March 26, 2020

Time To Load Up on Snacks!

While the inevitable 'stay at home' order is what led me to this topic, it's not the reason for my title's suggestion. I am not advocating for anyone to go out and start hoarding junk food. It's been an interesting week or so to say the least. During the day on Tuesday, I had heard that a stay home order was imminent for Durham(where my office is located), so I decided to stop at a random Food Lion on the way home from work the other night. As I was rushing around the mostly empty store, I came upon an end cap and saw a few Topps branded packages of Utz chips. I did a double take and pondered what I was seeing for a moment. I didn't remember hearing anything about a follow-up to last year's set. I honestly assumed that they had found a few of these tucked away in a corner of the store room and decided to put them on the floor since customers have been grabbing everything they can to load up their pantry. I figured I might as well grab one since there may be a time in the coming weeks where I don't mind chips that have been stored away for a year. The dates on these things are just the 'best if used by' variety, right? Anyway, I got home, unpacked the car, and put away the few items I bought. Much like I did last year, I openened the outer package and rummaged through the small bags of chips trying to find the pack of cards. When I pulled it out, I was shocked!



They weren't 2019 leftovers! They even have a unique design(which I like better than flagship)! I quickly ripped open the pack and flipped through the 3 cards(plus one coupon card like last year).



I really like these!


The backs are not very unique and the name above the card number is the only indication that these are from a co-branded set. It's interesting that they didn't include the Utz logo anywhere in this year's design. I, for one, am thrilled that there is a food issue set to chase for a second consecutive year! I'm also really disappointed that it's going to be more difficult to track down due to the current and/or pending quarantine orders. After my excitement wore off, I did a quick search on Twitter to see what I could find out about this year's promo. Turns out I completely missed posts by multiple sources that have been floating around for over a week. Now this is the kind of news I would have loved to see overflowing my timeline about a week ago. Had I known there was a current year chase, I definitely would have picked up a few more snack packs. If anyone is interested, a complete checklist is up on the Beckett website. What do you think about this design? Are you excited about another oddball set? I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments or over in the Twitterverse. Thanks for reading.

7 comments:

  1. These are neat! Haven’t seen them til you showed em.

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  2. Nice. I wish Utz was sold around these parts.

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  3. Saw these on Twitter, where they've gotten good reviews.

    Only you would stumble upon the brand new cards during a quarantine. I'm still trying to find LAST YEAR'S Utz potato chip bags with cards in them. They never showed up.

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  4. Haven't seen these yet and not sure if my area has those chips. Of course right now I am not heading to a store eitehr lol

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  5. I plucked a Vogelbach Utz card from Ebay early assuming they might be hard to track down with the pandemic. I also like this design more than the flagship version.

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  6. On my wife's orders I'm down to one grocery run per week, but I'll definitely look for these at the stores when I go.

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  7. I never managed to find any Utz cards last year. At least I was rewarded with plenty of potato chips as a consolation prize, so not the worst outcome.

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