So instead of my usual tube of store-brand I grabbed a tube of Pringles because they had fancy limited edition flavours.

They put the flavour on the wrong side of the crisps. If you put them, as is proper, into your mouth so that they actually fit, right-out embracing your tongue, the spice is on the top side. I don’t have taste buds in the roof of my mouth. How can this kind of blatant incompetence exist in the world?

Also I would have expected more heat from something called “Thai Green Curry” but that’s a whole another topic.

My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      If I read this article right, and I think their picture shows their Pringles stacked same-side up as mine, mine have the flavouring on the other side.

      Which side is up in the can was never a question for me, they simply fit my mouth, and presumably mouths in general, better if the long concave side cups the tongue. It could be that they’re simply seasoned on the wrong side over here it’s not like they import them from the US, they’re produced in Poland.

      In any case the store brand has seasoning placement down, but as this is Germany you’re limited to paprika and sour cream and onion. Which I will be sticking with in the future.

      • baggachipz@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The shape of the Pringle has two obvious purposes:

        1. Fit easily to the mouth and engulf the taste buds with intense and pleasurable flavor.
        2. Model the curvature of spacetime as proposed by 11-dimensional string theory.
  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Have you considered…. Chewing?

    I’m not sure we should be taking advice of which side from people who still drive on the wrong side of the road.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I will not be taking lexicographical flak from the colony of our colony appropriating the name “Saxon” for itself. You can have “Anglo”, the Angles left wholesale.

      Also I’m not sure what you’re doing in your free time but usually I don’t open my mouth wide enough to shove in a Pringle at awkward angles.

  • ShepherdPie@midwest.socialEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I would have expected more heat from something called “Thai Green Curry”

    Any mass market product is going to be “white people spicy” at best.

    • barsoap@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Chipsfrish Peperoni definitely have more heat, they’re saying they’re using 10000 Scoville powder (though not how much of it). Generally speaking if you order something hot in Germany you’re getting Turkish hot, which is about “able to eat pure Sriracha without breathing fire” kind of tolerance level.

      But, granted, Pringles is American, I should have guessed.

      • Gieselbrecht@feddit.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Chipsfrisch is the brand you can’t compare any crisps to, it is unmatched in its heavenly taste.