Comments on: Discussion: Grippos, Mike-Sell’s, Husman’s and other local potato chips.

By: Naptown Nosher

Naptown Nosher — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:13:16 +0000

Grippos’s Bar-B-Q Chips have become an obsession as mine over the past few years, and I’m not even from Cincinnati! All other barbecue chips taste generic in comparison. They have the perfect blend of unique barbecue flavor and spice kick and they do all of this with a regular, non-ruffled, non-kettle-cook potato chip. With their more old-fashioned packaging, they’re definitely not in with the hip, new artisan brands of barbecue potato chips, but nine times out of 10, they’re bound to taste just as good or better. The spices are also good enough for me to crumble the chips for a darn good barbecue rub.

So, Grippo’s Bar-B-Que are my favorite chips, with Old Dutch Potato Chips out of Minnesota coming in at a close second. Oh, and then there’s Herr’s Horseradish Cheddar Chips and…

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 17:02:06 +0000

If you like Mike Sells its because you aren’t from cincinnati!

By: Allison

Allison — Sat, 29 May 2010 12:50:30 +0000

Husman’s Sweet & Sassy BBQ!!!!!!! They are the best chips…ever. I love them. Made it really hard to move to California from Cincinnati…almost.
Another one on the list of favorites is Jays Hot Stuff chips…we used to get those when we’d go on family vacations at the lake in Michigan…always brings back memories, besides the fact that they’re delicious!!! We’d eat them with a Cherry Coke…the ones in the teal and magenta colored cans…ahh, the 80s.

By: Tom Gray

Tom Gray — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:58:18 +0000

My Dad ran the Husman’s operation from the 50′s until 1980. I worked there in the summers of 1969 through 1974 (HS and college days).

Husman’s were the best chips because of the quality of potatoes and type of oil used, I think. Cottonseed oil makes the best chip flavor. And potatoes from the Red River Valley of North Dakota are the very best “chipping” potatoes available.

And Husman’s BBQ was also better than Grippo’s back then.

By: Davey D

Davey D — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:24:24 +0000

I live in NYC and I love Grippo’s BBQ – best and I miss them.

My question is this. My sister just sent me Grippo’s Gourmet Bar-B-Q SPICE. Like a steak rub or hamburger spice. Does anyone know about this and are there any grat uses out there?

By: Buzz

Buzz — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:17:28 +0000

My favorite is Shearers, from Brewster, Ohio — the red bag, not the black one. Crispy, a little toasty. You can find them at Meijer and a few Kroger’s. Shearers cheese curls are also the best I’ve ever had.

By: julie

julie — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:20:48 +0000

I just bought a bag of teardrop Grippo’s pretzels today– love the crispiness and saltiness.

By: Staggerwing

Staggerwing — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 19:30:45 +0000

Eira-The teardrop shaped pretzels are a Grippos item, and still available. Absolutely one of the best pretzels out there, although we only eat occasionally due to the heavy salt content. Oddly, it is not like any of the other pretzel products that Grippos sells. The butcher my mother patronized when I was young always had a clear plastic container of Grippos pretzel rods on the counter, near the cash register. Every purchase always included a couple freebies, making otherwise boring trips to the store tolerable.

Used to have a Charles Chip guy deliver to the house when I was a kid too, and the milkman left glass bottles in the metal box out front. Guess that makes me old.

Grippos BBQ are still my favorite, although the XHot variety, which you can find at UDF are killer too. The original are more of a soft crunch, with a thick coating of powered spices, while XHot are more of a kettle chip, that may have been spiced via some liquid concoction.

Got turned onto the Grandma Utz’s lard fried chips about 10 years back. We don’t go looking for them, but imbibe when we happen to be traveling in an area where available. Thankfully, that is not Cincinnati.

By: Eira

Eira — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:23:16 +0000

I’m a Cincinnati expat now living in New Orleans, so I have to say I’m glad to see Zapps already got a shout out. The salt and pepper are my favorite Zapps, but the Cajun Gator Taters (dill pickle chips!) are pretty awesome. The VooDoo chips are interesting, sort of like a grab bag of every spice in the world.

Never had a solid Nati brand of chips, but one of them made the most amazing teardrop pretzels that were coated in what seemed like rock salt. I think it may have been Mike-Sells.

By: CincyCapell

CincyCapell — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:01:22 +0000

If there is dip involved, it’s Hussman’s Wavy Chips for us.