Why are Pringles so inconsistent???

The Davestator

Like a lot of people, I like a few Pringles every now and then...

However, why, in these days of mass production and product testing are pringles so inconsistent? Some days, you can get a lovely tube of Cheese and onion with loads of flavour and other days, you may as well be eating cardboard - no flavour:mad:

Has anyone got any tips on how to recognise a great flavoursome tube or will it remain a saturday night lottery?

phasers

Sour Cream and Onion ftw

Gunsfortoys

Pringles have gone down the tubes.

petes

Same as Monster Munch...get one packet and they are lovely and others its like eating dry cream crackers.

Asphyxia

I love pringles I always do the duck face with them :rolleyes: Sour cream and onion or prawn cocktail.. nom nom nom

Boom_Bap

They originally made Tennis Ball's, they still havent perfected thier manufacturing process.

http://www.break.com/usercontent/2006/10/21/mitch-hedberg-on-pringles-169072

factnee

I find that Hunky Dorys are even more inconsistent

Gunsfortoys

McCoys Salt and vinegar are the superior crisp.

ejmaztec

Pringles=over-priced sh1te in a tube.

Iwasfrozen

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

McCoys Salt and vinegar are the superior crisp.

This plus a million.

Badgermonkey

Pringles are in fact biscuity cake.

Not made from potato. :eek:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7490346.stm

Buceph

I refer to this phenomenon as the "Tayto Surprise" as cheese and onion Tayto's seem to be the worst offenders in standardising and quality control. Some times you get a wonderful bag of Taytos. True beauties, and on those days they are the greatest crisp in the world. Other days you get seriously bad crisps, and they can be worse than any other manufacturers worst offerings. The range of Taytos quality is so completely vast that I coined the term "Tayto Surprise" in honour of them.

I have plans that should I ever come into money, I'll set up a website of that name. I will get crisps and savoury snacks from around the world, and build the definitive reference site for what is and isn't a worthy crisp (and peanut, sesame stick, popcorn, corn snack and nut in general.) And you can all help me when I set it up.

muff03

remember when sour cream and onion had loads of the stuff coated on them? barely any taste off them sometimes now

jester77

The flavour is probably at the bottom of the tube. You need to give them a good long hard shake before you open.

Sephiroth_dude

Dam I want salt and vinegar pringles now and monster munch,I love it when you get really salty pringles and real spicey monster munch nyommmmmmmmmm

Kells...

Sour Cream and onion = Jizz

Magic Eight Ball

Meh, Doritos chilli heatwave FTW.

Captain_Generic

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Dam I want salt and vinegar pringles now and monster munch,I love it when you get really salty pringles and real spicey monster munch nyommmmmmmmmm

Don't get me started on monster munch, they used to be thick and covered in flavoring, now they're just puffs of air. Delicious puffs of air....

Hazys

Once you pop, you cant stop!


So obviously there is Heroin in Pringles. The first taste is always unbelievable, then not so good the second time, the third time it just tastes like cardboard...so you keep eating it trying to achieve the taste you got the first time. Soon you and Amy Winehouse are on the streets selling your bodies to get some money to feed yer addictions...Hey kids, Pringles are baaaaad.

alexa5x5

Had a bag of Banshee Bones the other day, there still gorgeous!

walshb

Can't say I have ever noticed the discrepancy with pringles, but chipsticks, yes. Love them, but when you get a bland packet, you sure know about it!

Junco Partner

can't go wrong with a bag of skips.

phill106

Never mind the flavour, how come they can't sort it so that my hand can fit in the tube! Or have it slightly spring loaded so that as more delicious pringles are eaten, and thus the contents being lighter, the inner base would rise majestically to the top, allowing me to eat them without turning the tin on its side!

McChubbin

MMmmm. Chickatees.

Junco Partner

chickatees are gone to crap lately. which is devastating. all the flavour seems to be on one and they're not as melty as they were.

KeithAFC

Love salt and venegar ones. Hmm..

Ghost Buster

And why keep hammering home this myth of "Once you pop you cant stop" when they clearly supply them with an air tight re-sealable lid.
Have the faith of your convictions Pringles. Foil top only!!!!

pawrick

f0ggy92 wrote: »

chickatees are gone to crap lately. which is devastating. all the flavour seems to be on one and they're not as melty as they were.

hate when you get the one with all the flavouring without noticing - tastes rotten

also never try them with chewing gum, the gum breaks up and sticks to your teeth...not nice although i wonder why i ever thought it could be.


these are the best of the easily got ones imo

Cheese and onion - King Chrisps
Smokey Bacon - Sam Spudz
Salt and vinegar - Pringles/Tayto
Prawn Cocktail - skips

Old Monster munches before they changed the falvour
Chickatees
Chip sticks
Cheese bites - Tesco, supervalue etc
Dorreto Tangy cheese
Rancheros

Kimono-Girl

alexa5x5 wrote: »

Had a bag of Banshee Bones the other day, there still gorgeous!

they are soooo yummie.


i had meanies the other day for the first time in ages! they were delicious.

as for pringles the only ones i found flavourful were the sour cream and the salt and vinegar ones....


ready salted just taste like cardboard and the cheese and onion ones are just not tayto's!!!

Irishpimpdude

Would love a packet of mummies yumm http://www.taquitos.net/im/sn/ClawsOfTheMummies.jpg

this thread has gotten so off topic just loads of people drueling about all
sorts of crisps at this stage

Gummy Panda

I prefer skips

SomeFool

Cheese and onion - taytos are still best i think
Salt and vinegar - has to be discos
Smokey bacon - Sam Spudz crinkle cut
Pringles are horrible!!!

RichieC

I can fit my whole foot into a pringles tube.

mesosplody

Buceph wrote: »

Some times you get a wonderful bag of Tayto.

No such thing, surely you must mean King?

the_syco

Lidl Sour Cream and Onion crisps ftw. The big blue bag.

CrazyRabbit

TroutFisher wrote: »

Sour Cream and onion = Jizz

And how exactly do you know that this is an accurate comparision?

mesosplody

SomeFool wrote: »

Cheese and onion - taytos are still best i think
Salt and vinegar - has to be discos
Smokey bacon - Sam Spudz crinkle cut
Pringles are horrible!!!

Roast turkey are nice. I think they put additional crack on them.

CrazyRabbit

I accidentally the whole tube of Prawn Cocktail flavoured Pringles two days ago. Although, they taste nothing like prawns.

UglyBolloxFace

Hot Lips/Wheelies ftw

PrincessLola

'Original' flavour pringles are nasty. Anyone who offers them to me gets a swift kick in the arse for being so boring with their flavour choices.

Rabble Rabble

I have agreed with everybody in this thread!! A record! OPen the Champagne!!



Edit: put the Champagne on hold. I didnt agree with the anti-pringles guy.

Someday the dream will come true.

Rabble Rabble

and chipsticks. Walshb was not thanked enough.

Sometimes chipsticks are like salt and salt and salt and bits of melty potato goodness ( the heart it doth protest, but we ignoreth!), and sometimes its like eating a few branches that fell in the forest.

fix that ChipStick people. Fix it good.

Rabble Rabble

PrincessLola wrote: »

'Original' flavour pringles are nasty. Anyone who offers them to me gets a swift kick in the arse for being so boring with their flavour choices.

How did they even survive the original flavour? Thankfully I started with the sour cream and onion goodness, so I put it down to the flavour not the crisps themselves?

January

I love any crisp that makes the inside of my mouth numb... so salt and vinegar mccoys... hunky dorys, discos and banshee bones!

TanG411

Thinking of salt and vinegar makes me salivate.

Alter-Ego

Once you get half way down a tube of sour cream and onion Pringles they start to taste like grease.

Chilli Heatwave Doritos FTW.

TPD

Salt and Vinegar Discos when they had those wee extra-salty-vinegary flavour sachets that you could add if you were badass. Mmmm.

I don't think they're around the republic, but spicy flavour Transform-a-Snack are fcuking delicious.

STIG83

I love sour cream and onion Pringles!!

ynul31f47k6b59

f0ggy92 wrote: »

chickatees are gone to crap lately. which is devastating. all the flavour seems to be on one and they're not as melty as they were.

Agreed, I've gone po-faced trying to melt them recently.

I would quite happily live on crisps - once in college I only had £1 for dinner so I bought 10 bags of hot lips.

Pringles are evil, but on the rare occasion that I do go to the darkside, I only like the sour cream ones - then I eat an entire tube and feel sick. I love Walkers Thai Sweet Chilli, Tayto Ripples in Sour Cream & Onion, and Hunky Dory Worcester Sauce but they're really hard to find. And I can't believe that nobody's mentioned the tooth-picking-fest that's Johnny Onion Rings. Yummy...

mconigol

Insurgent wrote: »

Same as Monster Munch...get one packet and they are lovely and others its like eating dry cream crackers.

Dry cream crackers are awesome. Have to be jacobs though...none of that cheap imitation ****

imme

I find them pretty much consistent, i.e. crap