Guys Snack Foods is a snack foods manufacturer and distributor based in

Overland Park, Kansas Overland Park ( ) is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in Johnson County, Kansas, it is one of four principal cities in the Kansas City metropolitan area and the most populous suburb of Kansas City, Missouri. As ...

, with its target market being the Midwest. It claims to have been the first company to sell barbecue-flavored

potato chips A potato chip (North American English; often just chip) or crisp (British and Irish English) is a thin slice of potato that has been either deep fried, baked, or air fried until crunchy. They are commonly served as a snack, side dish, or ap ...

. The company's biggest product line is its potato chips, but it also offers

cheese puff Cheese puffs, cheese curls, cheese balls, cheese ball puffs, cheesy puffs, or corn curls are a puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders. They are manufactured by extruding heated corn dough through a die ...

tortilla chips A tortilla chip is a snack food made from corn tortillas, which are cut into triangles and then fried or baked (alternatively they may be discs pressed out of corn masa then fried or baked). Corn tortillas are made of nixtamalized corn, veget ...

and pretzels. The company was founded by Guy and Frances Caldwell in 1938 as "Guy's Nut and Candy Company", so named because it sold

roasted peanuts The peanut (''Arachis hypogaea''), also known as the groundnut, goober (US), pindar (US) or monkey nut (UK), is a legume crop grown mainly for its edible Seed, seeds. It is widely grown in the tropics and subtropics, important to both small ...

throughout the Kansas City area. At one time the company had 1,000 employees in its Liberty, Missouri plant. It was sold to

Borden Food Corporation Borden, Inc., was an American producer of food and beverage products, consumer products, and industrial products. At one time, the company was the largest U.S. producer of dairy and pasta products. Its food division, Borden Foods, was based in ...

in 1979. Borden sold it in 1994. It went into bankruptcy in 2001. It has since emerged from bankruptcy and is now based in Kansas.

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guys-snacks.com
Brand name potato chips and crisps Snack food manufacturers of the United States Companies based in Overland Park, Kansas 1938 establishments in Kansas American companies established in 1938 Food and drink companies established in 1938 {{Food-company-stub