz https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21991 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:11:09 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21991 I make an evening snack by slicing a third of a baking potato real thin with my electic slicer. Fry til crispy on the griddle with garlic oil and seasoning.. Ymmmm.

]]> By: Christopher Hlatky https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21987 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 16:02:10 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21987 Utz is one of the things that make me proud to be a Pennsylvanian. (Hershey’s, too.)

I still remember some of the billboards for them in the Philadelphia area:

“New Orleans. Great Jazz. No Utz.”
“Too bad for the rest of the world.”

]]> By: Meryl Yourish https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21984 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 14:05:00 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21984 Cynic, the fact that a doctor told me my cholesterol needs to be lowered does not in any way mitigate my lifelong worship of the fried potato in all of its wonderful, myriad forms.

Tortilla chips are okay once in a blue moon, but they’re not made from potatoes.

I still need to find a place that sells Snowden potatoes retail. I want to make a batch of chips with them and see what the difference is.

]]> By: Cynic https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21983 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:58:17 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21983 And only a few posts ago you were on statins? :-)

By the way came across this link about blueberries being effective in reducing LDL:
New research shows blueberries lower LDL cholesterol better than statin drugs

]]> By: MrFred https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21982 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:54:00 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21982 the chips they sell in the Utz factory store are fresh, not hot out of the fryer fresh, but there’s a world of difference between the Utz you get in the supermarket vs. from their factory store. (while we were dating, my wife lived in Gettysburg, and when I’d come up on a weekend, we’d sometimes go over to Hanover, and the Utz store was a required stop.)

]]> By: MrFred https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21981 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:50:30 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21981 the Utz factory is in Hanover, PA, which is only a few hours drive from Richmond. close to Gettysburg, so make a weekend of it or something.

]]> By: chsw https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21979 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 13:03:30 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21979 Abuelita Tortilla Chips are made in Manassas, a short drive from you.

chsw

]]> By: Paul https://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098/comment-page-1#comment-21978 Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:29:10 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2006/10/05/2098#comment-21978 How about 5th Avenue candy bars ?

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