The price of Pringles

[Puggit]

I don't do much shopping these days - Mrs Puggit gets the weekly shop in from Ocado or Sainsburys. Mrs Puggit has taken the Puggettes away for a week in Devon, and has left me to fend for myself.

I popped to the local JS emporium to fill up for the week, and after selecting some dips looked for some crisps to dip in them.

Now I always considered Pringles at £1.50 to be steep - but they were a whole gigantic £2.03 per tube. Yes, that's right, remodelled, reconstituted potato in fashionable flavours is now £2.03 per tube.

F..k off Pringles, I bought some Dorritos for 2/3 of the price.

[Mobile Chicane]

Each to their own and that, but I consider Pringles to be the most hideous 'crisps' ever invented.

I'd place them below other horrors such as salt and vinegar Discos (acrid wheels of cardboardy Hell) and prawn cocktail flavour Skips (gusset-flavoured polystyrene).

[Shaw Tarse]

Pringles are often featured in the BOGOF in supermarkets.

[m3alex]

i thought had now been included in the potatoe tax, and so the price has gone up. I remember they always got away with not being called a crisp as such so were not taxed on the luxuary item, but some court ruled they do have enough potato content now :confused :

[Simpo Two]

m3alex said:

i thought had now been included in the potatoe tax, and so the price has gone up. I remember they always got away with not being called a crisp as such so were not taxed on the luxuary item, but some court ruled they do have enough potato content now :confused :

Good effort but it's just the marketing department striping you up as it's a premium added value product innit.

[jas xjr]

at a quid a tube if its a bogof. but the oil they use leaves a bitter aftertaste

[whoami]

Mobile Chicane said:

gusset-flavoured polystyrene.

[deadslow]

Aren't Pringles just fat, held together with non-descript/vile flavoured dust?

[MiniMan64]

Tesco Value Tortilla Chips - 26p.

Job jobbed.

[condor]

Lidl and Tescos had them for 95p a few weeks ago. The same time, Sainsburys had them as a BOGOF at £2. Perhaps you missed the BOGOF sign?
They're a handy snack when you're at the racetrack all day.

[Glassman]

deadslow said:

Aren't Pringles just fat, held together with non-descript/vile flavoured dust?

Set fire to one

[Puggit]

I know they are almost always on bogof - but it wasn't the case yesterday. Sadly as Mrs Puggit does the shopping and is perpertually on a diet, they don't normally get bought.

I agree they aren't particularly nice, but for dipping I don't think there's a better 'crisp'

[tamore]

not had them since i had some in the US which we're 'fat free' as they were cooked on olestra. it's fair to say that the side effects of that stuff are real.

[Dave200]

Mobile Chicane said:

I'd place them below other horrors such as salt and vinegar Discos (acrid wheels of cardboardy Hell)

Take that back right now!

[shoggoth1]

tamore said:

not had them since i had some in the US which we're 'fat free' as they were cooked on olestra. it's fair to say that the side effects of that stuff are real.

Ahh, Olestra. Without which the term 'anal seepage' may never have been coined.

[Crusoe]

reconstituted old mcdonalds chips

[condor]

Crusoe said:

reconstituted old mcdonalds chips

They do taste very similar to them...in a reconstituted way

[captainzep]

Mobile Chicane said:

gusset-flavoured polystyrene.

Eurgh.

But as an aside...

The problem with a lady posting this is that whilst a man might come up with this description via schoolboy predjudices and stereotypes, MC's quote suggests an 'evidence base'.

You girls!

[SJobson]

I tried to make mashed potato from Pringles once, by pouring boiling water over some. It didn't work.

[captainzep]

SJobson said:

I tried to make mashed potato from Pringles once, by pouring boiling water over some. It didn't work.

Its always worth a go trying these things though.

When I was 9 I 'invented' savoury cereal by adding salt to my Shredded Wheat and milk.

It was a bad invention.

Additionally don't try crab sticks as the base for a 'seafood' stir fry. Especially as the only other ingredients I had were carrots and soy sauce.

However, Findus Crispy Pancake sandwiches were genius. University was a voyage of discovery in so many ways.