I memba, you memba?

I memba and can almost taste dem “buhdaydohs” as my mother pronounced them.

I memba gettin buckets of bahdayduhs there.

I'm going to make garlic chips this afternoon. We picked up a big bag of garlic bulbs from Costco this week. Do those count as Granite State chips?

I tried going back there once and there was a vine growing over the doorway.

It is now a dunks. RIP to the best and one of the first manufactured potato chips in the US.

There was nothing like going in and getting a warm bucket hot out of the oven! Funny we were just talking about this at Christmas.

My dad would stop on our way to or from Hampton Beach. The 7 of us would make short work of the warm pail while driving.

A bucket if those chips and some onion dip. Perfect for movies on a Saturday night.

https://www.wmur.com/article/fritz-wetherbee-granite-state-potato-chips/19732264

or state line potato chips!

This thread’s got me hella nostalgic for Granite State chips, Foodies (Concord & Portsmouth), Yokens, and Peteys on 1A 😭

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For me the best thing about granite state chips was the fact they weren't those awful wise chips we had in our circle of stores. 1000 time better.

nobody says potato with a b.

Grinder shops always had Wise ☹️ Wise were only good if you put them IN the sandwich and not on the side

This was a restaurant or??

You even from nh?

I can count at least three in my family and three in my wife’s family that pronounce it “bo-day-dough”.

I miss these and Treat chips from east end of Long Island. Nothing like fresh from the fields!

That place was wicked awesome kid.

Made in Salem, right? I vaguely remember the big bucket.

My grandparents would take me out to lunch, but stop at Granite State potato chips first and put the bucket of chips in the backseat, with ~10yo me. Pure torture. I became a pro at being as quiet as I could opening that bucket to steal a few.

Found a sad photo just after they closed shop.

And this article shows their original 1932 trucks!

so do i. So long ago?

They made potato chips. Think the Krispy Kreme version of potato chips.

Correct.

Potato chip company. They had a storefront where you could scoop out your own freshly made chips out of a huge trough to fill a big cardboard box or even a (branded) bucket.

Or Good's, made with lard.

My mom used to take me here as a kid. We walked in for a bucket and we would just be standing in the factory

I was literally thinking of this yesterday.

I miss clam flavored chips. (Been so long since I've had them I can't even remember who made them...)

My grandmother absolutely 100% pronounces the word "potatoes" with not a single phoneme right except the middle vowel.

/bɑːˈdeɪd.ɑːz/ instead of /pəˈteɪ.toʊs/

Fun fact: the chips in the hopper weren’t “fresh out of the cooker”. They cooked once a week and stored them in 50 gal barrels. And would dump them in the hopper behind that wall.

Source: I worked there in high school. Feel free to ask me any questions.

Question: can they reopen and sell these chips or maybe the recipes at least? 😂

Hah no. Unfortunately the owner, Buddy Kroft of Salem passed away a few years ago. Recipe died with him. It was just peanut oil and salt tbh.

Friend in Salem would by them for us by the bucket load. Any place in New England almost as good?

You've got me all misty. I grew up in Salem, and my parents used to bring us to get a bucket every Saturday to keep at home. We each got a pretzel rod when we went (they were like 5 cents from a glass jar on the counter). Damn, I had a great childhood (and awesome parents) :)

Humpty Dumpty

Great chips but I think they had to shut the place down in salem due to a SERIOUS rat problem. When I was a kid I used to trick or treat in my grandpas neighborhood and his neighbor who worked for them would always give out bags as treats and they were my favorite.

There was a soda machine in front that had both orange and grape soda. That place was a jackpot when I was a kid.

Dont forget about the pretzels, too! Classics.

Thanks for the memories. We went there every weekend, on our way to the lake! I took my kids a couple of times, when they were little (like 20 years ago), and they were amazed at chilps coming down the flute into a pile! I miss Benson's, too ☺

And they had the oldest known registered use of the Old Man in advertising. Pretty cool. Thanks for sharing.

The smell outside of this place! 😋 😋 😋

So delicious

I miss breakstones clam dip.. paired with state line chips

A bucket of those chips, and getting the ones with a grease bubble in them were magical.

Ah ,yes. Watching the chips come down the shoot into a box. So fresh, so good.

Wise chips are too salty.

Yup, loved their chips too but they had been in decline a while. My dad got a case of chips at the fire station he worked at. Every bag had ants. Sad they couldn’t keep things going.

Lived about 5 Mi away from that place. A bucket was a Non-Stop staple in my household for as long as it was there. Miss it so much.

SONUVABITCH! I was JUST telling my wife about these delicious beauties I used to enjoy as a child in the 80s! I couldn't remember the name of them until I came across this post.

Sure wish they were still around though.

I remember in the early 90’s a family from Colorado took over ownership. I think it only lasted a couple more years after that.

The Kroft family was always the owners of Granite State Potato Chip Company. Same family from beginning to end.