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Bachman, Bob's Texas Style, Boulder Canyon, Dirty, Golden Flake, Husman's, Kitchen Cooked, Nathan's, Poore Brothers, Snikiddy, Snyder of Berlin, Tato Skins, TGI Fridays, Tims Cascade Snacks, Tortiyahs!, Utz, Zapp's Address: 900 High Street, Hanover, Pennsylvania 17331, USA Phone: 717 637 6644 Website: www.utzsnacks.com, www.husman's.com, www.kitchencooked.net, www.snyderofberlin.com, www.timschips.com Email: Contact Form Husman'sThe Husman Potato Products Company was founded in 1919 by 24 year old Harry Husman.
Since it began, the company has had five different snack manufacturing plants. Husman's started out at 414 Laurel Street, where Harry had a pulley out of a second floor window that would be tied to a bag of potatoes on one end and his car bumper on the other. As the business grew, harry moved to a 2,500 square foot plant on Lincoln Avenue. the third plant doubled the companies work area in size. The final plant at 1621 Moore Street, was originally 30,000 square feet, but further expansion saw the plant grow to 70,000 square feet. The company's first automatic Potato Chip fryer was installed in 1937 - this made a major alteration to business practices - up until that time 50 pounds of Chips were fried an hour in Kettles. The increase in production instantly took it to 800 pounds an hour. In 1949 Husman installed packaging machines. By the late 1950s a second fryer was added and there were four packaging lines. At around this time Frank Herschede bought the company and in 1967 the company name was changed to the present Husman's Snack Foods Company. In 1990, the company was purchased by the Birds Eye Foods Corporation. In December of 2009, Husman's became part of Pinnacle Foods Group LLC. As part of the Group's "Brands You Know. Brands You Love." Husman's is now part of the Utz group. Husman's Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips
Both Cheddar and sour cream are mild flavours. So, these had every right to be inoffensive and bland. They were. Still nice, and the overall description would probably be creamy cheesy, but nothing memorable. It seems quite remarkable that such a lengthy list of ingredients, powders, and chemicals, went in to make them. (11)
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Husman's Bar-B-Q Potato Chips
These chips seemed a little salty at first. The barbecue flavouring did kick in to over-ride it, and they remained sweet barbecue for the remainder of the bag. They were not hot at all, which would disappoint some, but they were nevertheless an enjoyable barbecue variety. (11) Husman's Honey Bar-B-Q Potato Chips
These chips were sweet. By inference, an unsuspecting customer could not question the likelihood of the sweetness being honey. However, these seemed somewhat more syrupy than barbecue. A good balance between a pair of flavours is either a bounce between the two partners, or a comfortable blend. These were nice tasting chips but certainly leaned more towards tangy salt and sweet. (11) Husman's Original Potato Chips
There seemed to be no more than light seasoning on these regular tasting chips. A nice, fluffy potato taste, but very little to recommend them over any chip deliberately made without flavour. Unless you have a sandwich that just needs some company. (9) Husman's Wavy Potato Chips
A plain chip is a plain chip. There was a solid balance between salt and potato, but in reality, these will not make the majority of chips fans sit up and say, “Hey, we must get us some plain and regular, Wavy Husman's.” Another of those perfectly adequate chips varieties that run alongside a funky sandwich without noticing them. (11) Husman's Wavy Sour Cream & Onion
A creamy, balanced onion flavour was a little bit of a surprise after a Nose Plunge Test, which revealed a very mild onion aroma. They were a little salty and creamy, but the onion powder shone through via the ridges most convincingly. They were enjoyable but they may have been helped on their way by the unnecessary monosodium glutamate, which I will rightly, or wrongly, blame for making me thirsty. (12) |
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3rd July 2014
Back in the day, Harry Husman made potato chips in his Laurel Street home after hoisting sacks of spuds to his second-floor kitchen by attaching a rope to the bumper of his car.
Today, Husman’s chips are mechanically cleaned, peeled, sliced, blown dry and fried to a uniform golden crispness in two to three minutes. Some 43 million potatoes a year are turned into chips shipped to stores from Dayton and Springfield, Ohio, to Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky. Now, Cincinnati-based Husman’s Snack Foods Co. is celebrating with new store displays and giveaways – marking 95 years of satisfying generations of loyal snackers.
Read More HERE
Back in the day, Harry Husman made potato chips in his Laurel Street home after hoisting sacks of spuds to his second-floor kitchen by attaching a rope to the bumper of his car.
Today, Husman’s chips are mechanically cleaned, peeled, sliced, blown dry and fried to a uniform golden crispness in two to three minutes. Some 43 million potatoes a year are turned into chips shipped to stores from Dayton and Springfield, Ohio, to Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky. Now, Cincinnati-based Husman’s Snack Foods Co. is celebrating with new store displays and giveaways – marking 95 years of satisfying generations of loyal snackers.
Read More HERE
