"Good Guy Pringles: The only chip company that doesn't sell air"

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 01:07:33

Pringles are not technically chips

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 01:10:10

Also people keep calling brands "companies", which I suppose is a testament to how successful consumer packaged goods giants are at being invisible

Princess Alice · 2015-03-31 01:15:01

Miss Utilis said:
Also people keep calling brands "companies", which I suppose is a testament to how successful consumer packaged goods giants are at being invisible

That always seemed to be a pet peeve of yours

Calica · 2015-03-31 01:15:13

product is sold by weight, not volume. some settling of product may occur during shipping

glennmagusharvey · 2015-03-31 01:36:22

Miss Utilis said:
Pringles are not technically chips

how so

Calica · 2015-03-31 01:37:50

they're not manufactured in the same way that chips are, so they can't legally be called chips

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 01:38:55

Calica said:
they're not manufactured in the same way that chips are, so they can't legally be called chips

they only have 42% potato content

this is why they're "Potato Crisps" and not chips

glennmagusharvey · 2015-03-31 01:39:14

oh

can they be legally called potato crisps?

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 01:39:59

In America they can, but in the UK, at last check, they're potato snacks

glennmagusharvey · 2015-03-31 01:40:55

In July 2008 in the London High Court,
P&G lawyers successfully argued that Pringles were not crisps (even
though labelled "Potato Crisps" on the container) as the potato content
was only 42% and their shape, P&G stated, "is not found in nature".
This ruling, against a United Kingdom VAT
and Duties Tribunal decision to the contrary, exempted Pringles from
the then 17.5% VAT for potato crisps and potato-derived snacks.^[14] In May 2009, the Court of Appeal reversed the earlier decision. A spokesman for P&G stated it had been paying the VAT proactively and owed no back taxes.^[20]^[21]

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 01:43:29

(in case this needs to be said, Procter & Gamble no longer makes Pringles; they sold the product line to the Kellogg Company in 2012)

Mordecai · 2015-03-31 04:16:49

Terminology is everything, I guess.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 06:38:22

what about the arguably superior Lays' Stax?

Obā-san · 2015-03-31 06:39:52

what about eating actual chips that taste good and arent reformatted mashed potatoes

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 06:40:00

they lack Julius Pringles

Obā-san · 2015-03-31 06:40:23

#passiveaggressivesnackfoodpreferences

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 06:42:02

naney said:
what about eating actual chips that taste good and arent reformatted mashed potatoes

as someone who deeply loves and respects potato chips, there is no difference between a sufficiently thin actual potato chip and a Pringles-style potato crisp.

You have to get really good potato chips to notice the difference.

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 06:42:27

naney said:
what about eating actual chips that taste good and arent reformatted mashed potatoes

JULIUS PRINGLES AND HIS BOWTIE INTENSIFY

Obā-san · 2015-03-31 06:43:16

julius pringles can go suck my dingle

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 06:43:35

I will be honest with you, before your sudden obsession with them, I did not actually know that Pringles Guy had a name.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 06:44:27

there is a difference between even average potato chips and Munchos though.

Munchos are strange.

Obā-san · 2015-03-31 06:45:41

Planet Jane said:

naney said:
what about eating actual chips that taste good and arent reformatted mashed potatoes
as someone who deeply loves and respects potato chips, there is no difference between a sufficiently thin actual potato chip and a Pringles-style potato crisp.

no

that's just not true at all

that is a comestible falsehood

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 06:45:44

Planet Jane said:
I will be honest with you, before your sudden obsession with them, I did not actually know that Pringles Guy had a name.

This isn't sudden, Pringles have actually been an irregular obsession of mine since I was very young

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 06:47:07

naney said:

Planet Jane said:

naney said:
what about eating actual chips that taste good and arent reformatted mashed potatoes
as someone who deeply loves and respects potato chips, there is no difference between a sufficiently thin actual potato chip and a Pringles-style potato crisp.
no

that's just not true at all

that is a comestible falsehood

show me the functional difference between plain Lays and a plain Pringle.

You can tell them apart but which would you rather have? It doesn't matter, they are the same thing in different shape and thickness.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 06:49:11

Planet Jane said:
I will be honest with you, before your sudden obsession with them, I did not actually know that Pringles Guy had a name.

This isn't sudden, Pringles have actually been an irregular obsession of mine since I was very young

I don't honestly know what there is to obsess over.

Don't get me wrong Pringles is a consistent snack food. They also occasionally roll out new flavors which are actually good instead of just novel (see: Mexican Dip, which seems to have disappeared). Which I can't say is true for like, most potato chip companies.

Nobody wanted "loaded hot wings" chips, Ruffles.

NOBODY

Obā-san · 2015-03-31 06:50:57

they have completely different mouthfeel

Calica · 2015-03-31 06:52:18

the functional difference is that pringles you can do the duck thing with

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 06:53:25

You can obsess over everything ABOUT Pringles! The logo. The can. The fun-to-say name. The bizarreness of the fact that Coke didn't swoop in and buy it when they had the chance to do so in 2011 (though P&G tried to dump it into a joint venture with Coke that would have also included their much less appealing product Sunny Delight along with Coke's own Minute Maid and Five-Alive products)

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 06:53:55

I mean, PepsiCo owns Frito-Lay. Surely Coke would have gotten just a TAD jealous?

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 06:54:55

Miss Utilis said:
You can obsess over everything ABOUT Pringles! The logo. The can. The fun-to-say name. The bizarreness of the fact that Coke didn't swoop in and buy it when they had the chance to do so in 2011 (though P&G tried to dump it into a joint venture with Coke that would have also included their much less appealing product Sunny Delight along with Coke's own Minute Maid and Five-Alive products)

*hands you an entire tub of Calm Balm*

Calica · 2015-03-31 06:55:59

remember that miss utilis here really likes thinking about #brands

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 06:57:04

Planet Jane said:

Miss Utilis said:
You can obsess over everything ABOUT Pringles! The logo. The can. The fun-to-say name. The bizarreness of the fact that Coke didn't swoop in and buy it when they had the chance to do so in 2011 (though P&G tried to dump it into a joint venture with Coke that would have also included their much less appealing product Sunny Delight along with Coke's own Minute Maid and Five-Alive products)
*hands you an entire tub of Calm Balm*

I don't need Calm Balm

Calica · 2015-03-31 06:57:36

now i'm thinking of those sunny delight commercials

UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE SUN

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 06:57:51

Calm Balm is a property of the Calm Corporation.

The Calm Corporation, we put you to sleep!

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 07:02:52

Calica said:
now i'm thinking of those sunny delight commercials

UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE SUN

sunny delight is disgusting shit and I'm glad they don't seem to sell it around here anymore

or maybe they do

Bee · 2015-03-31 07:03:52

Planet Jane said:
I will be honest with you, before your sudden obsession with them, I did not actually know that Pringles Guy had a name.

Obā-san · 2015-03-31 07:04:41

Miss Utilis said:

Calica said:
now i'm thinking of those sunny delight commercials

UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE SUN
sunny delight is disgusting shit and I'm glad they don't seem to sell it around here anymore

or maybe they do

you say this but you eat pringles

Calica · 2015-03-31 07:05:05

i remember liking sunny d as a kid

i don't know if i'd like it now

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 07:09:03

naney said:

Miss Utilis said:

Calica said:
now i'm thinking of those sunny delight commercials

UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE SUN
sunny delight is disgusting shit and I'm glad they don't seem to sell it around here anymore

or maybe they do
you say this but you eat pringles

And bugs don't talk, Zorak, so welcome to the asylum!

Calica · 2015-03-31 07:11:47

is sunny d even still sold

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 07:13:15

I don't understand Sunny D.

half the selling point of orange juice is that it's good for you

so why have Sunny D, which is just orange juice that isn't good for you?

I don't get it.

Like Minute-Maid Orange Juice tastes the same and is less teeth-rottingly sugary.

naney said:

Miss Utilis said:

Calica said:
now i'm thinking of those sunny delight commercials

UNLEASH THE POWER OF THE SUN
sunny delight is disgusting shit and I'm glad they don't seem to sell it around here anymore

or maybe they do
you say this but you eat pringles

what would you know about chips, cats are carnivores

Obā-san · 2015-03-31 07:16:55

Calica · 2015-03-31 07:18:37

According to a BBC News report, the negative publicity escalated when a Sunny Delight television ad showing a snowman turn orange was released at about the same time as reports of a girl who had turned orange – due to the UK product's use of beta-Carotene for colour – after drinking too much Sunny Delight.

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 07:19:03

>says we don't know shit about potato chips

>when asked to provide evidence that they consume potato chips, produces a picture showing them with a potato skins bag on their head

>mfw

Calica · 2015-03-31 07:20:20

you know what potato chips are really good? kettle chips

Calica · 2015-03-31 07:20:38

suck on that motherfuckers

MissUtilis · 2015-03-31 07:23:17

Calica said:
you know what potato chips are really good? kettle chips

I've contemplated buying the company that makes those

Salix Babylonika · 2015-03-31 07:37:04

Miss Utilis said:

Calica said:
you know what potato chips are really good? kettle chips
I've contemplated buying the company that makes those

Utilis, kettle cooked chips are like, a kind of potato chip, not a branded product.

Anyone can make kettle-cooked chips.

Even you.

Obā-san · 2015-03-31 07:38:51

there is apparently a Kettle brand chip company but i had never heard of that until now, presumably that is what anonus was thinking of

Calica · 2015-03-31 07:39:07

there is also a branded product called kettle chips, which is a particular brand of kettle-cooked chip

Calica · 2015-03-31 07:39:14

i was referring, of course, to both

"Good Guy Pringles: The only chip company that doesn't sell air"

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