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Ballreich Bros 
Address: 186 Ohio Avenue, Tiffin, Ohio 44883-0186
Phone: 419 447 1814
Website: www.ballreich.com
Email: chips@ballreich.com

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Ballreich's

Fred and Ethel Ballreich opened their potato chips  manufacturing business in Tiffin Ohio, in 1920.The operation used a copper kettle heated with wood scraps. It was an all day process that produced just 14 pounds of potato chips. Ballreich's chose to call their potato chips "marcelled", which means "wavy", from the popular hairstyle of the period.
The quality of Ballreich's Potato Chips created a huge demand that could not be me so Fred's brother Carl came back to his home-town to form the joint Tiffin foods venture of Ballreich Brother's Potato Chips. 
Just a few short years later, a small factory was built behind their homes. Local farmers deliver 100 pound bags of potatoes to Carl & Emma's basement for storage. 
After World War II, further family members joined the chips manufacturing business, and the company expanded to a larger facility in the same location. Sacking machines were added to help chip production reach 450 pounds a day.
A new warehouse was built in Defiance, Ohio to better service that area. Ballreich's first automatic slicer, salter, hopper filler, and first automatic kettle were installed. Liquid shortening was introduced replacing the current solid form.
During the 1960's, a variety of other potato chip manufacturing facilities and equipment was added to further aid the company's growth. During the 1980's, a semi auto-loading dock was built. A new sacking machine was installed. 
Many new data innovations were brought on board in the 21st century including new software programs, handheld computers for sales representatives, in house graphic design, an IT department, growth in the sales & marketing departments and much more! Ballreich's also expanded its area of delivery to Mansfield, Ohio.


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Ballreich's Marcelled Bar-B-Q Potato Chips
The aroma when opening the bag was a quite stinging barbecue smell, but that belied the flavour, which was strong and consistent. They did seem to lack oomph, possibly because of the mix with the soybean oil. It wasn't a regular barbecue taste, which I found interesting in its originality.   
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Ballreich's Marcelled Salt & Vinegar 
You can taste the salt and the vinegar, with neither overwhelming the other particularly. However, the oily taste undermined an otherwise ordinary version of the flavour.   
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Ballreich's Marcelled Smokey Sweet
​Mesquite Potato Chips 

Of all the Ballreich's chips I have tested these are my favourite so far. The Bar-B-Q flavour probably missed the spot, but the sweet and sticky mesquite aroma when the bag was opened was matched by the flavour as these chips were bitten into.
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Ballreich's Marcelled Sour Cream & Onion 
There was a mild onion smell when I opened the bag. The taste also hinted at a mild onion, which worked well. It was a pleasant, if not particularly striking flavour. There were also a little oily.   
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Ballreich's Marcelled Potato Chips 
It almost felt like being transported to the past to try how chips used to taste. The balance between potato starch, salt and oil was developed in 1929 ​and it is hard to believe anything much has changed to the original recipe since. If this is the case, they should proudly claim so on their bags.   
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