Your Favorite Dipping Sauce Is Now A Chip Flavor

Utz is clearly on a mission to trailblaze. Either that, or it knows the power of gentle novelty. Take your pick. Over the last few years, the snack brand has been playing fast and loose with its new flavors: Last year, it released Lemonade Chips (which we tried and enjoyed), and they were such a hit that it brought them back this year for another spin. Around that, it found the time to drop new Agave Sriracha-flavored chips in its Boulder Canyon line, and new Crab Chips, available at Costco. Our verdict? Well, it would have to be a 10/10. 

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All of these flavors managed to balance newness with not being too out there, pretty successfully. Now, Utz is at it again, with three new snacks. Let’s discuss.

Utz Fall Snacks

Yesterday, Utz announced its new trio of fall snacks, one of which is a collaboration with a name we’ve seen many, many times before this year. We’ll get to that one in a sec – but first, the other two…

Chicken Dipping Sauce Flavored Potato Chips

Fans of Raising Cane’s dipping sauce assemble, because this one’s for you. Utz Ripples Chicken Dipping Sauce Potato Chips aim to capture the flavor of the tangy, smoky sauce that comes with your chicken tenders (both at Cane’s and at plenty of other chicken chains), and it’s a permanent addition to Utz’s snack line. As such, Chicken Dipping Sauce chips will likely be the most widely available of its three new flavors – you can find it now at stores like Walmart, Publix, and online. 

Cheddar Bacon Ranch Flavored Cheese Balls

Here, Utz transforms arguably its best-known snack and amps it up for fall 2026. There’s cheese, yes, but there are also savory, smoky bacon notes and a touch of extra creaminess (and we’d imagine a little herbal hit) from the ranch. These will be available in 2.5-ounce bags at convenience stores like CVZ, Circle K, and Quik Trip, as well as online. 

Spicy Pickle Bites

And now, to the collaboration…any guesses? Which pickle producer might see fit to work with every brand under the sun? Why, it’s Grillo’s, of course! Hot on the heels of the pickle brand’s collabs with Firehook Crackers, PBR, and plenty of other fellow players comes its creation of Spicy Pickle Bites with Utz (it’s actually a continuation of a long-standing relationship – Utz and Grillo’s have worked together since 2022). This corn-based snack combines dill, garlic, and vinegar flavors into one bite, and it’ll be available at convenience retailers like 7-Eleven, Circle K, Wawa, and Sheetz. And – yes! – online too. 

Nice stuff here from Utz, I feel! Nothing too wacky and out-there, but still left-field enough to offer something new. I’m into it. Get ’em now!