Legal Ruling of the Decade
This just in from England: Pringles are not potato chips. [Via TaxProf Blog.]
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Comments (6)
I hope there was loads of money at stake here...Otherwise it seems like a trivial matter for an appeals court (please tell me this isn't their supreme court).
Never really liked Pringles: they don't even taste like food, more like a seasoning platform.
Posted by Oh my | July 5, 2008 9:31 AM
I recall the ads from the mid 70's claiming they were "New Fangled" Potato Chips...not Potato Chips. Case closed.
The Sour Cream and Onion are my faves.
Posted by jimbo | July 5, 2008 9:50 AM
Of course they're not. In England, they are called "crisps."
Posted by Gil Johnson | July 5, 2008 11:50 AM
But "crisps" is in fact what they are determined to be not. And if you think Wi-Fi is a waste of public funds, you could get quite a kick out of some of the customs and VAT rulings that the European Union produces at great cost.
Posted by Allan L. | July 5, 2008 2:05 PM
they are only "food" because we've been told they're food. They have an 18-month shelf-life. Until I started doing merchandising for work, I didn't even know they expired. I guess after their pull date, they start to taste like the glue that holds their canisters together.
Posted by pril | July 6, 2008 10:47 AM
A comic (I forget who) once said: "There's actually only one Pringle™ ... the rest are all Xerox™ copies."
Posted by edison | July 7, 2008 1:22 AM