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Pringles aren't potato chips, British judge rules

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July 5, 2008

Pringles, Procter & Gamble Co.'s salty snack stacked in a tube, are not potato chips, a London judge ruled Friday in a tax dispute.

Pringles don't fulfill the legal definition of "potato crisp," the British term for "chip," allowing them to be sold tax-free in Britain, Justice Nicholas Warren at the High Court in London ruled.

Under the law, most food is exempt from Britain's 17.5% sales tax. Even so, the national tax office claimed that Pringles were covered by an exception for products such as potato chips, sticks or puffs "and similar products made from the potato, or from potato flour, or from potato starch."

Procter & Gamble's lawyers argued at a May hearing that Pringles didn't look like a chip, didn't feel like a chip and didn't taste like a chip, according to the judgment. They also maintain that the snack isn't made like a chip because it is cooked from baked dough, not potato slices.

Potato chips "give a sharply crunchy sensation under the tooth and have to be broken down into jagged pieces when chewed," the Cincinnati-based company's lawyers argued. "It is totally different with a Pringle, indeed a Pringle is designed to melt down on the tongue."

Warren agreed. Pringles aren't "made from the potato" for the purposes of the tax exemption, he said. He didn't say what Pringles are, other than that they're tax-exempt.

The British tax office said in an e-mailed statement that it would consider the judgment "with a view to deciding whether to appeal."

In a similar case in April, the British government was told by Europe's highest court, the European Court of Justice, to entirely refund to Marks & Spencer Group more than 20 years of sales duty charged on chocolate-covered tea cakes.

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I have to agree with the judge. Pringles make me fart. Potato chips don't. Ergo, Pringles are not potato chips :yes:;)

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I have to agree with the judge. Pringles make me fart. Potato chips don't. Ergo, Pringles are not potato chips :yes:;)

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wow :wacko:

I told Neil and he's gone on a 15 minute rant about it. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMFG HE WON'T STOP! :lol: HELP!!!!!! :girlwerewolf2xn:

:secret: give him some pringles.

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UK crisps are slices of potato. Pringles are reconstituted potato, all mashed together into a funny shape. That's not a crisp, so I have to agree with the judge on this one.

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Chips aren't crisps either ;)

Nope-and OMG I miss fish n chips, curry n chips, chips peas n mushrooms in gravy from the take away! You CANNOT get a decent chip here ( or a decent curry).

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haggis n' chips > fish n' chips..

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I've not found any place that does the thick-style chips. I don't really care for French Fries.

lol.. they're called steak fries..

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haggis n' chips > fish n' chips..

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I've not found any place that does the thick-style chips. I don't really care for French Fries.

lol.. they're called steak fries..

Those steak fries do not taste the same.....I'll pass on the haggis.....ew.

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haggis n' chips > fish n' chips..

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I've not found any place that does the thick-style chips. I don't really care for French Fries.

lol.. they're called steak fries..

Those steak fries do not taste the same.....I'll pass on the haggis.....ew.

No - they don't taste the same... I was thinking perhaps because Chips are actual cuts of potato - while fries are reconstituted potator - squeezed out of a machine.

Fries are to Chips what Pringles are to Crisps.

I agree Haggis is rough. A friend of mine in the UK used to buy Haggis in a can. God knows where he bought it from. He was cooking it when I went over to his place once - bloody place stank like hell.

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