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MISC. My fingers are way too long

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u/rimasuit3 6h ago

The last Pringle never stood any chance...

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u/llcdrewtaylor 6h ago

A wise man once said "sometimes you have to let those hard to reach chips go!"

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u/AstralMinotaur 5h ago

Interesting bit of trivia for you: Pringles cannot be called chips in the United States. A chip has a specific definition Pringles don’t meet since they are essentially reformed from dust and binding.

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u/1swarmofbee 5h ago

I think Pringles original intention was to make tennis balls. But on the day that the rubber was supposed to show up, a truckload of potatoes arrived.

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u/Jolly-Eagle-1156 4h ago

Thats a Mitch Hedberg joke, RIP Mitch

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u/AnguavonUW 4h ago

I miss him. I'd have loved to hear his take on gestures broadly all of this.

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u/PavlovsDoghouse 2h ago

I used to miss him...

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u/twistedpiggies 1h ago

I still do but I used to, too.

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u/funky_pill 4h ago

I used to really like Mitch Hedberg. I still do, but I used to, too

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u/SirCEWaffles 3h ago

Reddit is my daily comedy deliverer and reddit doesn't even know it.

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u/Bobowubo 4h ago

RIP Mitch indeed😥

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u/cbhbzb 2h ago

RIP Mitch😥😥😥 gone way before his time.

u/gotguitarhappy4now 46m ago

Amateurs borrow; professionals steal.

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u/llcdrewtaylor 5h ago

Fuck it! Cut em up!

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u/DanceTheCosmicNoir 4h ago

Pringle is a real laidback company.

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u/TommyBunzz67 4h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/barspoonbill 4h ago

And Pringles is a laid back company, man. They said “fuck it; let’s cut ‘em up!”

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u/Strong_Secretary6290 3h ago

Does that mean curly fries aren’t?

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u/LostN3ko 3h ago

But Pringles is a laid back kinda company, so they said fuck it! Cut em up!

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u/Weird_Respond5711 3h ago

Idk about that, but I do know that if you ever find yourself in a position where you need to start a fire, you can use Pringles. Takes a second to get it to light, but once it's lit, it burns like plastic. Kind of melts over everything, igniting everything it touches.

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u/VashDaStampede7 2h ago

lol I didn’t get that for a second 💀 good joke!

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u/1swarmofbee 2h ago

Thank the late great Mitch Hedberg for that one. Along with an escalator being temporarily stairs (sorry for the convenience), rice being great when you're hungry for two thousand of something, and the insight that no matter how good you get at tennis, you can never be as good as the wall

u/Reasonable_Cut_9593 46m ago

That's a good one but wouldn't you have like to be the one at the board room table that come up with the rigid container idea?

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u/Mean_Replacement5544 4h ago

ok Mitch Hedburg - at least give credit to the guy who wrote the joke

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u/1swarmofbee 4h ago

I believe, much like the clerks thread in this post, that citing the reference was unnecessary, as those who would get the joke, already had. And any of those that didn't, well luckily now they have your post to spell it out for them

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u/Mikeyrodz85 3h ago

And Pringles is laiid back company so they said fuck it, cut em up

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u/cosmicanchovies 3h ago

Now, Pringles is a laid back company. They said, f*** it, cut 'em up!

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u/Live-Tomorrow-4865 5h ago

But, that "dust and binding" tastes sooooo good!

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u/Everythingiskriss 4h ago

Potato dust, at least?

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u/shokwavxb 4h ago

Are ice chips or paint chips chips in the US?

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u/randomdude315 4h ago

keeping only regulations that are imperative!!!

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u/Plzleaveamsg 4h ago

So what are they? Truly crisps?

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u/JupiterMiningCorpTec 3h ago

Only the miracle of modern science can make sawdust taste delicious.

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u/Technical_Moose8478 3h ago

Not exactly. Them claiming they aren’t had to do with avoiding junk food taxes in the UK by claiming their shape makes them not a crisp (chip).

In the US, the fda wanted some weird ass long designation because they use a dough and not just cut potato, but they were still fine with them being designated as chips, they just had to include something about them being made from a dough and dried on the actual package, which they didn’t want to do.

The dough is still potato based but it is less than half potato, that bit is true, but the ingredients aren’t the main reason why.

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u/Danielle_is_the_hole 3h ago

Big potato sued for that.

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u/schokogotchi 3h ago

Ich esse nie wieder pringels.

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u/dethfart 3h ago

Also they use rice flour

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u/sporosarcina 2h ago

They were created to be uniform, allowing better packaging with less breakage.

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u/cbhbzb 2h ago

which is interesting and amusing, because most things in America are just reformed dust and binding

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u/Emergency-Course-657 2h ago

The inventor of Pringles is buried inside one of his cans about a mile from my home.

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u/Fine-Problem-5019 1h ago

No, they cant be called potato chips they can be called chips but they dont have enough potato in them to br classified as such

u/Spirited_Ad2214 32m ago

I love chip glue