🥔Not Quite a Chip: The Existential Crisis of Pringles...

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Pringles, 42% Potato. 100% Mystery. A Snack So Processed Even the Trinity Was Less Complicated.

By: Crispin Tater & Staxxon L. Layz, WTF Snack Bureau Chiefs

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The Snack That Dared to Lie

They’re stacked, seductive, and scream “once you pop, the truth might drop.”

Welcome to the story of Pringles—the snack formerly known as “not technically a chip.”

Because in the deepest corridors of food court theology and international tax courts, this crispy icon has a dark secret:

Pringles are made of regret, glue, and only 42% potato.

Yes, that’s right. 

That perfectly uniform “chip” in your mouth was never really sliced from a spud. It was extruded, pasted, and curve-molded like a junk food Picasso sculpture designed by Skynet.

And in 2025, under the unapologetically processed presidency of Donald J. Trump, it's time to ask:

Are Pringles a snack? 

A conspiracy? 

A Vatican relic? 

Or just edible lies in a tennis ball can?

Let’s deep fry this mystery.

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THE ORIGIN: WHEN CHIPS GOT TOO FLAKY

In the 1960s, some genius at Procter & Gamble asked:

“What if chips didn’t break in the bag?”

“What if they all looked like communion wafers doing yoga?”

“What if we invented food geometry?”

Thus, Pringles were born.

But not from potatoes.

From dough.

We’re talking:

• Potato flakes

• Rice flour

• Corn starch

• Wheat paste

• Binding agents that may or may not be sentient

• And something called “maltodextrin,” which sounds like a Norse god of bloating

These are rolled out into thin sheets like carpet samples, stamped by snack-industrial machinery, flash-fried in a conveyor-belt oil jacuzzi, then blow-dried (yes, blow-dried), and finally stacked into cans that resemble homes for rich hamsters.

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THE LAWSUIT THAT SHOOK THE SNACKVERSE

Here’s where it gets weird:

In 2009, a British court ruled that Pringles were not potato chips.

Why?

Because P&G literally argued in court:

“Your honor, our product is so highly processed, it doesn’t count as a potato chip.”

Their reason?

Taxes.

In the UK:

• Potato chips = “luxury item” = taxed

• Generic snacks = “essential” = not taxed

So Pringles threw themselves under the non-potato bus and won the right to be taxed less by arguing they’re less real.

That’s like hiring a lawyer to prove you’re not human so you can skip jury duty.

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TRUMP COMMENTS (Because We Know He’s Watching Snack Court Now)

“Pringles? I love them. They're tremendous. But let’s be honest. It’s potato fraud. Total fraud. 42% potato? That’s lower than Joe Biden’s IQ.”

“I was going to build a wall, but now I’m thinking we just stack Pringles cans. Stronger. Taller. Less flaky than CNN.”

“We’re going to investigate fake chips. We’ll find out who started it. I suspect China. Or Mitt Romney.”

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WHAT’S IN THE OTHER 58%?

Glad you asked. Because once you scrape away the potato flakes like a forensic snacker, you’re left with:

• Vegetable oil – Keeps your hands greasy enough to never use a smartphone again.

• Rice flour – For that weird smoothness that haunts your dreams.

• Wheat starch – Banned by 2 out of 3 gluten-free cults.

• Salt – Duh.

• Dextrose & Maltodextrin – Used in both food and industrial adhesive. Go figure.

These ingredients fuse together like an Avengers team of non-potatoes, giving you the sensation of eating a chip... without legally becoming one.

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WTF VERDICT: PRINGLES ARE SCHRÖDINGER’S CHIP

They’re chips.

They’re not chips.

They’re Chimera Crunch Units masquerading as real food.

They're 42% potato, but 100% existential crisis.

Oxford says a chip is “a thin slice of potato that is fried.”

Pringles? 

No slicing. No real potatoes. Just snack architecture.

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THE SNACK-SHAMING COMMENT WARS

@CrispyRealist69: “Pringles are to chips what MLMs are to employment.”

@DoughBoiJesus: “If you didn’t bleed a Yukon Gold with a mandolin slicer, it’s not a chip. It’s a lie in a can.”

@SnackTaxAvenger: “You know it’s real when a company says: ‘Please tax us less. We are fake.’ That’s peak transparency.”

@GlutenKraken: “Rice. Wheat. Corn. Potato. My IBS just filed a restraining order.”

@FlatEarthChipTruther: “Real chips come in bags, not telescopic weapon tubes.”

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FINAL THOUGHT

Pringles are the snack version of a Hollywood reboot: familiar, flashier, and missing the soul of the original.

They were invented not to enhance flavor, but to solve packaging.

They’ve transcended potatohood. They’ve been called not-chips by tax lawyers, philosophers, and snack purists alike.

And yet…

You’ll still eat them.

You’ll still love them.

And when the last crisp hits your tongue, you’ll forget they’re basically potato Play-Doh with a good marketing team.

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NEXT WEEK ON WTF GLOBAL TIMES:

“Kraft Singles: The Plastic Gospel of American Cheese”

Why one slice has more polymers than a shower curtain—and why Trump called it “the most American thing since Mount Rushmore.”

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👁️‍🗨️ This WTF is Weird, True & Freaky. 100% Trump-certified. Snack-industry exposed. Potato-adjacent. No chip left behind. No fake crisp unroasted.