Utz still sells products under the Golden Flake brand, but they are no longer made in Birmingham.
The Golden Flake factory in Birmingham made its final potato chip last month, ending a historic run as one of Alabama’s favorite snack foods made in the state.If you’re a regular buyer of Golden Flake chips, it might be you.
If you see a bag of Golden Flake chips on the shelf at a supermarket that has that Oct. 16 expiration date, it was bagged from the last batch of potato chips that will ever be made at the Golden Flake factory in Birmingham, Clemmons said. “It’s possible that the last ones have been eaten by somebody, and they didn’t even know it,” said Julie McLaughlin, who was director of marketing for Golden Flake from 1987-2014.
People took pride in the fact that Golden Flake chips had been made in Birmingham for more than a century. “Now they’re making them up in Pennsylvania,” she said. The school tours already ended a few years ago, after Utz Quality Foods, based in Hanover, Penn., purchased Golden Enterprises, Golden Flake’s parent company, in 2016 for $141 million.“We had people come up from Montgomery, Anniston and Tuscaloosa,” McLaughlin said. “It wasn’t just the Birmingham schools.
Paul “Bear” Bryant, who became Alabama’s coach in 1958 and died in 1983, did every show with a bowl of Golden Flake potato chips on the set.
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