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Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on June 24, 2023, 10:53:52 pm ---Because Pringles aren't actually made with real potato?the recipe calls for dehydrated processed potato?the FDA ruled in 1975 that Pringles could only be called "chips" if they provided a disclaimer, identifying them as "potato chips made from dried potatoes." Pringles scrapped that idea and renamed them potato "crisps
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But how to they define "real potato"? Why isn't "dehydrated processed potato" potato? ??? And how are they processed--I mean, turned into those chip-like things that come in the can? Are they baked, or what? ???
What I'd like to get at is what might be the difference between Pringles and the different "baked" (as opposed to cooked in fat, I presume) potato "chips" marketed by other companies, like Herr's, for example. ???
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on June 25, 2023, 02:32:55 pm ---But how to they define "real potato"? Why isn't "dehydrated processed potato" potato? ??? And how are they processed--I mean, turned into those chip-like things that come in the can? Are they baked, or what? ???
What I'd like to get at is what might be the difference between Pringles and the different "baked" (as opposed to cooked in fat, I presume) potato "chips" marketed by other companies, like Herr's, for example. ???
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Pringles are made from potato dough/batter placed in a mold to produce uniform objects. Looks like there are a few other brands of baked potato items made like Pringles. As Chuck said, they don't call themselves chips; sometimes they barely identify the potato-based objects.
Note that on this bag, there's no noun at all at the top of the bag in big letters, though it does mention below the BAKED that the contents have less fat than "regular potato chips," implying that they're otherwise the same product. But in the lower left corner in small letters, it says "potato crisps."
But there are also baked potato chips that are like regular chips -- i.e., thin slices of intact potatoes with irregular and sometimes curled or folded over shapes -- except baked.
All this must cause massive confusion in England, where ordinary potato chips are called crisps, and "chips" means french fries. And if that's not sufficiently confusing, in England cookies are called biscuits; it's not clear what they call actual biscuits -- it's possible they just don't have them.
Another way to explain the difference between Pringles and regular chips is to compare it to the difference between crab legs and "krab" legs, the latter of which are made with pureed whitefish flavored like crab, extruded into stick shapes and painted with a pink stripe. I once visited a factory that made those, and I'll just tell you that I've never eaten them since.
Sason:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on June 24, 2023, 10:57:08 pm ---
It's a sarcastic way to refer to a speech meant to hype you up or make you enthusiastic about something.
She gave us a speech about the importance of jury duty, and how what we were doing was important, to try to stop us from feeling inconvenienced by serving.
It's called "rah rah" speech because at sporting events, cheer leaders would shout "rah rah" at crowds to get them hyped and excited about the game.
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I see. Thanks
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on June 25, 2023, 03:52:48 pm ---Pringles are made from potato dough/batter placed in a mold to produce uniform objects. Looks like there are a few other brands of baked potato items made like Pringles. As Chuck said, they don't call themselves chips; sometimes they barely identify the potato-based objects.
Note that on this bag, there's no noun at all at the top of the bag in big letters, though it does mention below the BAKED that the contents have less fat than "regular potato chips," implying that they're otherwise the same product. But in the lower left corner in small letters, it says "potato crisps."
But there are also baked potato chips that are like regular chips -- i.e., thin slices of intact potatoes with irregular and sometimes curled or folded over shapes -- except baked.
All this must cause massive confusion in England, where ordinary potato chips are called crisps, and "chips" means french fries. And if that's not sufficiently confusing, in England cookies are called biscuits; it's not clear what they call actual biscuits -- it's possible they just don't have them.
Another way to explain the difference between Pringles and regular chips is to compare it to the difference between crab legs and "krab" legs, the latter of which are made with pureed whitefish flavored like crab, extruded into stick shapes and painted with a pink stripe. I once visited a factory that made those, and I'll just tell you that I've never eaten them since.
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I've been at my dad's for the weekend. Today we opened a bag of Ruffles "Baked." In a lower corner of the bag, in fairly small white letters that were barely visible against the blue background, they were described as "Potato Crisps."
The next thing I'd like to do is compare the "nutritional" content of Pringles to other baked "crisps."
Front-Ranger:
According to Livestrong, a serving (1 oz) of Pringles has 9 grams of fat, 2.5 of it saturated, whereas Baked Lays has 3.5 grams of fat, none of it saturated. Baked Lays has 2 grams of sugar whereas Pringles has none. They are about the same in sodium.
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