I tried 11 different plain potato chips — Lay's, Kettle, Wise, Late July, Good Health, Cape Cod, Great Value, 365 and more — and one was clearly the best of the bunch.

Along the way, Wise potato chips got into the act. Wise, which started in Berwick in 1921 when a grocer decided to fry up his excess potatoes before they went bad and grew into a potato chip ...