Upcycled kettle chips — est. 2017

Ugly is the whole point.

Kettle chips cooked from the potatoes the grocery store turned away — the lumpy, the freckled, the beautifully misshapen. Same farm. Same crunch. Zero waste.

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No. 001
“The Reject”
Russet · hand-cut · kettle-cooked
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26% of America's produce is thrown out for being too ugly to sell. We think that's the most delicious number in the aisle.

Every bag starts with a potato nobody else wanted

One potato's
second chance.

The journey from rejected to rescued, in five acts

01 / 05
Uglies
Act I — Grown

A little too honest.

A perfectly good potato grows up a little too lumpy, a little too small, a little too freckled. Same soil, same sunshine as the pretty ones.

Act II — Rejected

Not pretty enough.

The supermarket says no. Cosmetics only. It's sorted onto the reject pile, bound for the landfill with six billion pounds of produce a year.

Act III — Rescued

We buy it anyway.

Straight from the same farmers, at a fair price. What the market called a flaw, we call the whole business model.

Act IV — Kettle-cooked

Ugly meets the fryer.

Small batches, hard fry, hand-flipped. Ugly on the outside, a ludicrous, blistered crunch on the inside.

Act V — Bagged

A clean conscience.

Sea salt to hot honey. Ten flavors, zero waste, and a share of every bag going to feed hungry kids.Live tally · 32,000,000 lbs rescued

The Collection

10 flavors · view all →
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Pounds of potatoes
rescued since 2017
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Of produce trashed for
looks — that we save
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Flavors of proof that
ugly tastes better

A snack that does the right thing three times before you finish the bag.

01 — Farmers

Pay for the crop the market won't.

We put money back in growers' pockets for potatoes that would otherwise be a total loss.

02 — Waste

Keep good food out of the landfill.

Every bag is an ugly potato rescued — and a small dent in the 26% of produce America throws away.

03 — Giving back

Feed kids who need it.

A share of every bag funds childhood-hunger relief. Crunch now, good later.

Get a little
ugly.

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