El-Ge/Eagle/Frito-Lay Plant on Gillespie Drive
When I started researching York County potato chips, I didn't realize how much I would find, and I'm still only scratching the surface. I haven't even gotten to my favorite yet, Utz. Previous posts covered Bon-Ton/Bickel's and Senft's.
Fellow blogger Jim McClure did address Martin's the other day. The other current York County chip makers, like Hanover Brands' Bickel's and Frito-Lay, have their fans, but most people I know are passionate about their Utz's or Martin's. Workplaces and families are divided into two camps by these chips, and rarely will you find someone who loves, or even tolerates, them both. (For all you fellow Utz fans that bemoaned along with me that you could only find Martin's at York's Central Market, I was excited today to find that a new pizza stand, Popi Joe's, on the Clark Avenue side of the market sells Utz's chips at a very reasonable price.)
This post concerns another York County brand of the past, El-Ge, and where they were and where they went.
