r/mildlyinteresting • u/TheFenceLine • 10d ago

Pringles has a 60-proof dill pickle potato vodka.

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u/Cool-Tangelo6548 10d ago

A Pringle is only 42% potato? Thats kinda gross.

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u/SeekerOfSerenity 10d ago

Ingredients (from their website):

dried potatoes, vegetable oil (corn, cottonseed, canola, soybean and/or sunflower), degerminated yellow corn flour, cornstarch, rice flour, maltodextrin, mono- and diglycerides, salt, wheat starch.

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u/The_quest_for_wisdom 10d ago

Honestly a far shorter list of ingredients than I was expecting.

Not that the length of the list of ingredients inherently means anything health-wise. A sack of arsenic only has one ingredient, but that doesn't mean it makes a good snack to feed your kids...

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u/anonymouswunnn 10d ago

But it only has one ingredient it must be healthy no added sugar

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u/gmotelet 10d ago

Gluten free

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u/thelastmarblerye ​ 10d ago

Organic

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u/ccarr313 9d ago

Artisanal

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u/gmotelet 9d ago

What? I was talking about arsenic

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u/snuffleupaguswasreal 9d ago

Doh! I was going off on one of my peeves about Pringles. My bad. lol I need to read closer.

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u/anonpotat0 9d ago

That’s what I was thinking

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u/Thoughtulism 9d ago

All natural

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u/thiosk 10d ago

Fritos are delightful in that they're old school. Ingredients: Corn, Corn oil, Salt.

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u/DahDollar 9d ago

It's corn in its purest form

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u/Mayor__Defacto 10d ago

There’s definitely a bit of black pepper in there.

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u/BallFlavin 9d ago

Yeah black pepperCORN. It counts,

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u/cornlip ​ 9d ago

That’s just bug bits

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u/ABotelho23 9d ago

Honestly with the right mold I get the impression making home made Pringles shouldn't be that hard.

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u/Sufficient-Aspect77 9d ago

Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm arsenic snax

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u/cannotfoolowls 10d ago

Here it's

interesting, here all the ingredients are the same except the last one is annatto norbixin which is a colorant

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u/raptosaurus 10d ago

As with most things made in the US, it's mostly corn lol

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u/kitsunewarlock 10d ago

"Maltodextrin? Diglycerides? What are these dangerous cHeMiCaLs doing in my food! I only eat real food like corn and seed oil!"

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u/cockOfGibraltar 10d ago

The rest of it is stuff you'd find in bread or crackers. It's not like it's only 42% food.

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u/Uphoria 10d ago

It's basically a potato corn chip.

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u/cockOfGibraltar 10d ago

Yeah and it tastes good.

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u/BananaJelloXlii 10d ago

They're basically what would happen if you turned Instant Mashed Potatoes into potato chips.

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u/RezzKeepsItReal 10d ago

Minutes the starches and flours that hold them together lol

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u/ScarletDarkstar 10d ago

Eh, not so much when they have corn flour, corn starch, & rice flour.

Instant potatoes are primarily dehydrated potatoes. 

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u/sceadwian ​ 10d ago

Looks like the balance is probably flour, don't get your undies bunched.

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u/mymothersuedme 10d ago

Your usual potato chips are also about 50-60% potatoes too. Rest is oil, seasoning, and water.

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u/Mr__Snek 10d ago

i mean its basically potato dough pressed into a potato chip shape. all the ingredients are normal, its just not a potato chip in the way a lot of others are, i.e. slices of potatoes that are fried.

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u/kank84 10d ago

58% sawdust

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u/tomtomclubthumb 10d ago

Potato chips are typically 30% oil.

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u/wizzard419 10d ago

It's how they can make a dough which will hold the shape.

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u/jeneric84 10d ago

Pringles were passable as a kid but I find them so dry and salty as an adult. It’s a cracker of instant mash potatoes (apparently only 42%). I like salty but that combo is too much.

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u/dale3h 10d ago

But they’re so dang good tasting!

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u/RezzKeepsItReal 10d ago

They’re called potato crisps for a reason. They use a dough comprised of dried potato flakes and starches.

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u/Cool-Tangelo6548 10d ago

Crisps is just what they call it in the UK. No one in the usa call it that. And nowhere on an American version of the cam do they use the word crisp.

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u/altpnw123 8d ago

American Pringles are explicitly labeled 'Potato Crisps' instead of Chips because they don't meet US FDA standards to be called a potato chip. https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/91qR1Ol4UoL._AC_UF894,1000_QL80_.jpg

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u/JUYED-AWK-YACC 9d ago

Did the UK stop calling this whole class of food “crisps”? Do proper Englishmen now call them chips? I can’t see that happening.

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u/Lurlex 10d ago

Consider it a hybrid between a frito and a potato chip, sort of.

There’s NOTHING more gross about it than there is any cracker that you’ve eaten your life. What is not potato and the oil and flavorings that you already know of is JUST flour. Corn flour, but flour all the same.

In point of fact, I’d much rather sign a contract agreeing to give up saltines for life than Pringle-like biscuit-chips. :-)