Exhibit 99.1

        J & J Snack Foods to Acquire Country Home Bakers, Inc.

    PENNSAUKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 22, 2003--J & J Snack
Foods Corp. (NASDAQ:JJSF) announced today that an agreement to acquire
the bakery assets of Country Home Bakers, Inc. has been approved by
the United States Bankruptcy Court and that closing of the purchase is
scheduled for January 5, 2004.
    Country Home Bakers, Inc., with its manufacturing facility in
Atlanta, GA, manufactures and distributes bakery products to the food
service and supermarket industries. Its product line includes cookies,
biscuits, and frozen doughs sold under the names READI-BAKE, COUNTRY
HOME and private labels sold through supermarket in-store bakeries.
Total sales are estimated to be approximately $55 million.
    Gerald B. Shreiber, J & J's President and Chief Executive Officer,
commented, "We are excited with the opportunity before us. Country
Home Bakers has excellent products and a good nucleus of people. We
look forward to making the 'new' Country Home Bakers company a
successful one."
    J & J Snack Foods Corp.'s principal products include SUPERPRETZEL,
PRETZEL FILLERS and other soft pretzels, ICEE and ARCTIC BLAST frozen
beverages, LUIGI'S, MAMA TISH'S, SHAPE UPS, MINUTE MAID(1) and
BARQ'S(2) and CHILL frozen juice bars and ices, TIO PEPE'S churros,
THE FUNNEL CAKE FACTORY funnel cakes, and MRS. GOODCOOKIE and CAMDEN
CREEK cookies. J & J has manufacturing facilities in Pennsauken,
Bridgeport and Bellmawr, New Jersey; Scranton and Hatfield,
Pennsylvania; Carrollton, Texas and Vernon (Los Angeles), California.

    (1)MINUTE MAID is a registered trademark of The Coca-Cola Company.

    (2)BARQ'S is a registered trademark of Barq's Inc.


    CONTACT: J & J Snack Foods Corp.
             Dennis Moore, 856-665-9533