Old Dutch
Humpty Dumpty, Old Dutch
Address: 100 Bentall Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba R2X 2Y5, Canada
Phone: 204 632 0249
Website: www.olddutchfoods.ca
Email: [email protected]

Old Dutch

Old Dutch Products Co. began life in 1934. They originated in St. Paul, Minnesota, but moved to Minneapolis three years later. In 1968, they moved for a final time to date, to Roseville, Minnesota. 
However, while Old Dutch is an American company, their success story truly began in Canada began when they opened a  Canadian arm called Old Dutch Snack Foods, as a distribution center in Winnipeg in 1954, where they would maintain their head offices.  In 1958 the first Chips Production Plant was opened on Sargent Avenue. 
However, the Canadian company information does not mention the US parent company, so they are obviously keen to maintain their status as one of Canada’s major snack food companies independently. The benefits of a national success story company are obvious. The American arm of the company also keeps itself to itself and it too, overlooks the Canadian part of its operation. It doesn't even mention the Canadian Windmill.
In 1970 a second Plant was opened in Calgary. Further expansion continued through the 1970s. By 1980 a Tortilla specific Plant was opened in Condillo. Production facilities at all the Plants was expanded throughout the 1980s. 
In 2006 Old Dutch purchased Humpty Dumpty, a major rival in their field. 
This is the official Old Dutch Snack Foods Ltd.’s account of this history:
“Ask anyone in Western Canada if they remember eating Old Dutch chips when they were little. They all remember—the Old Dutch windmill, the great-tasting chips and dips, the colorful characters on the bags, the Old Dutch taste they enjoyed growing up.
“It all started in Winnipeg in 1954—most Winnipeggers didn’t even realize that the Old Dutch brand was their own. But the taste, quality, and identity made such an impression, that Old Dutch chips and snacks were an instant hit.
​“Today, six decades later, our windmill is now a sought out fixture on store shelves all across Canada. ​
"A brand to trust, a product to enjoy - Old Dutch continues to lead the snack industry in product innovation and integrity.
“Although we started as a little Canadian chip company, Old Dutch has become a strong leader in taste, quality, innovation and industry standards. Our windmill stands for a great snacking tradition, and a commitment to better snack products.”
The two companies do have separate lines of snacks for each market, as well as those that are sold in both countries. Humpty Dumpty Potato Chips are, as far as we are aware, still sold in the US, but only the non-Potato Chips snacks of the Humpty Dumpty line are sold in Canada.
"A brand to trust, a product to enjoy - Old Dutch continues to lead the snack industry in product innovation and integrity.
“Although we started as a little Canadian chip company, Old Dutch has become a strong leader in taste, quality, innovation and industry standards. Our windmill stands for a great snacking tradition, and a commitment to better snack products.”
The two companies do have separate lines of snacks for each market, as well as those that are sold in both countries. Humpty Dumpty Potato Chips are, as far as we are aware, still sold in the US, but only the non-Potato Chips snacks of the Humpty Dumpty line are sold in Canada.

Old Dutch Dill Pickle Potato Chips 
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a dill pickle aroma. Nothing more, nothing less. The flavour was also interesting. There were some very strong and perfectly representative dill pickle chips in there, but these were a little mild. That is not a criticism. Instead, what I had here was a salty potato backed up by a towering dill pickle behind it. A bit like the little guy taking his big brother to a fight. As they are potato chips this seemed even more appropriate than completely dill flavoured chips.   
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Old Dutch Original Potato Chips
As regular readers of Chips & Crisps reviews will be aware, we do not particularly enjoy Chips that taste of oil, salt and potato with no flavors to make them interesting. They are however the most popular flavor in the world so we often bite the bullet and try a flavor-free Original, Regular, Salted, even Salt Free Chips, just to add to our reviews. What heroes we are! As far as these go, they taste of oil, salt and potato. They had a sort of warming flavor that we understand people find enjoyable, especially as a sandwich side-kick. As for comparisons with peers, these stood up pretty well.
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Old Dutch Smokey BBQ Rip-L Potato Chips 
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a sweet beefy, barbecue aroma. The reason cooks and chefs insist upon salt to season their recipes is because it is nature's finest flavour enhancer. Old Dutch use this philosophy with their chips. There is a higher than average sodium quantity to many of their varieties and these were no different. It certainly did its job though. The chips were sweet and slightly spicy. The mild meaty barbecue flavouring was warm and enjoyable. There was even a slightly spicy after-kick.   
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Old Dutch Creamy Dill Rip-L Potato Chips
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a smell of Pickled Dill Weed. The taste was of Pickled Dill Weed. It was a strong flavor and there was an undercurrent of sweet and salty potato. A very rounded flavor.
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Old Dutch All Dressed Potato Chips 
If you are wondering, ‘All Dressed’ is a Canadian adjective to describe a full garnished hamburger, hot dog, pizza, etc. There may have been a hint of slightly sweet ketchup backing up the taste, but as with the description, it was a veritable mixture of flavours, with ‘spicy’ as the most resonant. So, sweet and spicy, perhaps. If I were to put it in a category on the shelves it would sit just to the right of the barbecue varieties.   
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Old Dutch BBQ Potato Chips 
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a familiar smoky barbecue sort of aroma. It was a little on the mild side but then so was the taste. It may be because of the copious sodium content, but while mild and unremarkable, the flavours shone through. There was a potatoey sweet tomato, with a sticky peppery paprika undercurrent. It was a little like eating something you know is bad for you but can't help reaching for more.   
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Old Dutch Cheddar & Sour Cream Chips 
A Nose Plunge Test revealed very little of the secrets inside. In other words, there wasn't any sort of bouquet. As with many chips that feature sour cream as an ingredient, the potato became creamy and mildly salty. This mixed with a pleasant but mild cheese. The flavour did not bounce from one of the ingredient partners to the other. Neither did it combine to make an interesting new taste. It was just mild, creamy cheese.   
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Old Dutch Crispy Bacon Potato Chips 
Bacon generally features two parts: Meat and fat. The idea of adding fat (the crispy part) to oily potato chips may put some people off this variety. It is not, however, my job to judge. I will just review the flavour as described on the bag. A Nose Plunge Test provided a cooked bacon aroma. The taste also delivered a perfectly acceptable bacon taste. I am not sufficiently experienced in bacon testing to say whether it tasted like Canadian bacon, but there was a bacon flavouring, which was clever because the word is not mentioned on the ingredients list at all.   
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Old Dutch Ketchup Potato Chips 
Unless you are Belgian, the most appropriate flavour addition to French fries is generally ketchup. This variety is always, therefore, an interesting experience. Before continuing, however, it should be mentioned that the other ingredient invariably added to the potato chip's bigger and fatter dinner accompanying relative, is salt. And boy, did these have some salt. In just fifty grams (27 Chips), there was a whopping seven hundred and ten grams of sodium – Thirty percent of an adult's suggested maximum daily intake. This is among the highest I have come across after hundreds of reviews. Anyway, although that is a gentle reminder, it is not for me to judge, I am just interested in whether it tastes like it says it does on the bag. A Nose Plunge Test revealed a strong tomato aroma. The flavour was slightly sweet, but mostly tomato. Huh, a lot like ketchup.   
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Old Dutch Au Gratin Rip-L Potato Chips 
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a clear cheese aroma. There were no other flavours apparent apart from salt, just cheese. The mixture of the mildly salty and oily potato with the cheese made them very munchable, but a little mundane. This was a great shame because these were a classic case of so near but so far chips.   
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Old Dutch Sour Cream 'n Onion Chips 
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a mild onion aroma. This was followed up by a dominating onion taste. This may sound a little contradictory here, but while I am a stickler for a fair and even balance of ingredient partners in most combos, when one of the partners is sour cream it is not so important. Mixed with oily potato, sour cream is a flavour enhancer, or backdrop, rather than a main contributory factor in the flavouring. This was the case with these chips. The sour cream provided a creamy background under-flavour to the salty potato. The over-riding taste was mild onion, which was pleasant.   
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Old Dutch Salt 'n Vinegar Potato Chips
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a strong Vinegar smell. This was followed by a similar taste. Considering these Chips had a whopping 620g of sodium in the small bag it was surprising that they tasted so strongly of Vinegar. Whatever style of Chip, if it is Salt & Vinegar flavor it needs to strike a fair and even balance between the two partners in the combo. We found these a little bit more vinegary than salty, but as it was a relatively mild flavor it wasn't too over-powering.
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Old Dutch Sour Cream 'n Onion Chips
A Nose Plunge Test revealed a mild Onion aroma. This was followed up by a dominating Onion flavor. This may sound a little contradictory here, but while we are sticklers for a fair and even balance of flavor partners in most combos, when one of the partners is Sour Cream it is not so important. Mixed with the oily potato, Sour Cream is a flavor enhancer rather than a main contributory factor in the flavor. This was the case with these Chips. The Sour Cream provided a creamy background under-flavor with the salty potato. The over-riding flavor was mild Onion, which was pleasant.
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Old Dutch Humpty Dumpty Rings
(Rondelles) Sour Cream & Onion
First things first. Just one puffy crispy extruded snack created powdery havoc with a shirt and fingers. A few more, and it was carnage. The flavour was solid and respectable. There was undoubtedly creamy goodness added to a well-balanced Onion.
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