[5 year old bump] Does anybody remember O'Ryan's Potato Chips? - Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community

Hack&Lube · 02-01-2007, 10:58 AM

Man, that stuff was good as gold but it seemed to disappear around 1995 after stupid Lays took over all the Hostess stuff.

The O'Ryan's Sour Cream and Onion was the best chip I've ever had. They were sliced incredibly thick and rippled and had an increible amount of seasoning due to the thickness of the chip and the ridges. So crunchy and so good.

Why did they stop making these??? I've craved them every day for over 10 years!

Looger · 02-01-2007, 11:03 AM

those were good but no thunder crunch.

Mr. Ski · 02-01-2007, 11:06 AM

Yep, I used to buy them all the time at school. $0.60 for 80g of tasty goodness!

Agamemnon · 02-01-2007, 11:11 AM

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Originally Posted by fotze

Did they have Sour cream and Bacon too?

Yes they did, and THAT was the best chip/chip flavour of all time... came in a yellow bag if I recall.

JiriHrdina · 02-01-2007, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by Looger

those were good but no thunder crunch.

Oh man. Tundercrunch was soooo tasty. The Parmesenia or whatever it was called. Drooool

Looger · 02-01-2007, 11:15 AM

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Oh man. Tundercrunch was soooo tasty. The Parmesenia or whatever it was called. Drooool

no kidding - screw the electric car, i want a film made that explains where they went!

troutman · 02-01-2007, 11:30 AM

In the 1970s, Hostess experimented with grape, and orange flavored potato chips. No lie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_Chips

Hostess is forever infamous for the brief and much-lamented mid-1970's introduction of Orange, Grape, and Cherry flavoured potato chips

Looger · 02-01-2007, 11:33 AM

i remember hostess' pizza flavour in the early 80s.

might explain why there's an ancient little dresser in my folks' basement with judas priest and billy idol stickers!

those pizza chips SUCKED, but they had new flavours all the time.

looooob · 02-01-2007, 11:34 AM

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Originally Posted by troutman

In the 1970s, Hostess experimented with grape, and orange flavored potato chips. No lie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostess_Chips

Hostess is forever infamous for the brief and much-lamented mid-1970's introduction of Orange, Grape, and Cherry flavoured potato chips

I'll remember Hostess for their essentially transparent chip bags where you can easily read whether you had won a 'free bag' of chips before buying it or not...one bag of chips would lead to 35 free bags of the same

Sidney Crosby's Hat · 02-01-2007, 11:35 AM

I remember O'Ryans well. Their sour cream and onion was my second favourite chip behind Old Dutch Mexican Chili.

kipperfan · 02-01-2007, 11:41 AM

Yep O'Ryan sour cream and onion were amazing....they used to sell them at the Dome. I remember that cleary as I used to get a bag every game.

RedHot25 · 02-01-2007, 11:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

behind Old Dutch Mexican Chili.

Mmmm, now those were some good chips!

Stranger · 02-01-2007, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

I remember O'Ryans well. Their sour cream and onion was my second favourite chip behind Old Dutch Mexican Chili.

Now I want some Mexican Chili Chips.

I was just going to mention Old Dutch Mexican Chili. Hands down still the best chips ever. I don't know what happened to them. One day they were here next day they're gone. They've got some out that are close to them but still not the same. We should start a letter writing campain to bring back these classic flavours.

JiriHrdina · 02-01-2007, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Looger

i remember hostess' pizza flavour in the early 80s.

might explain why there's an ancient little dresser in my folks' basement with judas priest and billy idol stickers!

those pizza chips SUCKED, but they had new flavours all the time.

Worst Hostess chip I ever had was "Cheeseburger".

Ew.

@theCBE · 02-01-2007, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat

Old Dutch Mexican Chili.

I dont' remember O'ryans but I sure has hell remember old dutch mexican chilli.. those were some amazing chips.

Saw someone eating some chips yesterday that were 'prawn cocktail' flavoured.. my stomach did a flip just reading the bag

North East Goon · 02-01-2007, 11:53 AM

O'Ryans are packaged under the Ruffles label now. They have cut back on the Sour Creamy powder however.

Frank the Tank · 02-01-2007, 12:12 PM

What about Miss Vickies? Do you guys have those out west? Damn those are some fine tater chips.

Reaper · 02-01-2007, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by North East Goon

O'Ryans are packaged under the Ruffles label now. They have cut back on the Sour Creamy powder however.

Incorrect. O'Ryans were the Hostess version of Ruffles which were unavailable in Canada at the time. When Frito Lay acquired Hostess there was no need to have a knock off of their own product so they simply discontinued O'Ryans as a brand and introduced Ruffles to the Canadian marketplace.

Burninator · 02-01-2007, 12:18 PM

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Originally Posted by fotze

Did they have Sour cream and Bacon too?

Worst. Flavour. Ever.

I acutally don't mind the Roast Chicken flavour chips.

Frank we have Miss Vickies out here. Sour Cream and Sweet chili FTW.

MolsonInBothHands · 02-01-2007, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by looooob

I'll remember Hostess for their essentially transparent chip bags where you can easily read whether you had won a 'free bag' of chips before buying it or not...one bag of chips would lead to 35 free bags of the same

I must have eaten 100 bags of Ketchup chips that summer. Not having to pay for chips meant extra change to buy those Styrofoam Biplanes at the Red Rooster! Ahhh the good ol' days.