Ballreich’s Awarded for Best Potato Chip and Potato Stick

Ballreich’s award winning potato chips and potato sticks.

Ballreich’s award winning potato chips and potato sticks.

八月 04, 2016

On July 16, 2016, the nation’s first Potato Chip Festival was held in Saratoga Springs, New York, the birthplace of potato chips. This event not only created history for the potato chip, but also for Ballreich’s Potato Chips and Snacks.

Ballreich’s Potato Chips and Snacks proudly announces the remarkable awards they received on that occasion:
 

  • Gold Medal for Best Plain Potato Chip for their Regular Marcelled Potato Chip
  • Gold Medal for Best Potato Stick for their Smokey Sweet Mesquite Potato Stick

Not only did they receive a gold medal for their Smokey Sweet Mesquite Potato Stick, it was also declared the Champion Best Potato Stick. This allows Ballreich’s Potato Chips and Snacks to claim that they offer the Best Potato Stick in the United States!

Haley Thomas, Sales & Marketing Director for Ballreich’s Potato Chips and Snacks:
 

“These awards are a great honor, as the competition was fierce. We competed against Lay’s, Utz, Wise, Jones', Bickel's, Mister Bee, Better Made, Herr’s and more!.”

“Making these awards even sweeter is the fact that the festival was held in a region of New York, outside our normal distribution area, where many judges and attendees enjoyed our potato chips and sticks for the first time!”

Category Champions and Gold Medal Winners

 
The Chip Festival

The Chip Festival

Gold Medals were awarded for the three highest scores - listed below - in each category based on judging results from Friday.

All Gold Medal winning chips were tasted on Saturday and a Champion awarded for the highest score in each category. PotatoPro has identified the Category Champions in Italics

Best Plain Chip:
 
  • Saratoga Chips, LLC. – Original with Himalayan Salt
  • Frito – Lay – Lay’s Classic
  • Ballreich Bros. – Marcelled Potato Chips

Best Kettle Chip:
 
  • The Great Lakes Potato Chip Co. – Original Flavor Kettle Chip
  • Utz Quality Foods – Good Health Avocado Oil Sea Salt
  • Herr Foods – Herr’s Regular Kettle

Best Potato Stick:
 
  • Utz Quality Foods – Utz Potato Stix
  • Ballreich Bros. – Smokey Sweet Mesquite Potato Stick
  • Better Made Snack Foods – Better Made Special Potato Sticks

Best Tortilla Chip:
 
  • Utz Quality Foods – Utz Tortilla’s Restaurant Style
  • The Great Lakes Potato Chip Co. – Tortilla Chips
  • Frito – Lay – Tostitos Scoops

Best Corn Based Chip (non-tortilla):
 
  • Wise Foods – Original Dipsy Doodle
  • Frito – Lay – Doritos Nacho Cheese
  • Wise Foods – Crunchy Cheese Doodle

Best Vegetable Chip (non potato or corn):
 
  • North Fork Potato Chip Co. – Sweet Potato Chip
  • Popcorners – Our Little Rebellion Bean Crisps Saucy Salsa
  • Herr Foods – Good Natured Selects Baked Vegetable Crisps

Best BBQ Flavored Chip:
 
  • Wise Foods – Wise Honey BBQ
  • Wise Foods – Wise Kettle Cooked BBQ
  • Frito – Lay – Lay’s Honey BBQ

Best Cream and/or Dairy Flavored Chip:
 
  • Utz Quality Foods – Utz Sour Cream and Onion
  • Bickel’s Snack Foods – Troyer Farms Sour Cream and Onion
  • Herr Foods – Herr’s Sour Cream and Onion

Best Spice and/or Salt Flavored Chip:
 
  • Better Made Snack Foods – Salt and Vinegar Potato Chip
  • Frito – Lay – Doritos Spicy Sweet Chili
  • Wise Foods – Wise Kettle Cracked Pepper

Best “Anything Goes” Chip:
 
  • Frito – Lay – Ruffles All Dressed
  • Jones Potato Chip Co. – Wavy Dill Potato Chips
  • Saratoga Chips, LLC. – Old Glories Red, White, and Blue
Source: The Chip Festival Chip Contest