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Hey Golato, you know an awful lot about this store. I'm confused. You said in your first post that you were not able to find the Tornado Fries store. Now you claim to have "insider" information about what goes on in the back room. Are you lying now, or were you lying then?

criticalone at 1:10AM on 08/07/09

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Chipstix was the shop in the arcade that I tried after Tornado Fries. It was NOT good. Looks like the post on July 19 from Golato was posted by the owner of the Chipstix shop. Lets look at this... It was posted just 34 minutes after the post by the obvious stor owner "Chipstix". Very unusual spelling of the owners first name. I bet 9 out of 10 people wouldn't guess that was how you spell it.

Couldn't find Tornado Fries? It's the big store with the huge sign right in the middle of the boardwalk. It's much easier to find the chipstix store in the corner of an arcade. Did you trip over the Holy Grail or Jimmy Hoffa's body on your way to the chipstix store?

Once again... The people working in the chipstix store are very ignorant. Especially the "Little Person" (I have nothing against "little people", but this guy takes the cake) who runs around like he owned the place.

C'mon buddy, promote your "little" store somewhere else.

criticalone at 6:50PM on 08/05/09

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Found their website. Looks like they are selling franchises.
http://www.tornadofries.com

criticalone at 6:57PM on 07/09/09

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I was down in Wildwood this weekend and saw this great new shop. I tried a sample and loved it. It was seasoned with their original seasoning. Then I came across another guy selling a similar product in an arcade. It was not nearly as good. And the people at the Tornado Fries stand were much friendlier and more professional.

criticalone at 11:13PM on 06/29/09

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Hey Golato, you know an awful lot about this store. I'm confused. You said in your first post that you were not able to find the Tornado Fries store. Now you claim to have "insider" information about what goes on in the back room. Are you lying now, or were you lying then?

criticalone at 1:10AM on 08/07/09

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The Tornado Potato Touches Down in the U.S.

Chipstix was the shop in the arcade that I tried after Tornado Fries. It was NOT good. Looks like the post on July 19 from Golato was posted by the owner of the Chipstix shop. Lets look at this... It was posted just 34 minutes after the post by the obvious stor owner "Chipstix". Very unusual spelling of the owners first name. I bet 9 out of 10 people wouldn't guess that was how you spell it.

Couldn't find Tornado Fries? It's the big store with the huge sign right in the middle of the boardwalk. It's much easier to find the chipstix store in the corner of an arcade. Did you trip over the Holy Grail or Jimmy Hoffa's body on your way to the chipstix store?

Once again... The people working in the chipstix store are very ignorant. Especially the "Little Person" (I have nothing against "little people", but this guy takes the cake) who runs around like he owned the place.

C'mon buddy, promote your "little" store somewhere else.

criticalone at 6:50PM on 08/05/09

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The Tornado Potato Touches Down in the U.S.

Found their website. Looks like they are selling franchises.
http://www.tornadofries.com

criticalone at 6:57PM on 07/09/09

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The Tornado Potato Touches Down in the U.S.

I was down in Wildwood this weekend and saw this great new shop. I tried a sample and loved it. It was seasoned with their original seasoning. Then I came across another guy selling a similar product in an arcade. It was not nearly as good. And the people at the Tornado Fries stand were much friendlier and more professional.

criticalone at 11:13PM on 06/29/09

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LOU are you kidding me, would we have this thread up on the website if I was still involved with Tornado, absolutely not. Just simply click on the link above and magically it takes you away from your site and too a small competitors site, I thought you and Richard were a little smarter than that.

Golato at 11:36PM on 08/05/09

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The Tornado Potato Touches Down in the U.S.

I guess the big store criticalone is referring to above is the same Tornado Fries store that doesn't have a sign because they didn't follow city zoning requirements, wheres that big sign you mentioned. Word has it they are also using an illegal fryer with no fire suppression system to make there horrible deep fryed candy bars, located in the back room. One other note, they may loose there Trademark status because of lack of enforcement by other companies, log onto patent trademark office website and read all about it.

Golato at 11:28PM on 08/05/09

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The original Korean product is called "Twist Potato". Their website is http://www.potatotwist.com.

ryu2121 at 5:02PM on 08/04/09

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Hello all, I was able to check out this snack but couldn't find tornado fries. I tried chipstix, it was across from Morey's Piers and they had a flavor called pizza and it was awesome. I also got a fresh squeezed lemonade that was to die for.

The girl working there was named Iryna and she said shes the owner. She was very nice and helpful. There was a NBC 10 news interview playing from Memorial Day weekend that featured the world famous chipstix.

Golato at 3:54PM on 07/19/09

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Tornado Fries accually came from a business started 9 years by Gary Barnes who now resides in the UK. He invented the original spiral cut potato blade and started a company called CHIPSTIX, a fried potato with a twist. It started in South Africa not Korea. The Tornado Fries company is trying to take credit for this creation but have merely copied and tried to brand themselves as The Original.

The true original is CHIPSTIX and yes you have seen them in Ocean City, NJ at the French Fry Factory. They are also located in North Wildwood at the famous Gateway 26 Arcade and in Wildwood at Lime Ricky Arcade. CHIPSTIX also offers there potent mixture of fresh squeezed lemonade.

CHIPSTIX at 3:20PM on 07/19/09

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you can buy an appliance at Walmat, called a Tater Twister, this has the attachment tha tallows you to make these. I have been eating them for years!

Busterbear at 2:52PM on 07/09/09

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these have been a fair favorite for a long time, in Idaho there is a guy who has an electric drill and a cheese slicer makes great ones youn dont even need the stick in the middle

ejf150 at 2:29PM on 07/09/09

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you can buy them at www.twistedchips.com

not so expensive!

chan76 at 11:09AM on 07/07/09

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I saw this at our local barbeque fair (Pork in the Park - Salisbury, MD) a couple of months ago. I'm shocked that they had something here in the boonies that you guys hadn't seen yet! I'm pretty sure it's just a bbq-circuit though, so they probably picked it up somewhere else...

tideandthyme at 11:20PM on 07/01/09

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