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You can still get Charles Chips!

Yes, and I have bought a couple of tins at Cracker Barrel. I also saw them at Fresh Market.

Several differences: the chips are no longer made by the same company. Nothing wrong with the current product, but the original Charles sourced the potatoes from Idaho, and one year there was a bad crop. The potato chips came out small, green, and expensive. That got a lot of customers to cancel their potato chip delivery.

Now, the tins have a sealed bag of chips inside. In the post-Tylenol era that is a necessity, but takes away some of the charm of opening up a metal tin, and sticking in your hand for some chips. The tin itself is now superfluous.

Finally, Charles' Chips used to have a boatload of flavors. Not just regular, rippled and barbeque, but Garlic, Hickory smoked, Sour Cream and Onion, Salt-Free, and other neat-o flavors I have forgotten. Don't forget the 5 pound party tins of both chips and pretzels (after the route ended, my mother secretly used left-over pretzel crumbs stored in a garbage bag for chicken breading for about 10 years without telling anyone!) , and the cookies were also delicious.