  Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 130 Registered: 07-2005 |
I was in an IGA supermarket in my neighborhood today in San Diego. This store specializes in Mexican food products. As I was passing the snack food section, I saw a familiar yellow package. I had to do a double take! It was a whole rack of Better Made Chips, many different varieties and sizes! I was ecstatic, shocked, and amazed. I bought a large quantity. I have lived in San Diego for over thirty years and had never seen Better Made on sale here before. I always had to wait for my semi-annual trip back to Michigan. Once, I even ordered them online. The woman at the check out counter did not know anything about them. The manager was not around. Is Better Made going national? Or, did some distributor just happen to have a batch that was sold to this store? Does anyone know the answer to this mystery? | ||
Fareastsider Member Username: Fareastsider Post Number: 826 Registered: 08-2006 |
I have seen Faygo in Georgia | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 1921 Registered: 07-2004 |
Here's my pet theory: Enough people have finally left Detroit that it's being asked for everywhere. The diaspora is complete.  | ||
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall Post Number: 608 Registered: 05-2004 |
Hey we got a mayor we're trying to get rid of too. | ||
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn Post Number: 113 Registered: 02-2005 |
Now, we just need Saunder's fudge in New Mexico... | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2699 Registered: 04-2006 |
They sell Faygo at the K Mart in Midtown Manhattan. | ||
Jiminnm Member Username: Jiminnm Post Number: 1600 Registered: 02-2005 |
Here you go Evelyn: http://www.sanderscandy.com/ | ||
Rooms222 Member Username: Rooms222 Post Number: 89 Registered: 04-2005 |
Often times items like chips are sold in geographic markets or distribution channels where they are not known as essentially a generic or private label chip even though it they use the packaging of the brand. Places like Big Lots and Dollar Tree have all different kinds of chips, but none with any consistency. In Detroit, National Wholesale Liquidators has UTZ Chips at low prices. Utz is a chip with many devotees and a website from PA. I even ordered Crab Chips from them for my daughter's school when she was "star of the week" because she loves them. Crab chips have no crab, but have Old Bay-type seasoning on them, kind of like a BBQ with no tomato or sweetness. So, buy them up now as they may not restock. | ||
Sfds Member Username: Sfds Post Number: 9 Registered: 02-2007 |
Jokerman, I'll keep my eyes peeled out here for Better Made. BevMo a great beverage store out here in SoCal carries 16 oz glass bottled Faygo in Orange, Red Pop, Rock and Rye, Red Raspberry, and sometimes Root Beer. They also carry glass bottles of Vernor's diet and regular. They carry a wide variety of "hometown pops". | ||
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni Post Number: 946 Registered: 05-2007 |
Better Made Chips here in San Diego! Nice revelation Jokerman. Have never graced the threshold of an IGA outside of Michigan. That will be corrected very soon in search of the rare Better Made Chips. Ralphs, Henri's, Vons and a new Trader Joe's receive 95+% of our grocery budget. Sometimes, just sometimes, a helpful and not-dis-interested store employee will be willing to check the computerized inventory by telephone before you make a trip to a particular store. | ||
Gsgeorge Member Username: Gsgeorge Post Number: 581 Registered: 08-2006 |
I was shocked to see Vernors in glass bottles in a specialty mart in Los Angeles --- and then a week later I saw canned Vernors in an IGA. | ||
56packman Member Username: 56packman Post Number: 2059 Registered: 12-2005 |
ACO hardware stores carry Sanders Fudge. It's really good if you heat it up. | ||
Toog05 Member Username: Toog05 Post Number: 182 Registered: 03-2006 |
Yea I was about to say that you can find Sanders Fudge everywhere | ||
Ramcharger Member Username: Ramcharger Post Number: 523 Registered: 05-2006 |
I once found Stroh's beer on sale by the case in Hong Kong. | ||
Lifeinmontage Member Username: Lifeinmontage Post Number: 60 Registered: 10-2007 |
"They sell Faygo at the K Mart in Midtown Manhattan." At which location, Herald Square? I've only been to the Astor Place K-Mart and haven't seen any. A trip uptown would definitely be worth it. . . | ||
Xd_brklyn Member Username: Xd_brklyn Post Number: 363 Registered: 10-2003 |
If anyone spots Better Made chips in the New York area, please let me know. Thanks | ||
Dabirch Member Username: Dabirch Post Number: 2518 Registered: 06-2004 |
Both Vernors and Faygo are sold at my local Ralph's in SoCal. The funny thing is that they are in glass bottles and priced similar to Dr. Brown's -- i.e. as a regional premium beverage. | ||
Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 131 Registered: 07-2005 |
Vetalalumni:The store is near the corner of Cardiff and Jamacha Rd. in southeast corner of San Diego (near Spring Valley). Hurry, before I buy them out! | ||
Iheartthed Member Username: Iheartthed Post Number: 2705 Registered: 04-2006 |
quote: Yeah, that is the Midtown K Mart. At Penn Station... | ||
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn Post Number: 118 Registered: 02-2005 |
I wish it worked both ways... I'd like to be able to get (good) green chili in Michigan. Has anyone seen BetterMade in northern California? | ||
Ahartz Member Username: Ahartz Post Number: 17 Registered: 04-2007 |
I see that in this months Maximm magazine Penn Gellette (sp) is reviewing the best 10 chips in the USA. Better Made......#1. Nothing beats the BBQ...no other BBQ chip even comes close. I am glad to see them branching out a bit with new flavors...and...Cotton Candy??...andy | ||
Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 132 Registered: 07-2005 |
The manager of the IGA in San Diego told me that they will continue to order Better Made products. I told him to expect a lot of Detroiters in his store. | ||
Vetalalumni Member Username: Vetalalumni Post Number: 949 Registered: 05-2007 |
Awesome Jokerman! I will add that particular IGA to our list of shopping destinations. | ||
Ocmobilexec Member Username: Ocmobilexec Post Number: 17 Registered: 12-2007 |
I buy Vernors Ginger Ale all the time here at my local Orange County, CA grocery store... So glad I can get it out here! | ||
Otter Member Username: Otter Post Number: 17 Registered: 12-2007 |
Fareastsider, Where in Georgia did you see Faygo? I grew up in Atlanta and had never heard of it until I moved to Detroit. | ||
Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 133 Registered: 07-2005 |
I just ate a bag of BBQ. Penn Gillette is right. I forgot how good they are. | ||
Rocket_city Member Username: Rocket_city Post Number: 621 Registered: 04-2006 |
QUOTE: "I have seen Faygo in Georgia" I've seen the entire state of Michigan living in Atlanta. No surprise there. ;) j/k--just 1/2 kidding... | ||
Jokerman Member Username: Jokerman Post Number: 134 Registered: 07-2005 |
The IGA in San Diego (Lisbon and Cardiff, near Spring Valley) still has a large rack of Better Made chips, all varieties. This is the only place I have ever seen them in California. When I first found them I bought about ten bags in case it was a one shot deal. Yesterday, I just bought one bag of Hot BBQ (delicious!) and one regular since it looks like they will continue to carry them. | ||
Detmi7mile Member Username: Detmi7mile Post Number: 36 Registered: 12-2007 |
I've seen faygo down here in VA (hampton roads)...it's always funny arguing with my friends from the northeast and south as they call everything "soda" as opposed to "pop" | ||
Rijobo Member Username: Rijobo Post Number: 25 Registered: 11-2003 |
I bought a bag of Uncle Ray's salt & vinegar chips in southern Georgia or northern Florida a couple weeks back | ||
Vantanna Member Username: Vantanna Post Number: 7 Registered: 08-2007 |
I will look for Faygo & Better Made Sweet BBQ in Atlanta... | ||
Sittodistributors_sd Member Username: Sittodistributors_sd Post Number: 1 Registered: 03-2008 |
This is in response to Jokerman. There is an independent distributor of better made potato chips in california. I know because I work there. We deliver to all and any city in san diego county. And our main product that we offer is better made (the owner is from Michigan). We are currently working on our website which is sittodistributorinc.com. | ||
Sittodistributors_sd Member Username: Sittodistributors_sd Post Number: 2 Registered: 03-2008 |
This is in response to Jokerman again. If you want I can give you a list of stores to which we sell our products to in any areas that you visit or are located. This way you don't have to go out of your way to the one store which you found our product at. | ||
3rdworldcity Member Username: 3rdworldcity Post Number: 1078 Registered: 01-2005 |
About five years ago I was backpacking on Chichikoff Island in Alaska. It's about 7 million acres 6 hours by boat from Juneau. There are maybe 400 people on the island, most in the town of Pelican. Pelican has 200 people tops and it's located on Lisianski Inlet, off the Pacific. It's "downtown" is about 2 short blocks long and built on stilts, so the tide comes in right up to the boardwalk/sidewalk. It's a fishing village, with a small fish processing plant. There is one bar in town, on the boardwalk. There was a "Stroh's" sign over the entrance. We walked in, sat at the bar, and of course ordered a hamburger and a Stroh's. The bartender said "What's a Stroh's." I thought he was joking but said "beer. There's a Stroh's sign over the door." He said "Hell, I've never heard of the stuff. I've been here (many) years, and figured that must have been the name of the original owner." So, we ordered local beer and paid for our $9.50 hamburgers and went back to the wilderness. (They didn't have Better Made chips either.) | ||
Malcovemagnesia Member Username: Malcovemagnesia Post Number: 71 Registered: 12-2005 |
I've found glass bottled (priced as a premium beverage for money'd yuppies) Faygo & Vernors in a Chinese grocery store a couple blocks away from where I live in San Francisco. And the Cala (store chain affiliated somewhat with Krogers) grocery store one block away from where I live sells Vernors in *cans*. | ||
Malcovemagnesia Member Username: Malcovemagnesia Post Number: 72 Registered: 12-2005 |
Just noticed SittoDistributors (welcome to the forum, b.t.w.). Does the "SD" in your name imply San Diego? Do you distribute Better Made up in Northern California? :-) |
