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Doctuh OP t1_jdoeik1 wrote

Bought two bags of Maine made chips today. Same brand different flavors, one is a bag of "Potato" Chips and the other a bag of Potato Chips. Anyone know why one is quoted?

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bigspoutwhale867 t1_jdoi3lr wrote

Replying to LaChanz (#2,360,651)

Agreed. Their site shows all versions with the quotes: https://www.foxfamilychips.com

Maybe it’s supposed to be related to a quote from their story: Customers rave that the chips have “real potato taste” unlike any other chip and are so addictive.

https://www.foxfamilychips.com/our-story.html

Also, the Wicked Hot BBQ is pretty good, but not so wicked hot to me. Just a good amount of spice.

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acister t1_jdoj090 wrote

lol noticed this years ago and thought it was funny they haven't changed it, very good chips, "potato" or potato, I love them

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NipDrunkChipmunk t1_jdojf5i wrote

These are top tier potato chips! I bet they were under the impression that quotes add emphasis. Hopefully they are phasing out that design.

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historywhiz63 t1_jdomc4a wrote

I’m dead. My family produces these chips so I’ll let my cousin know about quality control 😂

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pamgun t1_jdoq5o5 wrote

Best potato chips ever!

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119juniper t1_jdori7e wrote

I love these chips despite the grammatical issues.

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fauxfox66 t1_jdorr4l wrote

Hey thanks for buying! My dad and my family make these, and we love seeing them reach a new audience! Hope you enjoyed!

This is an unofficial Fox Family statement, but: I've seen my Dad be asked this question (been asked it myself at food shows) and he always looks baffled and answers something like "why not?" So his grammar isn't top tier. He says he got his degree on the i95 (truck driver).

Also, he was having his daughter type this logo on a dial-up desktop computer using MS paint or something, as his eldest daughter had drawn the foxes, his youngest son had colored them, and it was so important to him that we all be involved. So she would type and lay it out. This was somewhere around 2000, maybe 1999.

I was maybe 7 or 8 years old, okay? He wanted emphasis and the underline wasn't looking right so I used quotation marks. Trust me, they looked better than italics.

Now, branding styles have changed and this is dated, but heck, so are we all up here in the county, and we smile about it rather than cringe. And changing the entire logo, all the plates to do so are wildly expensive. (And I suspect people would be strange about the change- when we added "wicked" and "hot" to the BBQ bags, everyone thought we had a new flavor. We're dated here in the county, and probably problematically resistant to change.)

Thanks for your question and spreading the word about our chips!

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DidDunMegasploded t1_jdou4ak wrote

Never had these chips in my 20+ years of living here. Gonna pick up a bag next time I go, if I can thin out my box of snacks a little.

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Girhinomofe t1_jdou58q wrote

Replying to historywhiz63 (#2,361,341)

I’ve always found humor in the quotation marks, but the first time I had this brand was at the brewery out on Monhegan Island, and damn— these things are so good I’ll just let the grammar slide!

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5MART13TT t1_jdovftz wrote

Wicked Hot is the chip to end all chips. My absolute favorite.

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johnnyzissou t1_jdow9an wrote

These chips are so damn good. Salt and vinegar ones go hard.

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Logical-Ad2288 t1_jdoz6p4 wrote

True story!

I work as a nurse in the county and one day I asked the owners daughter-in-law (who happens to also be a nurse, last name Fox!) why it says “chips”. So she went home at the end of her shift and asked her husband to ask his dad and his response was, “I have no idea, I was never really that good at English in grade school.” Haha

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hateboss t1_jdp1vkd wrote

Replying to fauxfox66 (#2,361,904)

Using quotations marks for emphasis is actually a real Boomer thing with an actual reason behind it. Back when typewriters were used, there was no bold or italicized font as you would need a whole new typeset, so they commonly used quotation marks to provide emphasis.

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Quick_End2366 t1_jdp4kda wrote

Holy crap, who cares? Who let the summer school English teacher in here?

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Skippyandjif t1_jdp7mk9 wrote

These blow every other chip I’ve had out of the water. They’re amazing. My brother even mails them to people out of state as gifts, like, we have family members who live elsewhere and specially request these haha.

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ragtopponygirl t1_jdp7zbz wrote

I recently went through some weird, out of the blue chip craze and over a month tried every brand of salt and vinegar chip I could get my hands on. I've never been much of a potato chip eater so this sudden obsession was bizarre. Anywho, HANDS DOWN these were the winner! God Lays just suck.

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Norrland_props t1_jdpda5k wrote

Quotes or no quotes. Best chips hands down. We buy multiple bags of each flavor on our way to camp. They last about two days. New flavor? No need.

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cmcrich t1_jdpmlmj wrote

Well, dammit, I’m going to have to hunt these down, I’ve never noticed them before.

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MrsMurphysChowder t1_jdppgdu wrote

Replying to fauxfox66 (#2,361,904)

What a cool story! And thanks for that explanation. I love potato chips, they are calming to my ibs, (guys, read about resistant starch) but can't have stuff like Pringles because they use gluten. I will have to look for your family's chip brand. I am a Maine business owner, too, and like to support other small businesses.

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wrektafyr t1_jdq8zj7 wrote

Best thing to come outta the County since...uhhhhh...well...I'll get back you on that

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Larabic t1_jdqayvn wrote

Love that the BBQ chips third ingredient is cayenne pepper, can get a chip that bites back every once and a while.

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IllustratorNo2953 t1_jdqbl9p wrote

I was so surprised at the taste of these chips when I moved to the area that I brought some to family to try. I pass by the "chip factory" in Mapleton often. It's very non-descript, not even a sign out front. Thanks for such a delicious local product!

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RoiDuNord t1_jdqjspm wrote

you can order them directly from the internet and save…

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headieheadie t1_jdqlki2 wrote

Oh boy. My friend’s family is hosting a lobster bake at their house out on Peak’s Island. But it won’t just be lobster. There will be red hot’s, oakhurst super premium chocolate milk and now all dressed chips.

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Doctuh OP t1_jdqmr7l wrote

Replying to fauxfox66 (#2,361,904)

Thank you for the reply! It was more of a curiosity for me than anything. Please let the family know they make one hell of a chip! I can't keep an open bag alive for more than a day in my house.

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PahpiChulo t1_jdqrp5e wrote

Replying to fauxfox66 (#2,361,904)

Having grown up with Humpty Dumpty back in the 70s and 80s, I knew that they would be gone in spirit once they were taken over. Your chips were sent to us when my wife bought us a lobster roll dinner to be shipped to Florida. On the one hand, they were fantastic and the Yankee quality is there. On the other, the arrived crushed and ended up getting a partial refund on the order.
I guess my question is can you ship to Florida without the lobster roll accompaniments?

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civildisobedient t1_jdqzqum wrote

Replying to hateboss (#2,363,023)

No, they would use underline. Using quotation marks like this predates the typewriter by a few hundred years:

> The 1549 edition of a French book entitled Champ Fleury, for instance, set Latin quotations in italics, creating a precedent for later books to employ quotation marks or italics to call out text that their authors felt was worthy of note. The marking of such “gnomic utterances or sententiae”—weighty, proverbial or otherwise notable aphorisms—was immensely popular among readers and writers of the time

Also, Boomers (born in the 40s-50s) were already young adults by the 1970s and 80s and would thus be pretty familiar with keyboards and computers.

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A_Common_Loon t1_jdr3n2b wrote

Replying to civildisobedient (#2,370,895)

A lot of typewriter conventions come from typesetting conventions. People used quotation marks instead of italics while using a typewriter precisely because it was commonly done in typesetting too.

Also I think the number of boomers using word processing programs in the 70s and 80s was probably very small. Maybe an actual one can weigh in but my my dad was born in 1947 and we had computers really early, but he still used his typewriter for most writing and we didn’t get a word processing program until the 90s.

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TheDogIsGod t1_jdr69yv wrote

These are the best potato chips in the whole world prove me wrong

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Quick_End2366 t1_jdr7390 wrote

Replying to HedsyZebsy (#2,367,269)

Relax! I was just saying taking the trouble to go on Reddit and point out a typo on a chip bag js a bit pedantic. If you get off on pointing out errors that others haven’t noticed then by all means have at it

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pervymcperversson t1_jdreoi5 wrote

Replying to fauxfox66 (#2,361,904)

I'm typically not one to fawn over or get excited about people, BUT SEEING YOUR COMMENT ON REDDIT HERE MADE MY DAY. I love these chips so so much and don't know what I'd do without them. I eat them more than I'd care to admit (and more than is good for me..) but heck. They're so worth it.

Thank you to you and your family for doing what you do and just making such an impeccable product. Please don't ever stop. My tastebuds and happiness life depends on it.

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earthtokhaleesi t1_jdriv56 wrote

I’m craving these! I bought some while visiting Mount Desert Island over the summer and now I need them!! -a 9 months pregnant Floridian.

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NoFeetSmell t1_jdrue56 wrote

Replying to fauxfox66 (#2,361,904)

I'm currently living in England, but have spent half my life living in both New England, and original flavour England, and I'm always utterly baffled by the absence of chip/crisps flavours in the States, vs what's available here in the UK. Why doesn't anyone in America make roast chicken, beef, or bacon flavoured chips, since they're all universally beloved in the States already?! Not to mention some other righteous flavours, like pickled onion, prawn cocktail, or even just basic cheese flavoured Lays, specifically sans the sour cream? I think it's so baffling, since the country is fucking huuuuge, and there's presumably gotta be a market, but I've literally never even seen an attempt to test the waters for one.

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Hossbog t1_jdscfw4 wrote

Replying to fauxfox66 (#2,361,904)

I love your chips, the only reason I found them is all of the stores in Lubec and Machias sell them and I am up there for work frequently.

I bought 2 boxes off of you guys a while ago and gave them to everyone who came visit for a while to spread the word!

I love these chips and do my best to tell everyone I know about them!

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Bartweiss t1_jdsuxs6 wrote

Replying to fauxfox66 (#2,362,248)

If it influences anything, Ruffles says the have no plans to bring All Dressed back to the USA. I’ve got 0 all dressed options near me, and it’s a terrible state of affairs.

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OblongAndKneeless t1_jdt3tod wrote

Maine potatoes, am I right? It's my go to potato for cooking, especially mashed potatoes.

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Snoo_96358 t1_jdtfx8d wrote

Left. Im so a plain chip person..I swear in not boring though..

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ecco-domenica t1_jduktlr wrote

I'm not requesting a new flavor I just think it's pretty neat that a random comment like this could find the person who created the design. Maine is still a very small state in some ways.

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