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When did pizza Pringles get so shitty? :( there's like no flavor on any of these
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StarvingMartist sh.itjust.works StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works
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Damn a ton of you really don't like to let people enjoy things huh?

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Scrubbles poptalk.scrubbles.tech scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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Good crisp is MVP right now if you can get them

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Skullgrid lemmy.world Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9249402/

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Raiderkev lemmy.world Raiderkev@lemmy.world
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Imo they were never any good. You might just be an adult now.

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MehBlah lemmy.world MehBlah@lemmy.world
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The taste of salt and food additives never was that great.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
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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.

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lennybird lemmy.world lennybird@lemmy.world
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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.

Pizza flavor one was the only one worth eating back in the day but I haven't eaten them in years.

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StarvingMartist sh.itjust.works StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works
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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

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OriginEnergySux lemmy.world OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world
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I got no idea but logically i would think 'corporation want cheaper seasoning but increase price of pringle, make more money by use less money, profit make shareholders happy' or something dumb like that.

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Nycifer piefed.social Jaegeras@piefed.social
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Remotedeck discuss.tchncs.de Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
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quediuspayu lemmy.dbzer0.com quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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I can buy something else instead. In OP's case, I can buy an actual pizza for the price of a pringles can.

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Nycifer piefed.social Jaegeras@piefed.social
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GreenKnight23 lemmy.world GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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ah a snack for people who like the idea of pizza, but have never had pizza and cannot stomach the thought of eating real pizza.

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mannycalavera feddit.uk mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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Are we pretending that Pringles had flavour?

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Nindelofocho lemmy.world Nindelofocho@lemmy.world
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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.

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LurkingLuddite piefed.social LurkingLuddite@piefed.social
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They've definitely cut back on flavor this past year. Not just on pizza flavor. I stopped buying any of them because they're not worth it any more. Bunch of extra calories for no taste? They can fuck off and die.

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AmidFuror fedia.io AmidFuror@fedia.io
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Isn't a market economy glorious that way? It's better than petitioning the government to update their 5-year plan on crisp flavours.

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AmidFuror fedia.io AmidFuror@fedia.io
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Maybe you have Covid.

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Starya67 lemmy.world starlinguk@lemmy.world
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Try the stacked chips from Aldi or Lidl. Much better.

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 pawb.social Kolanaki@pawb.social
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Like 2 years ago, or around that time. I stopped bothering with the pizza one because of this. The other flavors are still loaded with flavor powder. IDK why the pizza one started getting only half-seasoned.

I get the pepperoni cracker (not pretzel) Combos instead now.

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rose56 lemmy.zip roserose56@lemmy.zip
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They used to have Onion flavour too, not anymore. Now they have shour cream with Onion or something like that.

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NoSpotOfGround lemmy.world NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world
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#23 · (edited) Quote Reply

Maybe you have Covid.

GOOD recommend! Next time, I try Covid.

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Victor lemmy.world victorz@lemmy.world
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They used to have Onion flavour too, not anymore. Now they have shour cream with Onion or something like that.

shour cream

Hello Mr. Connery

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Psythik lemmy.world Psythik@lemmy.world
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Did they ever have flavor?
I remember being disappointed by them as far back as the mid 90s.

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FatVegan leminal.space FatVegan@leminal.space
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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

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belluck lemmy.blahaj.zone belluck@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Pringles aren’t an essential good. You can just stop buying them.

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sploder lemmy.world sploder@lemmy.world
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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 😂😭

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IWW4 lemmy.zip IWW4@lemmy.zip
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All pringels are shitty. All of them are disgusting.

So when did Pizza Pringels get disgusting, at conception.

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Konstant lemmy.world Konstant@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-02
#30 · Quote Reply

Try the stacked chips from Aldi or Lidl. Much better.

I'll try.

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CannedCairn lemmy.world CannedCairn@lemmy.world
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#31 · Quote Reply

Release day

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PhoenixDog lemmy.world PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
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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

Don't besmirch sausages like that!

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MonkderVierte lemmy.zip MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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#33 · Quote Reply

When did Pringles get pizza?

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Scubus sh.itjust.works Scubus@sh.itjust.works
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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.

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Akasazh lemmy.world Akasazh@lemmy.world
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Don't besmirch sausages like that!

Upvoted for 'besmirch'

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Akasazh lemmy.world Akasazh@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-24
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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

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spacemanspiffy lemmy.world spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-01
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Few years back, I noticed this too. They're, like, edible or whatever, but so bland tasting nowadays.

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StarvingMartist sh.itjust.works StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-01-31
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They've definitely cut back on flavor this past year. Not just on pizza flavor. I stopped buying any of them because they're not worth it any more. Bunch of extra calories for no taste? They can fuck off and die.

Haven't had em for like 4 years but yeah I taste the difference

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Ajikeshi lemmy.world ajikeshi@lemmy.world
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#39 · Quote Reply

since they introduced the additional flavour subscription

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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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#40 · Quote Reply

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

In terms of reconstituted potato-style chips, Munchos and Pop Chips are worlds better, IMO.

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Madzielle lemmy.dbzer0.com Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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#41 · Quote Reply

stop eating garbage.

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prole lemmy.blahaj.zone prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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#42 · Quote Reply

In terms of reconstituted potato-style chips, Munchos and Pop Chips are worlds better, IMO.

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.

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JohnnyEnzyme piefed.social JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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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.

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whelk retrolemmy.com whelk@retrolemmy.com
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These pringles are no longer pizza-licious. The guy from that commercial would be so disappointed https://youtu.be/V0cesD51jTg

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thermal_shock lemmy.world thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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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.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
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#46 · Quote Reply

Yeah that's the flavor I remembered

my favorite was these they punched you in the face with pizza

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
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#47 · Quote Reply

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I mean, we're not buying pizza pringles anymore.

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rumba lemmy.zip rumba@lemmy.zip
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Good crisp is MVP right now if you can get them

My Costco has those. Good to hear they're really good because they were over twice the price of the mainstream stuff.

I was still side-eyeing them because Costco doesn't generally carry anything offbrand that's not good AF. But it didn't pass the wallet test. I'll have to see if I can find some single cans.

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jefferyjefferson lemmy.org jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org
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#49 · Quote Reply

Dang that's sad. I used to really love these as a kid.

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jefferyjefferson lemmy.org jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org
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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.

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jefferyjefferson lemmy.org jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org
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#51 · Quote Reply

stop eating garbage.

No.

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