&%*#@! It's hard enough to find Old Dutch chips out here in Ontario. Apparently Hostess has managed to arrange the same kind of deal with the big grocery chains many years ago. The only place I have found them is in one of the smaller specialty grocery stores.

Hey, you had me going for a second. Good one. It reminds me of reality (ie. the boycotting of French fries by the dumbass Yanks).

Of course, there's always the possibility that this isn't a bit of sarcasm on your part, given just how dumb you are, so I'd like to point out that Old Dutch is an American company.

Methinks I'll be going to get my red bull at another location...

I support your boycott!

I love those Old Dutch Twin Bag Boxes. My favorite is BBQ. In 20 years I still can't open that bag with a) scissors or b) having the chips fly across the room.

As long as they don't replace them with Old Prairie buffalo chips...

Relax robert.

Businesses don't sign exclusive contracts for any goods in short periods. Contracts take months, not days and they tend not to do so because "interest groups" are throwing tantrums about the Danes.

That and Denmark and Holland are not the same country.

WOW!!!
Robert comes to this website and in less than 50 words insults the owner of the website AND an entire nation.
Keep talking Robert - your display of ignorance and hatred is really quite fascinating.

Gee, Old Dutch Chips are getting hard to find?

Spare me!

I was out at our local bar last week, needless to say they had no food service at that hour (7 PM), so I asked for a bag of BBQ chips - they were OD.

I can not tell you how bad they were. First of all, the best before date was a month ago. The chips were not stale, but they lacked any bbq taste at all.

Lays chips are far superior to the Old Dutch chips that I grew up with.

Sad, but true.

When I first watched Corner Gas I knew it was for real because I saw the Old Dutch rack. Travis, I don't know how you found those chips here in Ontario. Several years ago I heard that they made some progress in ordinary stores, but got muscled out by the bigger firms who are apparently able dictate this kind of stuff to smaller stores.
And that two bag package; in my Sask days it was one with beer and one next day for breakfast.
I've heard the reason why other companies don't do that is so you'll eat them all at once and have to buy more.
And Robert? You're an annoying little cur. As always, a cuff or a kick is better than no attention, isn't it?

Chips, schmips, just don't screw with the slurpees.

Get it yet?

It's a test to see who among us are really just irrational hotheads and who can use the occasioanl barb just to get a reaction from the hotheads.

BEHEAD THOSE WHO SAY THAT BOYCOTTING 7-11 IS VIOLIENT!

WOW indeed...

I'm stunned by Robert McClelland's two-fer post...especially considering the fevered logic (or lack thereof), misrepresentations and outright falsehoods he regularly posts on his blog...what Chutzpah...truly amazing.

Perhaps Robert is just trolling over here among the enlightened for some tea and sympathy (and some chips..!)

You must be relieved to finally find something that you know enough about that you can comment authoritatively on it!

Good for you!

Robert - sometimes a chip is just a chip.

Old Dutch is an American company?

You don't say, talk about false advertising. And here I always thought it was from the Netherlands, you know the windmill and shoes et al.

I bet it is a Muslim conspiracy, just got the wrong country, Denmark is just north of the Netherlands.

;-)

I grew up on Old Dutch, but prefer Lays. Well actually I can't preferr any, the wife has me on this eat healthy diet...

Even the potatoe chip box is starting to smell good...

This Robert boob is the same Quisling pussy that thinks we should accept the so called "truce" from Bin Laden. This guy must be sniffing model glue or something.

Perhaps Robert can only get a lay with cold hard cash and then gets things confused.

Old Dutch forever.

Wayne in Wetaskiwin

Seeing that this is a food boycott thread:

Did you know that in December Canbra Foods changed Canola Harvest Soft Margarine from 100% Canola to Canola + Palm Oil. It now tastes like the rest of the marg on the shelf.

I wrote them and suggested politely that they were pulling a fast one and were substituting cheap palm oil in the mix to reduce the cost (still selling for the same price in Safeway).

What they told me was that they wanted to REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF TRANS-FAT in my diet.

What a crock. The new stuff tastes awful. What about all the farmers in Alberta and Saskatchewan trying to make a living selling canola, but the company that was set up to market canola is now importing palm oil!!!!

I want my old margarine back!!!

BOYCOTT NOW

I grew up next to the Old Dutch plant in Winnipeg. You could smell what flavour they were making on any given day. I remember watching poor little kids from the housing development climbing into the BFI bin to look for expired treats.

BTW Sour Cream and Onion don't smell too good.

I grew up next to the Old Dutch plant in Winnipeg. You could smell what flavour they were making on any given day. I remember watching poor little kids from the housing development climbing into the BFI bin to look for expired treats.

BTW Sour Cream and Onion don't smell too good.

I remember Old Dutch. They were one of the main food groups growing up in Northwestern Ontario.
I tried some on my last trip up north and I must admit they seemed to have lost something in the years.

Kate, I'm surprised that after scolding us about fishing for trolls you set this story out. Like a pike, robert snaps at the bait, but then again it is a question of the level of brain power...

BTW: your average everyday rioting, bomb throwing Muslim extremist can't tell Holland from Denmark anyhow or even Austria for that matter but then again why let geography ruin a good jihad.

Don't tell me you don't know that the Dutch and the Danes are the inhabitants of two different countries? Oh my.

Robert, I like when you stirr those "clean" hipocrats. They just have to put beer and popcorn down and write.
priceless

Robert - sometimes a chip is just a chip.

You'd think so, but like I said, after the French fry fiasco you can't be too sure.

That's bullcrap. Old Dutch chips are the best.

Fortunately, I just quit eating them. But still...

- Chris, formerly of Winnipeg

And let me clarify, they're not better because they're from Western Canada... they're better because the (non-skimpy!) flavours are kick-ass and the chips themselves great quality.

"Robert - sometimes a chip is just a chip.

You'd think so, but like I said, after the French fry fiasco you can't be too sure."

Fish on!

Amazing that he can enunciate so clearly, what with the giant fish hook protruding from his cakehole, hahaha.

I have nothing against Trans-fats,but I don't think they should be allowed to hold a parade!

Robert, you never miss an opportunity to look like an ass, do you?

Without knowing about the story (which, admittedly, I ought to), I'd say that if 7-11 is going to only-Lay's products in their stores there's probably a simple reason:

7-11/Southland Corp: based in Dallas, Tex.
Frito-Lay Corp: based in Dallas, Tex.

Common denominator? Possibly. Next step: Only Dr Pepper drinks in their stores - now that would clearly be a plot worthy of Karl Rove and the Texas White House.

Meg in Edmonton
7th gen. Texan raised near Dallas

I remember watching a show in my youth (I think it "Live It Up" on CBC?) and they had several farmers from PEI blind taste test chips from across Canada. I think 5 of 6 chose the chips that were made in Western Canada as being the best tasting. Upon being told they were not PEI potato chips the PEI farmers' embarrassment was unmistakable.

Just goes to show you that PEI'ers don't know a good chip or a good political party until it bites them in the ass!

So we have potato chips.
Made in Texas.
In our stores.
Owned by Texas.
In our cities.
In Canada.

We're not making this up.

Gosh, how did the Liberal ad people miss this one?

chips are great for starting fires . they burn slow and complete leaving no trace of their existance . gret for campfires fireplaces and small arson jobs

I'm a Humpty Dumpty man myself and even those are starting to be hard to find in Ontario, and they are a superior chip to the bastardized Hostess chips from Frito Lay. Remember this is the company they still sells chips cooked in Olestra.

The key to Old Dutch's great taste, MSG.

Maybe ATonO Zerb, obviously an expert in junk food too, can go after this Dutch bigot too?
http://tinyurl.com/c57vg
(Thank you LGF)

Wasn't Old Dutch bought out by Frito-Lay a few years ago?

I use to like Scotties when I was a kid. Lays are okay. I changed out a big heat exchanger at the OD plant in Calgary many, many, moons ago. Nice people. Doctor says I should watch my salt intake. Damn chips! Fatwa on chips!

Hey, Rob made a funny... Trans Fats... parade... I like it.

...reminds me when I was staying at a hotel during a chocolate bar convention.

...all i heard next door was "Sweet Marie", "Oh Henry".

Yeah I know lame...nothing like a "chip" off the ol' block eh?

Greg: 'I use to like Scotties when I was a kid"

...isn't that toilet paper? No wonder they tasted bland unless you got...oh never mind...

*barf*

Frito-Lay is part of the Pepsi empire.

Old Dutch are the best. Alberta potatoes are crispier than the Bud the Spuds from PEI.and they havent had a bunch of CBC Avonlea camera men tromping through the fields.

anyone remember "Kids Bids" where you used your Old Dutch tater chip bags as auction money??

cal2: anyone remember "Kids Bids" where you used your Old Dutch tater chip bags as auction money??

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...not really, but I do remember when you opened a bag of Ol' Dutch chips, the bag was acutally full. Not this "sold by weight and not by volume" crap where 3/4 of the bag is empty air.

Plus those bags were easy to open, not this plastic airbag "arrrrggg...riiipppp" with chips flying all over the place crap they have now.

"to lock in freshness and keep you out..."

Tomax No I might have the spelling wrong Scotty's I think they were made by the Americans in the northeast. But when your a kid everything tastes good its only now that I've been married a while do I truly know what bland is but I love my wife and my cookings not the best either.

I admit it... I'm a local business booster. I buy OD, because they are Canadian. I couldn't tell the diff between one brand or the other. As Katers said "...sometimes a chip is just a chip". At the fire-setting rate of 3-4 bags/yr I doubt my patronage makes a diff, but I like to think so! Besides, I grew up seeing those bags in every store. :-)

Greg...I'm not addressing the spelling, it's a play on words...

Hint: Scotties = bathroom tissue

Bland taste as in eating the TP.
Flavoured as in...well it's not chocolate.
I hope I don't need to go further...

;-)

tomax no you don't. I caught the taste as to tp right away. a chip is a chip is a chip, my wifes' cooking on the other hand is another story. A fatwa on tasteless chips and my wifes cooking

Sorry, my wifes'cooking

well my wife cooks better than your wife

na na na.

And I got the 15 pounds to prove it.

To the men complaining about their wive's cooking, reminds me of an old Red Skelton joke.
He said his wife wanted to go someplace that she hadn't been for a long time to celebrate an anniversary. He suggested the kitchen.
All chips (KFC, AW, Mac) and potatoe chips are tasteless since they started using a different oil to cook them in, same with margarine. Blame the food facists for this. Now we are learning that all those low fat foods are not good for us. Guess the answer is to quit eating. And, OD chips are the best. As there is no 7-11 where I live guess I don't have to worry.

Hostess is the SUXX0R!!11one Go HUMPTY DUMPTY1!!!!

Never heard of Old Dutch Chips. The 'About' section of their website doesn't mention the USA, just Western Canada. So ... do we own the company or is it Canadian? Us Amurricans wanna know!

Is Robert McAddlepated correct, or is he still batting %1.000 in the Wrong Again Leagues? Why haven't his gratuitous attacks earned him a banning? What a strange human he is.

MaryT...just told my wife that joke and got a frying pan across the head...

*owie*

...well actually I had to duck because the frying pan is embedded in the wall

...here in Canada

...i'm not making this up.

(love that line)

Robert McClelland,

On behalf of everyone in the United States of America, I would like to apologize to you for existing. You are so superior in every way, it's clear that no one has permission to live unless you officially sanction them. So all of us "dumbass Yanks" will henceforth disappear. We'll never darken the shores of Canada again - nor will our tourist dollars, trade, or the presence of a global superpower that perhaps gives a bit of security to its neighbors.

Terribly sorry to have caused you any inconvenience.

Kate

Where did you find / hear that?

I just finished importing Old Dutch chips to Halifax from Vancouver. The Air Canada staff thought I was mad.

I remember when Old Dutch stopped making onion and garlic chips for a few years.Well after the fahtwa and chopping off a few executives heads and burning down a few old dutch offices the infidel swine return the onion and garlic chip to the true believers of our god the couch potato AAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEEEE BLESSED IS THE REMOTE.

Well down here in Wisconsin , I have access to all the Old Dutch chips I want , only they don't have onion and garlic .

They come out of the St. Paul MN. plant .

I do remember a brand of chips when I was growing up in Stonewall MB. named Old Swiss ,I think they were made in Teulon MB. They had a cheese and onion flavour that was ,to my 9 yr old palate , just the greatest.

Is there anything greater than chips after you've spent the afternoon swimming in the lake.