06/16/2026
Teddys Tallow Chips is now officially 1 year old 🎉 and we have reached some exciting major milestones in our first year. After launching in a church kitchen and spending our first 6 months frying tallow cooked potato chips there 14 hours a day, we partnered with an amazing co-manufacturer who was able to replicate our original chip. We expanded to 8 SKU’s (4 flavors and 2 size options - the original 5 oz and a snack size 1.375 oz).
We won KeHE’s Golden Ticket and partnered with them, now distributing through 7 of their DC’s. Just this past week we won a coveted KeHE On Trend award in the Gather and Graze category. We also won the regional Naturally Rising competition and will be representing Wisconsin on the national stage in August at Newtopia Now in Denver.
We just launched in our first Albertsons banners- Kings and Balducci’s, and are excited for that opportunity. After a year, we are in about 4500 doors throughout the country, a feat that we wouldn’t have anticipated would happen.
We recently launched our tortilla chip line which are produced at the only A to Z vertically integrated tortilla chip operation in the country. They start as organic corn in a silo, then are nixtamalized. Nixtamalization is an ancient Meso American practice whereby corn is soaked in alkaline water with lime juice for 24 hours. This process ultimately makes the product more digestible, makes the vitamins more bioavailable, gives the chip a superior crunch as well as a more complex flavor profile. After nixtamalization, the “dough” is formed into fresh masa, then cut into tortilla chips and then fried. We take extra steps to ultimately produce a superior product in both taste and nutritional profile.
We have another exciting product in the works - more on that later but it checks a lot of good boxes - all organic ingredients, high in protein, made with grass fed, grass finished tallow, and, most importantly, tastes amazing.
We are doing our first of 3 Costco roadshows this week, and if these go well we will have the opportunity to launch at all Costco Midwest locations.
We just expanded our operations and now have a West Coast base in addition to our headquarters in Wisconsin.
A lot of changes in 1 year. Love that our team is cohesive, crazy hardworking, brave, not opposed to risk, willing to put all of our “chips” in (ha). We will see what year 2 holds - we are enjoying the journey!
