# Lays, you ain't fooling no one.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [September 24, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430 "2003-09-24T00:43:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/1 "2003-09-24T00:43:40Z")
Lays proudly introduces the new stackable snack; that’s right, **Stax** brand potato crisps.
America’s favorite snack now comes in **Stax**!
They’re fucking **Pringles**!!
**Pringles**!!
We’ve had **Pringles** since the advent of time! There is nothing new about **Stax**!! There is nothing to introduce.
What’s next? Lays groundbreaking marketing breakthrough, that exciting new breakfast treat: **Holios**. It’s fried dough with a whole in the middle.
Boing. What will we think of next?
Has Corporate America finally run out of ideas? We can only hope so.
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/2 "2003-09-24T00:51:05Z")
I wish my life was as great as yours.
Really.
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/3 "2003-09-24T00:55:33Z")
Hell, I wish my life was as great as you think it is.
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### Author:  [@Jaade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaade)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/4 "2003-09-24T01:01:36Z")
Holios…
~laughs hysterically~
No really…damn that was funny!
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### Author:  [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/5 "2003-09-24T01:01:45Z")
You didn’t tell us, though: Can you stack them all saddle-like on your tongue?
Pringles aren’t even real chips. They’re made from potato flakes (a Canadian innovation!) and seasoned on the side that fits on your tongue only. Somehow, it makes me sad.
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/6 "2003-09-24T01:04:52Z")
Are those Great Corn-Holios?
If so, they’d better come with TP. 😃
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### Author:  [@7\_up\_yours](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/7_up_yours)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/7 "2003-09-24T01:07:11Z")
Two words:
Baked Lays
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### Author:  [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/8 "2003-09-24T01:08:02Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by 7 up yours \*
> \*\*Two words:
>
> Baked Lays \*\*
Two words:
Vah-mit!
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### Author:  [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/9 "2003-09-24T01:08:12Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by GingerOfTheNorth \*
> \*\*You didn’t tell us, though: Can you stack them all saddle-like on your tongue?
>
> Pringles aren’t even real chips. They’re made from potato flakes (a Canadian innovation!) and seasoned on the side that fits on your tongue only. Somehow, it makes me sad. \*\*
On _my_ tongue? Yes. All of them. At once.
Stax aren’t chips either they are quite clearly referred to as “potato _crisps_.”
I don’t know from seasoning.
(actually I’ve never had them, so I don’t know if they are just like Pringles … but close enough for punk rock, knowwhadamsayin’?)
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### Author:  [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/10 "2003-09-24T01:08:59Z")
But can you use “Stax” containers as directional antennas when building a wireless network, like a Pringles canister?
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### Author:  [@BuckleberryFerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BuckleberryFerry)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/11 "2003-09-24T01:10:22Z")
And here I thought someone was only just know getting the concept that both characters were Dana Carvey. 😉
Glad to see I’m not the only one confused by all this.
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/12 "2003-09-24T01:20:34Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Revtim \*
> \*\*But can you use “Stax” containers as directional antennas when building a wireless network, like a Pringles canister? \*\*
Well, the lining makes is one of the most effective insulators from the aliens’ mind rays! 😉
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### Author:  [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/13 "2003-09-24T01:22:15Z")
No one’s even mentioned the HORRIBLE commercials for this stuff. Dana Carvey lost every single inkling of “funny” he ever had after the release of Wayne’s World.
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### Author:  [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/14 "2003-09-24T01:23:20Z")
Well, no one had mentioned it when I began that post at least.
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### Author:  [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/15 "2003-09-24T04:18:31Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Airman Doors, USAF \*
> \*\*Are those Great Corn-Holios?
>
> If so, they’d better come with TP. 😃 \*\*
Are you threatening me?
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### Author:  [@saramamalana](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saramamalana)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/16 "2003-09-24T04:19:11Z")
Is Holios the answer to the age-old question, _what would Jesus eat?_ ;j
(and the Dana Carvey thing just freaks me out)
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/17 "2003-09-24T04:49:05Z")
Gee, and I thought this thread would be about how you were able to eat just one Lay’s potato chip…
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### Author:  [@lezlers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lezlers)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/18 "2003-09-24T05:00:46Z")
I’m so glad someone else ranted about this, I thought I was losing my mind when I started shouting at the TV: _those are fucking PRINGLES, man!_
If it’s so easy to steal someone else’s product, why the hell did it take them so long to do it?
😕
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### Author:  [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/19 "2003-09-24T05:06:58Z")
I had to try them. So here’s the deal: They come in a plastic container (no antenna action), are slightly thicker than pringles, and taste like stale index cards- with a small stripe of “BBQ” dust rinning down the middle.
My ass has not yet exploded, so I guess they’re safe to eat.
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### Author:  [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2003, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/20 "2003-09-24T05:26:13Z")
> [@](#):
>
> \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \*
> \*\*We’ve had **Pringles** since the advent of time!
> \*\*
Time began in 1968?
Cool!🆒
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