Damn a ton of you really don’t like to let people enjoy things huh?
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.
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
when i was little i used to actually enjoy these dont think the flavor itself changed but i just find it less appealing now and kinda bland
Dang that’s sad. I used to really love these as a kid.
It’s the enshitification, along with everything else.
These pringles are no longer pizza-licious. The guy from that commercial would be so disappointed https://youtu.be/V0cesD51jTg
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.
since they introduced the additional flavour subscription
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
Variety is the spice of life.
Don’t besmirch sausages like that!
Maybe it’s the cheap mystery-meat sausage of chips.
Upvoted for ‘besmirch’
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.
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.
The first time I had these was probably 1998 while I was at my obese cousins house for a sleep over and that’s all the food they allowed me to have because it was so gross that they didn’t even wanna eat it. Then I fell asleep on the floor and they left me there all night. Very weird memory tied directly to this horrible flavor 😂😭
That’s indeed s weird memory, and quite shitty from your family tbh.
But thanks for sharing
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 mean, we’re not buying pizza pringles anymore.
Pringles aren’t an essential good. You can just stop buying them.
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.
I can buy something else instead. In OP’s case, I can buy an actual pizza for the price of a pringles can.
Release day
Did they ever have flavor?
I remember being disappointed by them as far back as the mid 90s.Maybe you have Covid.
GOOD recommend! Next time, I try Covid.
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.
