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Regional Potato Chip Brands You Need To Try By Brian Boone Nov. 23, 2025 9:40 am EST
At the beginning of the long and tasty history of potato chips , the classic snack and sandwich sidekick caught on as a regional product. The longer chips have to travel and sit around, staleness and breakage become concerns. While large companies eventually set up factories and distribution centers around the country (and the world), they couldn't fully eliminate the well-entrenched local competitors that had given people their starchy, salty snacks for as long as a century or more, predating those national distribution networks. The very best plain potato chips and plenty of other varieties are still manufactured by regional companies. They're just that good, largely because the

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