I’m on a Philly potato chip roll, apparently, following up on my entry last week about Chumpies. This week I found a bag of RAP SNACKS featuring Bell Biv DeVoe on the cover. The chip flavor? “Back at the Ranch”! Rap Snacks, like Chumpies before it, was started in Philadelphia. Created by James Lindsay in 1994 according to Wikipedia, the…
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Chumpies: The Original Philadelphia Potato Chip
I was browsing through some old things around the crib, and oh snap! — look what I found: A bag of Chumpies! Chumpies was a brand of potato chips started in Philadelphia in 1991. They were still around when I left Philadelphia in 2004 and you could pick them up in bodegas and the like. They were fairly common and…