Are Pringles chips?

Yes, if you think of them as "potato chips" then Pringles are considered chips. They are not fried, but they are still potato chips.

Pringles aren't fried?  
 
Mind = blown

No, they're hamburgers.

You know, this is a good question. I've never really thought about it in this sense. I've always thought that "Pringles" are well "Pringles". Nothing more nothing less. But now upon farther reflection of what an actual Pringle is, I would indeed call it a chip.

Pringles are not made from potatoes, although I guess there is some potato material in them, but it is not legally enough to be considered a potato product.  I would still consider them chips though.
 
There was a legal dispute over this in the U.K. recently.  Eventually, rationality won out and they were deemed chips after overturning a lower court's decision that they were not chips.

" Pringles aren't fried?   Mind = blown "

Crisps.

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Pringles are pringles.

"Pringles are not made from potatoes, although I guess there is some potato material in them, but it is not legally enough to be considered a potato product.  I would still consider them chips though. There was a legal dispute over this in the U.K. recently.  Eventually, rationality won out and they were deemed chips after overturning a lower court's decision that they were not chips. "

"No, they're hamburgers. "

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" Pringles aren't fried?   Mind = blown "

I sense sarcasm. "

What?  yes, was their a debate about this? 

No, as much as I like Pringles, for me a potato chip needs to be sliced from a whole potato and then deep fried.  Anything else is only a pretend chip.

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" Crisps. "

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Potato chips can be baked as well! Hence, Baked Lays.  "

I've always thought of pringles as a type of crisp.

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So would we not consider cheetos or doritos chips? I would say its easy to say they are not potato chips but chips overall, any definition excluding pringles would exclude cheetos, tortilla chips, doritos...

yes!

Pringles are chips.

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Crisps.

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damn. mad british folks up in this bitch
 
CHIPS DAMMIT

" Pringles are not made from potatoes, although I guess there is some potato material in them, but it is not legally enough to be considered a potato product.  I would still consider them chips though. There was a legal dispute over this in the U.K. recently.  Eventually, rationality won out and they were deemed chips after overturning a lower court's decision that they were not chips. "

Not according to the USFDA. Also potato chips are made from sliced (chiped) raw potato. Pringles are made out of dried potato flake (old McDonald fries) mashed into a paste, rolled into a log, sliced and cooked.

they are crispspspspspspspspspspspspspspspspspsps, they are basically mashed potatoes formed in that shape and fried/baked

The word "chips" is no where on the can. Even in America, they're still "crisps."

Crisps.

Pringles are starchy dust compacted into a chip-like shape by steel machinations more powerful than the Gods themselves.

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" @Geno said:

" Pringles aren't fried?   Mind = blown "

I sense sarcasm. "

No dude, I seriously didn't know. How can potato chips exist without being fried?  "

No - They're crisps.

No - They're crisps.

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"damn. mad british folks up in this bitch  CHIPS DAMMIT "

" Not according to the USFDA. Also potato chips are made from sliced (chiped) raw potato. Pringles are made out of dried potato flake (old McDonald fries) mashed into a paste, rolled into a log, sliced and cooked. "

" damn. mad british folks up in this bitch  CHIPS DAMMIT "

" No, they're hamburgers. "

Yes.

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" Crisps. "