Pringles - Crisps or not?

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Just read this article...

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/When-is-a-crisp-not.4259138.jp

Apparently Pringles aren't crisps according to a High Court case. Could've fooled me, as I've always thought of them as crisps even if they're always the same shape and come in a tube rather than a packet.

P&G, which sells more than £500 million worth of Pringles every year, pointed out that, unlike potato crisps, their product had a regular shape "not found in nature" as well as a uniform colouring and texture and a "mouth-melt" taste.

The firm said crisps did not contain non-potato flours like Pringles do, and were not normally packaged in tubes.

It insisted that its customers did not regard Pringles as potato crisps.
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Anyone else think like me that they're really crisps after all?
 
After seeing the YouTube videos of how flammable they are, I don't eat them any more. Food should not burn for that long.
 
1. They have less than 50% of potato content

2. They start out life as dough


Pringles != Crisps
 
Never thought of them as crisps.. more of a snack made from potato product. Far from being a crisp though.

Used to like them and cant stand them now.. taste too artifical for my liking.
 
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'Crisps or not' is an oversimplification.

The VAT act states that a qualifying product "must be wholly, or substantially wholly, made from the potato".

Pringles are <50% potato, so it's really a fairly open and shut issue.
 
Not crisps. They don't taste like crisps, they don't really even look like crisps, and they don't have the texture of crisps.

More like a savoury snack.
 
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