We buy and enjoy Walkers oven baked 50% less fat, sea salted. Yes they are different, that is why I like them. I don't like all the fat in the other brands.

Bluejay wrote: I live in NW Indiana.

Is this problem the same where you are?

(I put this in the over 80 group because younger people have no idea what "real" food used to taste like.)

I guess maybe I shouldn't be answering as I'm not in this age bracket, but I *am* NW In and remember Peerless and Katie's, both gone now. Closest I have found is UTZ, but I have to order online and it's pricey.

Hoosier Gal said: I guess maybe I shouldn't be answering as I'm not in this age bracket, but I *am* NW In and remember Peerless and Katie's, both gone now. Closest I have found is UTZ, but I have to order online and it's pricey.[/quote]

Hi Hoosier Gal... I am NW IN too, you can find Utz chips at the Strack & VanTil stores. I buy them there! They are pretty close to what Peerless was.

bjean1963 wrote: Hoosier Gal said: I guess maybe I shouldn't be answering as I'm not in this age bracket, but I *am* NW In and remember Peerless and Katie's, both gone now. Closest I have found is UTZ, but I have to order online and it's pricey.

Hi Hoosier Gal... I am NW IN too, you can find Utz chips at the Strack & VanTil stores. I buy them there! They are pretty close to what Peerless was.[/quote]

Three of us from 'da region on Buzz. Who knew?

I'll check Stracks. Thanks for the info!

"Utz chips are available at Strack & VanTil stores. There are a lot of brands of salted pretzels on their shelves also. Utz and regular Lays are the best chips in my opinion. I have not noticed any change in the quality of either of these 2 brands. "

Now that's strange. We go to Strack's quite often but never ever noticed that brand. I guess those must be buried somewhere in the 500 different varieties of pretzels, chips or bloated pieces of some kind of corn puff or other stuff.

This change in potato chips happened over a period of a month or a bit more. One brand after another changed on us. A brand would be fine for a while, then the changed chips started appearing. We'd buy a few bags of the good brand only to find some of the bags had the newer junk stuff in them. After another bit of time, no matter what brand we bought it had been turned into the newer bad ones.

Anyway, we'll try Utz, but one review my wife found on the brand was that they were not as salty as other brands. That's bad for me if true. Companies already have ruined brands of pretzels by using "less" - Read: almost no - salt. I luv salt! Potato chips or pretzels with "low salt" are an abomination as far as I'm concerned.

I'm sure what is really behind this change is the almighty $$$. The new chip must be cheaper for the companies to manufacture.

Potato chips are not the only product in which I have noticed such a change in quality. I think what is really driving these changes in so many products is that companies today collude to the point where the consumer has no choice. I have noticed many, many products being ruined this way.

Well, I like conversating, but I guess that's enuf bit***ng, whining and moaning for now. : o)

Hoosier Gal wrote:

Bluejay wrote: I live in NW Indiana.

Is this problem the same where you are?

(I put this in the over 80 group because younger people have no idea what "real" food used to taste like.)

I guess maybe I shouldn't be answering as I'm not in this age bracket, but I *am* NW In and remember Peerless and Katie's, both gone now. Closest I have found is UTZ, but I have to order online and it's pricey.

It's nice when anyone replies to a post. Most people do not really communicate. The post an opinion to the group, not to an individual. A "People" forum is supposed to be *personal*. But then what does a doddering 88 year-old know 'bout the modern ways of things. (Excuse me now while go back in my corner and slobber more drool all over my bib.)

Bluejay wrote:

Hoosier Gal wrote:

Bluejay wrote: I live in NW Indiana.

Is this problem the same where you are?

(I put this in the over 80 group because younger people have no idea what "real" food used to taste like.)

I guess maybe I shouldn't be answering as I'm not in this age bracket, but I *am* NW In and remember Peerless and Katie's, both gone now. Closest I have found is UTZ, but I have to order online and it's pricey.

It's nice when anyone replies to a post. Most people do not really communicate. The post an opinion to the group, not to an individual. A "People" forum is supposed to be *personal*. But then what does a doddering 88 year-old know 'bout the modern ways of things. (Excuse me now while go back in my corner and slobber more drool all over my bib.)

Lol! Love your humor! That so reminds me of a thing with my dad years ago. He was 92 and in the hospital and the nurses wouldn’t talk to him directly, but to whoever was in the room with him. He put a sign up over his bed. “I’m old. Not senile.” Lol. He was a hoot. I’m in the under 80 category - but couldn’t resist responding to a fellow regioner. (Is that even a word????).

I post poems here and sometimes the silence is deafening. ……

I do agree about the chips thing though. I miss peerless. Especially their BBQ. Ah well ….

Hoosier Gal wrote:

Bluejay wrote:

Hoosier Gal wrote:

Bluejay wrote: I live in NW Indiana.

Lol! Love your humor! That so reminds me of a thing with my dad years ago. He was 92 and in the hospital and the nurses wouldn’t talk to him directly, but to whoever was in the room with him. He put a sign up over his bed. “I’m old. Not senile.” Lol. He was a hoot. I’m in the under 80 category - but couldn’t resist responding to a fellow regioner. (Is that even a word????).

I post poems here and sometimes the silence is deafening. ……

I do agree about the chips thing though. I miss peerless. Especially their BBQ. Ah well ….

Re: your daddy and nurses in hospitals -

Good Lordy! I've had the same problem with those nurses. Because I'm an oldie it's OBVIOUS that I must be senile and need being pushed and pulled around on a table or bed and NEVER be talked to or treated like a sentient human being.

I would think from my present demeanor in these groups you can pretty well tell what my response was.

Well, despite you're being a YouTube poster-to, I'll keep blabbing along with you. For some reason, I've run outta co-babblers : o(

YouTube is so phony in so many ways. Scripted nonsense pretending to be as-it's-happening stuff, plus showing a total disregard for animals in many ways, plus self-narrated stuff by some who should have their vocal chords removed - sans anesthesia.

Poetry? You're still young enuf to remember there are such things as rhyme and meter? And you're wasting your remaining years of meaningful, rational thought among the likes of the doddering vacuous in this group? You're daddy may have been a hoot, but he wouldn't be hooting about this.

Hell, these days with the present crowd, you could post the great poets of yore and the silence would be deafening....

Well, things could be worse. I forgot all about potato chips for a while - but the mouth was still drooling a bit, so I guess things aren't all bad.

Now - what the hell we're we talking 'bout before you brought up all this other stuff...?

Jeesh! How did I screw up the quote machine so bad?

I'm going to have to do it my own simple way any more. I totally forgot the Kiss Principle:

Keep It Simple, Stupid!

Gawd!

(Ooops. I really shouldn't be using his name in vain anymore. He seems to still be p.o.'d with me from the last time. <sigh>)

Bluejay wrote:

Hoosier Gal wrote:

Bluejay wrote:

Hoosier Gal wrote:

Bluejay wrote: I live in NW Indiana.

Lol! Love your humor! That so reminds me of a thing with my dad years ago. He was 92 and in the hospital and the nurses wouldn’t talk to him directly, but to whoever was in the room with him. He put a sign up over his bed. “I’m old. Not senile.” Lol. He was a hoot. I’m in the under 80 category - but couldn’t resist responding to a fellow regioner. (Is that even a word????).

I post poems here and sometimes the silence is deafening. ……

I do agree about the chips thing though. I miss peerless. Especially their BBQ. Ah well ….

Re: your daddy and nurses in hospitals -

Good Lordy! I've had the same problem with those nurses. Because I'm an oldie it's OBVIOUS that I must be senile and need being pushed and pulled around on a table or bed and NEVER be talked to or treated like a sentient human being.

I would think from my present demeanor in these groups you can pretty well tell what my response was.

Well, despite you're being a YouTube poster-to, I'll keep blabbing along with you. For some reason, I've run outta co-babblers : o(

YouTube is so phony in so many ways. Scripted nonsense pretending to be as-it's-happening stuff, plus showing a total disregard for animals in many ways, plus self-narrated stuff by some who should have their vocal chords removed - sans anesthesia.

Poetry? You're still young enuf to remember there are such things as rhyme and meter? And you're wasting your remaining years of meaningful, rational thought among the likes of the doddering vacuous in this group? You're daddy may have been a hoot, but he wouldn't be hooting about this.

Hell, these days with the present crowd, you could post the great poets of yore and the silence would be deafening....

Well, things could be worse. I forgot all about potato chips for a while - but the mouth was still drooling a bit, so I guess things aren't all bad.

Now - what the hell we're we talking 'bout before you brought up all this other stuff...?

Pickles?