# I'm addicted to Pringles Tortillas! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405 "2014-04-30T23:11:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/21 "2014-05-01T14:41:59Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Really? You can’t see the difference between a product made from processed carbohydrates with added oil and salt, and say a tomato? I can see the difference, but you said it wasn’t food. By your definition (“processed carbohydrates”), homemade bread isn’t food. Nice Strawman, though. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/22 "2014-05-01T16:52:47Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > You’re comparing flavored Pringles to unflavored Tostidos. If you remove the flavoring dust, the ingredients are the same No, that’s for the basic “Original” or “Traditional” version that’s supposed to taste like… tortilla chips. They’re equivalent products. > [@](#): > > (Degerminated yellow corn flour is masa.) Sure. That’s why they carefully list it twice. Doritos are garbage in a bag, differing only from Pringles in that they aren’t molded. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/23 "2014-05-01T17:01:40Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > If your addiction is causing you any concern, the most effective simple method of overcoming it is sometimes to substitute a better but similar behavior. So you could try replacing eating the Pringles Tortillas with eating actual food. Pringles is on my list of actual food. The steamer you left in my thread isn’t though. And my addiction isn’t causing me any concern at all, thankyouverymuch. So what, is your username short for, “Don’t ask, but I’ll tell you, anyway”? ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/24 "2014-05-01T17:18:56Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > No, that’s for the basic “Original” or “Traditional” version that’s supposed to taste like… tortilla chips. They’re equivalent products. I disagree. It is clearly a flavored product, as evidenced by the addition of sugar and black beans. That fits with their “you don’t need dip” marketing. It’s just original flavor. > [@](#): > > Sure. That’s why they carefully list it twice. That’s what masa is: degerminated ground corn. Some know it as ground hominy. It isn’t listed twice. The difference between the two is that one is ground more finely than the other. It’s way more honest and transparent than just calling it all “corn”, like Frito-Lay. > [@](#): > > Doritos are garbage in a bag, differing only from Pringles in that they aren’t molded. My argument is that Pringles aren’t any worse. It’s all junk food. I don’t think there’s any real difference between molding, and sending it through a rolling machine. Pringles tortillas don’t differ from the competition nearly as much as does their potato chip. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/25 "2014-05-01T17:27:42Z")
> [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > Really? You can’t see the difference between a product made from processed carbohydrates with added oil and salt, and say a tomato? When I have people over and lay out some snacks I always put out tomatoes for people to dip into the salsa and quac. Because I care about my friends and family and only feed them real food. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/26 "2014-05-01T17:30:02Z")
Yes, yes, we’ve had this discussion. I have come to the conclusion that you are either a vegan locavore or a VP in the food industry. Sorry; I see greater differentiation in foods, from fresh-picked organic through many, many tiers of processed. The nutrition panel is a politicized fiction and comparing one carefully-delineated name and item to others as if it’s meaningful is just nonsense. As with Nutella, having similar capsule nutritional analyses doesn’t make it equivalent to peanut butter - I will take 90% or more ground peanuts with some additives over a 50/50 mix of palm oil and sugar with a dusting of hazelnut powder, no matter what the finely-ground numbers in the box say. Ditto for “corn chips” - Tostitos may be no paragon of healthy eating, but Pringles are a step up from synthetic garbage. (As are Doritos.) If you can’t even read the two instances of “processed corn component” above, to the point of insisting that it isn’t listed twice - well, you’re welcome to your interpretation. And your royalty check from Kraft, it would seem. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/27 "2014-05-01T17:57:42Z")
> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#): > > Yes, yes, we’ve had this discussion. I have come to the conclusion that you are either a vegan locavore or a VP in the food industry. And I have come to the conclusion that your arguments are so weak that you lean heavily on ad hominem strategies in a futile effort to back up your extremely weak points. I am not a vegan, or a locavore, nor do I work in the food industry. Never have. I don’t even know why calling Doritos and Pringles “junk food” would lead you to such a conclusion. > [@](#): > > Sorry; I see greater differentiation in foods, from fresh-picked organic through many, many tiers of processed. The nutrition panel is a politicized fiction and comparing one carefully-delineated name and item to others as if it’s meaningful is just nonsense. As with Nutella, having similar capsule nutritional analyses doesn’t make it equivalent to peanut butter - I will take 90% or more ground peanuts with some additives over a 50/50 mix of palm oil and sugar with a dusting of hazelnut powder, no matter what the finely-ground numbers in the box say. Does anyone else know what this is supposed to mean? Evidently Amateur Barbarian is under the impression that I think Nutella is just as healthy as Peanut Butter? Is that how everyone else is reading this? If so, it’s totally made up. > [@](#): > > Ditto for “corn chips” - Tostitos may be no paragon of healthy eating, but Pringles are a step up from synthetic garbage. (As are Doritos.) Toatitos aren’t sprayed with artificial flavoring. That makes them a little healthier than Pringles. The corn chip underneath the flavoring is basically the same thing. > [@](#): > > If you can’t even read the two instances of “processed corn component” above, to the point of insisting that it isn’t listed twice - well, you’re welcome to your interpretation. And your royalty check from Kraft, it would seem. I’ve already explained the difference between the two products. One is ground more finely than the other. They are both ground from the same type of corn that Tostidos, and every other corn chip on the planet, uses. They all use masa, which is degerminated ground corn, aka hominy. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/28 "2014-05-01T17:59:14Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > I’m still searching for Pringles Pecan Pie. I’ve eaten them. I got them at a dollar store. It was not a good flavor. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/29 "2014-05-01T18:34:55Z")
> [@Labrador\_Deceiver](#): > > Does anyone else know what this is supposed to mean? Evidently Amateur Barbarian is under the impression that I think Nutella is just as healthy as Peanut Butter? Is that how everyone else is reading this? If so, it’s totally made up… Amateur Barbarian has some weird obsession with Nutella and how it’s marketed. I think it represents all that is evil in the ad industry to him. I think it’s pretty straightforward and fine, myself, and I don’t get a cent from Nutella (nor have I even eaten it in, I dunno, ten years, maybe?) How the Nutella tangent fits into the topic under discussion–your guess is as good as mine. ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/30 "2014-05-01T18:40:15Z")
I guess he’s still mad about our discussion in that thread. I don’t hold the opinion he is attributing to me, though. He must have a very long, yet very faulty memory. Hell, the nutritional labels on Nutella and peanut butter aren’t at all similar, so I’m not sure what that part was about. ---
**Author:** ![Dorjan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dorjan/32/12440_2.png) [@Dorjan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorjan)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/31 "2014-05-01T19:00:44Z")
I tried some the other day. Ghastly things. Worse than real tortilla chips, and worse than regular Pringles! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/32 "2014-05-01T19:36:05Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Amateur Barbarian has some weird obsession with Nutella and how it’s marketed. I think it represents all that is evil in the ad industry to him. I think it’s pretty straightforward and fine, myself, and I don’t get a cent from Nutella (nor have I even eaten it in, I dunno, ten years, maybe?) How the Nutella tangent fits into the topic under discussion–your guess is as good as mine. It doesn’t fit in at all. I know that a thread creator doesn’t get to direct his own thread, but isn’t it nice of these enlightened Dopers to share their wisdom with us? “Why do you hyoo-mons like to eat nutritionally inadequate processed food?” Maybe because it tastes good? Maybe because it gives us a feeling of comfort? And maybe we don’t subsist on junk food exclusively. If you don’t like to eat it and don’t think it’s healthy, that’s fine with me, but don’t tell me how bad it is for me. Water is lethal if you drink too much of it. Now, if you don’t mind, the granola-crunching thread is thataway. ---
**Author:** ![flaming\_yawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@flaming\_yawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flaming_yawn)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/33 "2014-05-02T00:14:02Z")
wait wait wait…pecan pie pringles??? that is all I have seen or heard on this thread. also my others in this house love the tortilla pringles, but they will eat anything with salt or sugar. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/34 "2014-05-02T01:17:05Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > wait wait wait…pecan pie pringles??? that is all I have seen or heard on this thread. also my others in this house love the tortilla pringles, but they will eat anything with salt or sugar. Yeah, they had a bunch of sweet varieties of Pringles. I can’t exactly remember which ones I saw at my Walgreens, but there were about three different kinds. Looking online, there appear to have been, at one time or another: pumpkin pie spice, white chocolate peppermint, cinnamon and sugar, and pecan pie. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/35 "2014-05-02T01:36:44Z")
> [@flaming\_yawn](#): > > wait wait wait…pecan pie pringles??? . . . > [@pulykamell](#): > > Yeah, they had a bunch of sweet varieties of Pringles. I can’t exactly remember which ones I saw at my Walgreens, but there were about three different kinds. Looking online, there appear to have been, at one time or another: pumpkin pie spice, white chocolate peppermint, cinnamon and sugar, and pecan pie. Son of a gun! I thought it was just a quip! (I thought the same of the Harry Potter jelly beans, but, nope, they were real too! Ew!) ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/36 "2014-05-02T03:45:50Z")
Since we’re talking Pringles, when we were in Rome in late 2008, we saw rice-based Pringles being sold. My wife has kicked herself ever since for not trying them becuase we never saw them again and later learned that they weren’t launched in the U.S. Does anybody know if these are still sold in any market? ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2014, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405/37 "2014-05-02T05:03:40Z")
I had to have an intervention with the Pringles Salt & Vinegar. I was eating a can a day. Now I’m eating plain crackers. It’s not working. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/im-addicted-to-pringles-tortillas/687405.md?page=1)