Potato chips the way they used to be

Press, 19 August 1982, Page 22

Potato chips the way they used to be

Three new lines arrived on retail shelves and another changed its name during the last few weeks.

If you remember potato chips the way they were then you will recognise the latest in the range of Smiths Potato Crisps. Renown Services has produced a flat-cut potato chip similar to the first chips made in London after World War I.

The plain flavoured flat chips are available in 200 g and 50g packets and will sell at the same prices as other Smiths lines -35 c for the smaller packet and $1.15 for the 200 g pack. Packaged in a distinctive red, white, and blue packet the potato chips are being marketed under the name, “Toast of the Empire." The first carton-packed fruit juice produced in the South Island has gone on sale. The drink, selling under the name, “Citrus Tree,” was released in Christchurch at the beginning of this month by Metropolitan Milk Treatment, Ltd. Its shelf life is about six weeks and the four flavours

- orange, grapefruit, mango and orange and pineapple — are available in three different sized packs. A two-litre carton will sell at $2.36, a 500 ml pack at 82c and the 250 ml carton for 51c.

Maggi has begun marketing a new-flavour satchet of herbs and spices in five varieties for use in meat dishes. The “Cook-in-the-Pot" range is added to the meat before cooking to bring added flavour to the dish. The satchets sell at 71c each for three different beef, one chicken, and one lamb flavourings. Users of Reward deqdorant will have noticed that there has been a change in the product’s label. The name Reward appears in small lettering above the word Rexona in bold print. The manufacturers of Reward products. Levers, N.Z., Ltd, have decided to swap the Reward label for the brand name Rexona, used worldwide by Unilever. The word Reward will be retained until consumers become used to the name of the replacement product.