... Not very often I hasten to add, but sometimes when it’s raining outside all I want to do is be a couch potato watching bad movies on TV and picking at bits of junk food! Well, today was a bit like that!
I’m a sucker for savoury snacks too, and Pringles count amongst one of my favourites. ... Read review
Advantages: Tasty, tasty, very, very tasty Disadvantages: Once you pop, you just can't stop
...for savoury snacks too, and Pringles count amongst one of my favourites. Today, it was Pringles Light of the Sour Cream & Onion variety. Yeah, I know they’re highly artificial, I know they’re not that good for me, I know they’re full of fat (despite being 33% less fat than regular Pringles) and I know that they’re manufactured by a huge multinational whose ethical practices leave a lot to be desired! And they’re also HIGHLY addictive!
...to the 2 tubes of Pringles Light that had found my way into my Tesco trolley the other day on offer at two tubes for £2.
I love the cardboard tube, flipping up the plastic lid and adore the moment when you pop the foil covering to reveal the wonderful aroma of the culinary delight that you just know is about to tantalise your taste buds. OK then, I agree culinary delight may be a tad over the top, but tasty snack it certainly is. more
Do you ever have one of those days where you just want to pick at comfort food and don’t eat proper meals? Alas, I do. Not very often I hasten to add, but sometimes when it’s raining outside all I want to do is be a couch potato watching bad movies on TV and picking at bits of junk food! Well, today was a bit like that!
I’m a sucker for savoury snacks too, and Pringles count amongst one of my favourites. Today, it was Pringles Light of the Sour Cream & Onion variety. Yeah, I know they’re highly artificial, I know they’re not that good for me, I know they’re full of fat (despite being 33% less fat than regular Pringles) and I know that they’re manufactured by a huge multinational whose ethical practices leave a lot to be desired! And they’re also HIGHLY addictive!
So sitting here today I decided I was in need of some sensational savoury satisfaction and my mind turned to the 2 tubes of Pringles Light that had found my way into my Tesco trolley the other day on offer at two tubes for £2.
I love the cardboard tube, flipping up the plastic lid and adore the moment when you pop the foil covering to reveal the wonderful aroma of the culinary delight that you just know is about to tantalise your taste buds. OK then, I agree culinary delight may be a tad over the top, but tasty snack it certainly is.
The shape of Pringles is unique and eye catching. The crisp is a perfect arc, and has an ever so slightly rough textured surface, that feels a little floury, due to the flavour coating. How they make them so perfect I don’t know and what’s more, I don’t really want to know. I just want to indulge my moment and savour the flavour!
The crisps themselves are ever so thin, and beautifully crunchy. They make such a satisfying crunching noise as they crumble onto your palate. As you know today’s flavour was sour cream & onion. This is my absolute favourite. I also like the standard flavoured varieties such as Original and Salt & Vinegar, but Sour Cream & Onion is truly divine. The sour cream flavour is really quite subtle but definitely there, and is quite creamy. As you chew these crisps the creaminess becomes more intense and combines beautifully with a relatively strong onion flavour. The onion flavouring to me is slightly subtler than standard onions, and has more of the depth of a spring onion type flavour in my opinion.
Bearing in mind this is a “low fat” alternative, there just has to be a disadvantage somewhere doesn’t there? Or does there? In the “full fat” version, the flavour is definitely fuller and a bit stronger, and the creaminess is more intense. However, I find with the normal variety that the creamy flavour coating on the crisp actually leaves a bit of a coating on your tongue. I don’t mind it, but this doesn’t happen with the “low fat” alternative, so I actually I prefer them.
However, for all you dieters out there (and I should be amongst you – no doubt about that), don’t get too excited by the fact that Pringles Light are 33% less fat than regular Pringles.
Here are the facts!
175g tube of Pringles Light sour cream & onion = 861 kcal and 16.1g saturated fat
Your average bag of crisps is 25g and values for this amount = 123 kcal and 2.3g saturated fat
Now that means that your standard tube of Pringles is equivalent to 7 bags of crisps, so technically you’d be putting these away several times, in tandem with the length of time it would take you to get through the equivalent amount of standard potato crisps. Hmmm. Not on your nelly! Thankfully, most of the time I manage to avoid consuming the whole tube in one sitting, but it’s not easy. It’s so true that once you pop, you just can’t stop! I’m lucky if I can stretch to 3 munching sessions. Oh dear!
Ah well. There goes that diet again, until next time.
Suitable for Vegetarians, but not vegans.
My overall conclusion, OK, now and again for a treat, but a true danger to my health if I buy them on any kind of regular basis. I’ll stick to when they’re on special offer! Over processed, artificial? Yes, they are, but I don’t care, because I love them!
Advantages: Ummmmmmmmmmmm Disadvantages: If you eat a tin..you just want more and more and more.......
...to an empty tub of Pringles anyway. I'm I pregnant and got a craving, I here you say. Nope, I'm not. I'm I just a big, piggy who gorges out on Pringles? Nope. I don't have a snout, but I do like to have my trotters in the trough so to speak. So why, have I just eaten a whole tub of Salt and Vinegar and STILL long for more? Pringles must be my favourate gourmet food, apart from spagetti bolognese of course. The company called Proctor and Gamble are ... ...long time to perfect Pringles the Pringles taste. Pringles have been on the market for 6 yrs or so now. I think they have found exactly how to make a perfect crisp, with lots of taste and a variety of flavours too. Apparently how they do it is like this but it is supposed to be a trade secret. They buy their potatoes in the form of potato flakes, then mix it with a little water to make it into soft dough. Wholesome ingredients are added, the dough ...
chrissiepops 21.12.2001
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Advantages: You can console yourself you are much better looking than the guy on the tube Disadvantages: But he may have more hair
...bow tie!!.
The word Pringles is emblazoned across the front of the tube in yellow writing, and a few stray crisps floating around underneath it to give the extraterrestrial feel (a must for crisp eaters). The words Texas Barbecue Sauce is in smaller letters underneath, and a picture of a sheriff’s badge (though what relevance that has to it I don’t know, maybe because everyone is Texas is a sheriff ).
... ...worked out a tube of Pringles is equivalent to about 7 packets of normal crisps, I would say in one sitting I have maybe eaten just less than a packs worth (which for me is unknown as I could eat three bags of crisps in a sitting).
As Pringles come in a tube, they are less prone to breaking up into little crumbs, which is ideal if you are having a buffet as you won’t have your less savoury guests raking around the crisp bowl for the biggest ones ...
cacalala1971 02.05.2003
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Advantages: Good in small quantities Disadvantages: Artificial flavour, big conglomerate producers
If you think about, Pringles crisps are strange. I wonder who first thought of the idea- I imagine two guys sitting around eating a bag of mashed up crisps, and saying, "Hey, wow, we could avoid this problem by of creating the funny shape and stacking them in a tube- so NO MORE CRUSHED CRISPS." Nifty, cause, you know, I was losing sleep over having a few broken crisps in my bag…
You'll be glad to know this was a carefully thought out design, ... ...of me a tube of Pringles "Right" crisps, which contain 33% less fat than normal Pringles. This is not to say that they contain any less artificial taste and ingredients than fat Pringles. For the uninitiated, let me just clarify: Pringles offer a range of crisps, including the Full Fat variety, the Partly Fat Right variety, and a Fat Free option, in a number of flavours including Sour Cream & Onion, Ranch, BBQ, Cajun, and "Original" which I take ...
tartantribe 23.11.2001
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Advantages: Taste and texture quite pleasant Disadvantages: High in fat and calories, strangely more-ish
...there were several flavours of Pringles available at our supermarket. I looked at paprika, onion, oriental, and hot spicy. There were some plain ones as well. I chose the hot and spicy. They didn't say they were suitable for vegetarians, but a quick scan of the ingredients, horrifying though it was, didn't suggest any kind of meat product. They don't mention being GMO-free, so probably contain something that's been modified genetically. It's difficult ... ...of the hot and spicy Pringles isn't overpowering when opening the pack, but after experimentally moving one nearer to my nose there was a distinctive odour: not unpleasant, but not particularly appetising either. Something like general Chinese cooking combined with a bit of chilli. More interesting is the shape: each Pringle is shaped roughly like a horse's saddle, and they're stacked up neatly inside the carton. I understand that this is due to ...
Kukana 17.10.2003
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Advantages: Delicious, crunchy, cheap Disadvantages: The adverts maybe
...My favourites have always been Pringles and so my cupboard is naturally well stocked for Chrimbo, and as usual in my food opinions, here are my findings:
~~~~~~PACKAGING~~~~~~
Pringles unlike other crisps come in a large cardboard tube instead of the usual packets, the tube is coated on the inside with foil to keep them fresh and they have two lids to keep them doubly fresh, one foil and then a pop off plastic lid.
The box is brightly decorated ... ...bottom of the tub. The Pringles logo to be found at the very top of the tub is an annoying Italian looking dude with a thick dodgy moustache (Don’t ask).
The actual colour of each tub depends on the flavor you choose, below is a list of available flavors and the colour box in which they come, (Sorry Phil but I do think this is quite relevant) .
Sour cream and onion – Light green box
Cheese and onion – Dark pink box
Salt and vinegar – ...
deano_76 20.12.2002
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