Jones' Potato Chips 
Address: 823 Bowman Street, Mansfield, Ohio 44903
Phone: 419 529 9424
Website: www.joneschips.com
Email: [email protected]
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Jones' Potato Chips

Frederick W Jones, founder of Jones Potato Chip Company, began his career as a distributor. He sold a variety of products such as margarine, soup mixes, cookies, pickles, nuts, pretzels, and potato chips. In the early 1940's, Frederick was unable to get potato chips from his usual source. The Jones Potato Chip Company was quickly born.
As was common among potato chip manufacturers of the day, Frederick cooked his potato chips by hand in a kettle. The kettle cooked chips were lifted out of the hot oil in a basket and spread out on a counter to cool and be salted. 
In order to increase production, pieces of automated equipment were added to the process to handle larger volumes of potato chips. By the 1960's everything from peeling potatoes, slicing, frying, salting, and packaging were done by machine, as it is today.
The Jones Potato Chip Company is truly a family organization. Over the years, Frederick, his wife Elaine, and all six of their children have worked in the business. Currently, there are twelve family members working for the company in some capacity. Frederick and Elaine retired in 1986.
In the early 1980's the company started expanding it's territory into new cities and towns around Ohio. The company has continued to develop it's mail order business, sending potato chips throughout the United States, and to military people around the world. 
In January of 1996, the Jones Potato Chip Company purchased the Thomasson's Potato Chip Company. Thomasson's was another family owned potato chip company located in Elyria, Ohio.
Jones' Potato Chips Wavy Salt & Vinegar 
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a hint of vinegar, which is usual for this variety. Salt and vinegar flavour was invented in the UK in the 1950s - It was just the second flavoured potato chip after cheese and onion. The British achieved the aim of mixing the seasoning of their national dish, fish, and chips, and it was all about balance. Unfortunately, many chips manufacturers over egg the vinegar, as it were. Jones' are no different. Although there was a hint of salty potato, I found the vinegar a little tart and overwhelming. This was a shame because they were particularly moreish and the bag did not last too long.   
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Jones' Potato Chips Wavy Original Chips 
These chips were particularly high in saturated fat and also included trans fats, which most manufacturers have done away with. A Nose Plunge Test revealed a pleasantly warm and potatoey aroma. The taste could arguably be described as oily and unsalted because the dominance here was very much greasy potato. It was, however, a nice, warm, comforting chip, but for me at least, they needed a fancy sandwich to give them some real flavour and purpose.   
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