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The tube and the product are part of a holistic design whole. Pringles are made by pressing ground up potato paste into a disc shape and drying them. That make
by munificent 6y ago
The tube and the product are part of a holistic design whole.
Pringles are made by pressing ground up potato paste into a disc shape and drying them. That makes them weaker than regular potato chips, necessitating a rigid tube container.
You might ask why make chips that way in the first place? My hunch is that they exist as a way to use up byproducts produced by other potato products. Sort of like how sawdust from lumber production is used to make particleboard.
Pringles are essentially edible particleboard.
- kthejoker2 6y agoSo why not just package them Ritz Cracker style, cardboard box outside, wax paper inside? Again, seems more like a failure of imagination.
- munificent 6y ago> Again, seems more like a failure of imagination. Sure, but on the designers' part or ours? I certainly would not be surprised if there were reasons why the Ritz approach wouldn't work.
- spaceribs 6y agoHonestly, how cool would it be if it popped open like a pillsbury crescent roll can?