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…
Philadelphia’s Cue Records Closes Its Doors After 10 Years of Service
It’s a sad day for me, honestly. After 10 amazing years of providing unbelievable service and music in Philadelphia, Cue Records is closing its doors. Cue Records, located right off of Philly’s renown South Street on 4th, was not just a record shop with everything from hiphop, to dance to soul and funk (and even hardware and rentals!), but it…