# Lays, you ain't fooling no one. **URL:** \ **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:** 2
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/21 "2003-09-24T05:34:19Z")
Granted, they do ease the crushing pain of modern life, at least for a brief moment. ---
**Author:** ![Daddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cab0a1/32.png) [@Daddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daddy)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/22 "2003-09-24T06:15:46Z")
1. Do said “snax” give you a belly ache if you eat a bunch of em? 2. The cool thing about pringles cans is that they can be used to make a pretty good steam roller (not that I know from personal experience while in college, or anything). 3. This is the lamest pit rant eva! (Hey, somebody was eventually going to say this, right?) ---
**Author:** ![Cerri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@Cerri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cerri)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/23 "2003-09-24T07:19:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Airman Doors, USAF \* > \*\*Are those Great Corn-Holios? > > If so, they’d better come with TP. 😃 \*\* For your bunghole? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/24 "2003-09-24T07:29:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pkbites \* > \*\*Time began in 1968? > Cool!🆒 \*\* There were _Pringles_ in 1968!? :eek: Sometimes I feel so small and backwaters-y. Then I remember we’re talking about Pringles - over priced and undersalted… ---
**Author:** ![smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smoke)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/25 "2003-09-24T11:51:22Z")
So if America uses the word “crisp” to mean “potato sawdust pressings”, what word do they use to market them in Great Britain, where “crisps” are chips? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 12:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/26 "2003-09-24T12:01:23Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Darth Nader \* > \*\*… 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. \*\* Yum. What a great endorsement. Gotta get me some of them. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![World\_Eater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@World\_Eater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/World_Eater)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/27 "2003-09-24T12:04:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sublight \* > \*\*Granted, they do ease the crushing pain of modern life, at least for a brief moment. \*\* 😛 Crispy Stax ---
**Author:** ![Geobabe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/geobabe/32/3908_2.png) [@Geobabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geobabe)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/28 "2003-09-24T12:14:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Daddy \* > \*\* 3. This is the lamest pit rant eva! (Hey, somebody was eventually going to say this, right?) \*\* Oh, not hardly. Stick around a while, you ain’t seen _really_ lame Pit ranting yet. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/29 "2003-09-24T12:19:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pkbites \* > \*\*Time began in 1968? > Cool!🆒 \*\* That’s the short, short version. ---
**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/30 "2003-09-24T12:33:17Z")
Whoa! Let me veer way off topic here! I am nearly 30 years old. In my younger years I had quite a soft spot for Pringles. I must have eaten hundreds of cans over the years. It took me until reading this thread today to learn that Pringles are shaped that way 'cause they’re supposed to fit on your tongue!! I had no idea! I thought that shape was just so they’d sit nicely on top of each other in the can! Go figure… ---
**Author:** ![coffeecat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coffeecat/32/3405_2.png) [@coffeecat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffeecat)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/31 "2003-09-24T12:40:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*Well, the lining makes is one of the most effective insulators from the aliens’ mind rays! 😉 \*\* Only if you have a long, thin, cylindrical head. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 12:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/32 "2003-09-24T12:44:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\*We’ve had **Pringles** since the advent of time! \*\* Well, that explains the taste. ---
**Author:** ![troub](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troub/32/14802_2.png) [@troub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/troub)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/33 "2003-09-24T14:15:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by manx \* > \*\*Then I remember we’re talking about Pringles - over priced and undersalted… \*\* UNDERSALTED!? What!? PRINGLES!? UNDERSALTED!? Does not compute! Really, most people’s appetite for salt astounds me! Oh well, perhaps I’ll die at 40 or 50 years of age in a spectacularly cool explosion or sporting accident, as opposed to heart disease like everyone else. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Zorro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ad7895/32.png) [@Zorro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zorro)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/34 "2003-09-24T14:50:53Z")
Look, it’s just PepsiCo and Procter & Gamble slugging it out. On the question of wonderful things you can do with a Pringles tube, there was a wonderful set of instructions complete with some stuff to cut out in _Viz_ once: the **Kyliedoscope**. 1. Pierce a hole with a nail in the metallic bottom of an empty Pringles tube. 2. Fold a rectangular piece of aluminium foil the same length as the tube in half and insert it itno the tube so that the fold is aligned with the central axis of the Pringles tube. 3. Place a sheet of cling-film (cellophane) over the open end. 4. Cut out the little naked pictures of Kylie Minogue and the little dildos from your copy of _Viz_ and place them on the cling-film. 5. Place the transparent top over the cellophane, trapping the pictures in. 6. Now look through the little hole and rotate the tube and you will see a kaleidoscopic ballet of naked Kylie Minogues and dildos! Just before the last war in Iraq, they had another kit featuring one of those mini-Pringles tubes. It said on the cover: “Free inside! JUMPIN’ JACK FLASH! It’s a Rolling Stones GAS GAS GAS mask!” Which was a cut out gas mask with a picture of Mick Jagger on it. You sellotaped the Pringles tube to it to form the filter cannister. I never leave home without it. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/35 "2003-09-24T14:52:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Polycarp \* > \*\*Well, the lining makes is one of the most effective insulators from the aliens’ mind rays! 😉 \*\* :eek: ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/36 "2003-09-24T14:54:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zorro \* > \*\* > > On the question of wonderful things you can do with a Pringles tube, \*\* I hear tell they use them at zoos for impregnating pandas! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/37 "2003-09-24T14:59:13Z")
And all these years I thought the shape was so you could put 2 of them back to back and make yourself look like you have a duck’s bill. You learn something new every day on this board. I haven’t had any since the day they changed from fat to Olestra, thereby making the entire product essentially a petrochemical byproduct. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/38 "2003-09-24T15:01:21Z")
You can also use them as bowling pins in a homemade game. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/39 "2003-09-24T15:14:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ElvisL1ves \* > \*\*I haven’t had any since the day they changed from fat to Olestra, thereby making the entire product essentially a petrochemical byproduct. \*\* FYI, they still sell the original oil versions. It’s the “Fat Free” ones with Olestra. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430/40 "2003-09-24T17:20:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by smoke \* > \*\*So if America uses the word “crisp” to mean “potato sawdust pressings”, what word do they use to market them in Great Britain, where “crisps” are chips? \*\* Mmmm, _Potato sawdust pressings_ – the perfect complement to warm English beer. Actually I don’t think our labelling laws demand a differentiation between reconstituted potato filings and sliced potato chips. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lays-you-aint-fooling-no-one/203430.md?page=3)