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Utz Potato Chip Co Inc
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9 reviews for Utz Potato Chip Co Inc
I don't recall having had Utz potato chips before but decided to stop by Hanover for a factory tour at this potato chip maker. and oh my goodness......am i in love with Utz!!!
First off, it was quite a task finding the Utz factory that holds the tours. There are at least 3 Utz factories in Hanover - we stumbled upon the other two while searching for the main one. i won't be surprised if there are a couple more just lurking around town somewhere.
the self-guided tours are free. Utz goes the extra mile to welcome visitors. there are 2 levels to the factory - 1st floor is the production line and the 2nd level is a corridor with glass windows, built for visitors to watch from as they walk and follow every stage of the production. And at each section of the potato chip making process, there are recorded audio explanations - which i think is better than having a real life tour guide just because there are typically rigid group tour times that one has to adhere to in the case of the latter,for eg; tour begins every hourly - much less flexibility.
And at the end of the tour, you get a mini packet of Utz potato chips. free tour and free food! Oh, i'd also like to mention that the factory's really clean and well run.
I highly recommend stopping by the factory outlet store on Carlisle Road. It has sooooo many types of Utz brand snacks and at great prices too! I love love love love love their Baked Cheddar & Sour Cream and Pumpernickel pretzels. I'd never had gotten them (who'd known I'd enjoy pumpernickel pretzels!!) had i not tried the free samples available there. The Baked Cheddar & Sour Cream potato chips are so good its unbelievable! And you can get a coupon at the tour location for a $1 off $5 purchase and get LOTS of goodies at a mere $4!!! and the Utz people are soooooo nice they even threw in an extra bag of organic pretzels for free. So i left the store with many many bags of chips and pretzels - and happy. =)
Yum......i HIGHLY recommend the tour and Utz potato chips. me love Utz!!!
oh..and the audio guides pronounced Utz as Uh-tz, not ooh-tz....
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Utz are great potato chips and a lot more. My favorite are the regular potato chips that have been an Utz standard forever. Living in Hanover, near the Utz factory, when the wind is just right, the aroma can make you soooo hungry. Weavers Silk Screening and Custom Embroidery supplies their shirts.
UPDATE 6/25/07 So I got my new shipment of Hot Chips and not one bag exploded!! I am giving UTZ's their fifth star. Their customer service is outstanding!!! Check out my pictures too. Now I have to decide who is worthy enough to get a bag of my precious chips......
RED HOT CHIPS!!!!!! oooohhhhh.......yummmmmy!!! Yummy, Yummy, Yummy!
So every time I go to the east coast I pick myself up a few bags...okay 8 bags at a time of Herr's Red Hot chips. But this last trip back east I couldn't find one bag of Herr's Red Hots, so I decided to try out Utz's Red Hot potato chips. SO good and tasty and HOT. These yummy little chips are thinly sliced potato chips filled with flavor and have a light crispy crunch...so good. I also tried their Crab flavored Chips oh man, I can't even explain how delicious this flavor is. I was eating Red Hots and Crab flavor chips for breakfast, lunch, dinner, mid night snacks all day, I tell ya on my two week vacation. I even broke out in a rash and I thought it could have been from the potato chip overload I was giving myself, but that did stop me from eating. Oh NO!
Now that I am home here in California I was fiending for my red hots. So I ordered a case. A week later I got a box of twelve 5oz bags of my red hots at my door, happy day! I wanted to also buy my crab chips, but I didn't want to scare my husband. Anyhow. I ripped open the box and to my disappointment 7 bags out of the 12 had busted open during shipping! I called Utz's customer service line the next morning and I was pleasantly surprised when the lady told me she will ship me a whole new case! YAHOOOO!!!! I will give an update on how that delivery goes.
If you go to the east coast....Either P.A., N.J., N.Y. you have to pick up a bag of RED HOTS or CRAB flavored CHIPS! You will be addicted. Ask my husband.
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There may be no Chilli-cheese fritos, Flamin' Hot anything, or Lime chips on the East Coast, but there ARE Crab Chips, Salt n Pepper Chips, and the most orange of the orangest cheese curls --all courtesy of Utz. No complaints from me, it hits the spot when I come home plastered. I finish a bag in one sitting.
ps.
Utz is not pronounced like putz.
It's 'oooh'tz as the o's in koo
I emailed them to ask cuz I'm so kool with a 'k' -rolls eyes
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I think everyone near Hanover, PA has their favorite Utz flavor. While I like the crab chips, the Carolina BBQ is my favorite. Since I discovered them, I've never eaten one of those orangey "Barbeque" chips ever again.
If you buy the chips from the factory store, you won't get that much of a price break from warehouse clubs but the chips are so fresh you can smell them through the package.
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Utz is kinda cool, factory tours monday through thursday, but not friday. we arrived and they had closed early for the day. pretty dissappointing. though utz has lots of cool flavors nad great snacks. I personally love their Bay Crab chips, they're the bomb.
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Eat a bag of crab chips, and then spread the good news 'round the world! Peace!
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A must on my trips home to PA. Makes for great gifts to lug back to the office, when I get back to SF (bringing back food ((especially chocolate covered junk food)) = good office karma). Personally, I dig chocolate covered potato chips and pretzels. Oh, and cheese balls too. Love the cheese balls.
Oh yeah, I'm with Mila. South central PA is like the Napa Valley of potato chips. You got so many good chip companies here - much to my wife's chagrin. I'm always jonesing for crab chips and you can't get crab chips or any other decent chips in CA. The best I have found is at the commissary where they have started carrying Snyder's of Hanover multi grain cheese curls and sunflower chips. Not quite Utz, but better than nothing! Just like I make a bee line for In and Out when I get back west (grilled cheese all the way, baby!), I similarly head straight for my friendly neighborhood Weis Markets in PA where they stock a veritable treasure trove, no, dare I say a cornucopia of local potato chip perfection. Of which Utz stands preeminent. So here is my question - if those chowder heads at Lays can distribute chips nationally, hell, even internationally, why can't Utz develop some sort of nationwide distribution chain? I've never been able to figure that one out. I guess that's why I never did finish up my PhD in the economics of potato chip manufacturing. But I definitely have my Ph.D. (not to mention my LLM and Ed.D.) in the eating of potato chips!
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