Damn a ton of you really don’t like to let people enjoy things huh?
Pringles once had flavour? In comparison to other brands, even the home brands from the discounters, Pringles are boringly flavourless.
Does everything else taste normal to you? Just asking on the outside chance covid or something has impacted your sense of smell and taste (happened recently to a parent).
Yeah, just enjoyed some warheads followed by some Carolina reaper cheese later in the day, trust, I’ve got the full range
pretty much all name brand chips have been getting noticeably shittier every year for the past decade
Idk what Pringles did to their formula… But I don’t like them anymore.
The Lays equivalent is wayyyyyy better. Just less flavors to choose from.
Trying em right now, so much better
Reese’s too went way down in quality.
Don’t eat this filth.
Dang that’s sad. I used to really love these as a kid.
January 25th, 2009
I remember it like it was yesterday, the day that Pringles made the announcement.
There were riots in the streets, but ultimately they held no teeth, all noise and no action.
And so it has remained ever since
I never understood why people would pick pringles over other chips. The consistency is weird and it’s just questionable stuff pressed into shape. It’s the sausage of chips
Don’t besmirch sausages like that!
Maybe it’s the cheap mystery-meat sausage of chips.
Upvoted for ‘besmirch’
Variety is the spice of life.
In terms of reconstituted potato-style chips, Munchos and Pop Chips are worlds better, IMO.
Munchos are okay for a bit. Eat too many and you get overwhelmed with salt and oil. I guess that’s a feature or something.
For sure.
Once in a while scratches that itch. Otherwise I prefer potatoes in the air-fryer.
I haven’t had Munchos since high school. Used to love them. But even then, I started to notice the amount of chips in each bag getting less and less.
It’s like when they started selling “whipped” yogurt for more than regular yogurt, despite it just being regular yogurt plus air.
Shrinkflation, or something like that I guess.
Chips are pretty unhealthy, so I try not to eat them much. So for me, less is generally better. Also, Munchos are salty as hell. But that said… gotta have 'em once in a while!
Pringles might be good for some kind of insulation project, maybe. They’re certainly not fit for human consumption, these days.
It’s the enshitification, along with everything else.
Few years back, I noticed this too. They’re, like, edible or whatever, but so bland tasting nowadays.
The bbq ones still got it. Only ones I buy now. Rest got super basic and bland.
According to the FDA, the agency “determined that the facility was operating under insanitary conditions, including the presence of rodent excreta, rodent urine, and bird droppings in areas where medical devices, drugs, human food, pet food, and cosmetic products were held.”
Enjoy crunching on those Pringles!
https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/food-products/a70199631/fda-rat-feces-recall-list/
Did you know fruits and vegetables grow out of the ground, surrounded by insects and varmint, who so happen to shit.
Ever see fly shit? Probably not, but it certainly adds up if untreated.
Well this was mainly just me fucking with the guy as a joke but if you read that article nah, they had rat shit and piss around human food and medicine.
Most places do not have that going on. And the FDA allows for a lot of wiggle room about bugs and stuff being in food I already know there can be maggots and all kinds of stuff legally in out food, at certain amounts.
But if even the FDA says its so bad it should be recalled man it was probably pretty bad because they aren’t the best in the world with standards and I say that as someone who eats the food they say is ok.
And there’s an acceptable amount of roaches that can be in peanut products, what’s your point?
For sure and maggots in pasta sauce and all kinds of other fun stuff. You can’t take stuff like that out completely in mass produced food.
Although, that was pretty bad for them to have issued a recall the FDA usually isn’t too strict so it was probably pretty bad.
But I was just making a joke because you were like “damn why don’t these taste the same” and its like, boom rat shit. I know it wasn’t in the chips but it was just funny to me.
The day companies realized “hey, we’re already so successful that we can just change up our recipes, still sell the same product and people will just buy on name value alone”.
Unfortunately, it works because people are that dumb.
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We can stop buying it.
I haven’t bought pringles in years along with many other products that fell victim to shrinkflation/enshittification.
I’m getting so tired of the whole “we can’t do anything about it” excuse. It should instead be said “we won’t do anything about it”
Can you imagine the power the people actually have in themselves collectively? You underestimate that.
If people collectively got their shit in gear, this practice wouldn’t happen. Why? Because people decided NOT TO buy it. If they don’t buy it for weeks and months, it’ll tell the company that “hey we know what you’ve been up to, this shit isn’t working” which will leave the company to decide to pull it or revert back to what it was that made us buy it in the first place. Which is quality.
Don’t be coming to me with this defeatist talk of “uhhhh we can’t do anything about it” because we WON’T because we’re DUMB.
Its bloody annoying when you point how buying a luxury good is bad in so many ways and some idiot is like “but what am I gunna do? Not buy an xbox? Not pay $70 for a game? Not buy Nestle products?” And im like…yea thats exactly what you do. You should be more disappointed or angry that something you liked got ruined by a corporation. Saying you “need” those things does not absolve you of the damage you’re doing to society.
And then when they buy those things, they are directly telling the companies “yes, we accept this, please do it more”.
“But I’m just buying from the store and making uneducated guesstimates about how transactions and business works” What they don’t understand is that money moves very fast and around. Whatever you buy from the store, cuts are made and the cuts do reach the corresponding companies (aside from thrift stores, flea markets .etc).
Yeah I get the idea that not enjoying what you used to enjoy sucks and going without it sucks even more. But, it’s not you or me that ruined that enjoyment and it’s not even the store itself that ruins the enjoyment. It’s always the ones making it and it is always the marketing teams involved that push for these prices that ruin it.
So route your anger directly to all and any marketing teams and go through whoever many you have to, until you’re bitching directly at the top of the chain about it. Bitching at overworked-Joe working at X shitty store, is doing it wrong. Bitching at the people who obliviously continue buying the shit, is also a good idea, but after awhile, you’re wasting time and breath.
Nice point, but I cant get people to agree that maybe killing innocent people is bad. Getting them to boycott pringles? Laughable that youd even suggest people care enough. Its not that I wont do anything about it, its that I cant.
That’s not really the kind of point I was making. You’re just tossing word salad and twisting contexts.
Isn’t a market economy glorious that way? It’s better than petitioning the government to update their 5-year plan on crisp flavours.
Pringles aren’t an essential good. You can just stop buying them.
I mean, we’re not buying pizza pringles anymore.
I can buy something else instead. In OP’s case, I can buy an actual pizza for the price of a pringles can.
since they introduced the additional flavour subscription
don’t let 'em gaslight ya, in 2008 they did some rework on fat and salt, around 2010 they screwed with a lot of different flavors. They used to have a pretty heavy tomato+herb taste, but it’s been quite a while.
Yeah that’s the flavor I remembered
my favorite was these
they punched you in the face with pizza
Pizza flavor one was the only one worth eating back in the day but I haven’t eaten them in years.
