The Best Regional BBQ Potato Chips

We tasted 30 regional barbecue chips from across the United States to bring you our favorites.

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[jacquelinesexton]

You can't leave out the Grippos from the live taste test!!!! Those are the most unique ones!

[mariamyer]

3:31 I knew it was Middleswarth just from the description and the way the chips looked.

[familyarthurs]

Middleswarth is my favorite. I wouldn't have entered the kettle chip in the competition, but their wavy Barbeque is hands down the best. When the pandemic started, I stocked up on a dozen bags of them! I may run out of milk and eggs, but I had my Middleswarth Barbeque chips!

[snowrs]

I live in Evansville IN, and even though they are not local Grippos and a Ski are royalty here.

[Fatalroadie]

My all time favorite is Grippos. A co-worker turned me to them and I had to order them out from the company cause they werent in my area

[kylekarnes]

Grippos barbecue chips are amazing! Spicy and delicious! I love buying the seasoning and putting it on chicken.

[MetalDave]

Man grippos should have been on that line up, the way yall teased the bag lol

[VegasLilliehook]

I'm so pleased to see Gibbles up there. I don't think I've ever had their bbq flavor, but we grew up on their regular chips. They're thicker than something like lays and way less greasy. they have lots of bubbles on the chips and when we were little we'd pop the top of the bubble and dip it into our coke. sweet and salty heaven! <3 yay Gibbles, yay Pennsylvania! :)

[nowjustanother]

Great Lakes also makes a cherry bbq potato chip (it's a Traverse City, Michigan company, after all). They're delicious.

[manbob]

Born and raised in Pennsylvania Middlesworth is in my blood. Moved to Alaska in 2007 been eating both of these nice choice

[karenbrown]

Love, love, love exploring regionality in products! Even if we don’t get to those parts of the country, it’s so interesting! Who knew you could grow a special potato in Alaska!
Would be fun to focus on a region - taste and talk about its specialities. Great learning possibilities. Thanks for all you do.

[MrKINSM]

As a Cincinnati native, Grippo's all the way...and you can buy a tube of the spices and ship them anywhere.

[Broughton]

*Utz Crab Chips are my personal fave.*

[joshuaemerson]

So many great BBQ chips, but Grippo's (Cincinnati) are my favorite.

[DJL]

Snyder Of Berlin Original Bar-B-Q Flavored Chips are the absolute best if you like a classic lacy style chip.

[dookiepost]

BetterMade BBQ chips are my personal favorite

[Poodlehere]

Nothing beats GRIPPOS BBQ chips and as another commenter stated the seasoning blend is great on chicken or even ribs as a dry rub

[francinecorry]

Zapps New Orleans kettle chips are amazing.

[Xavier]

When we moved to Michigan we tried Great Lakes and they are pretty good. But if Bridget doesn’t like sweet ones she should stay away from their Michigan Cherry BBQ flavor lol but I find them to be fantastic! 😋

[mdleweight]

American Airlines served Deep River regular chips on their flights. They were my favorite of all time.