British judge rules Pringles NOT crisps

[Sassy1natl 0]

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

The true litmus test. You should contact the court. They may want to call you in as a witness if there's an appeal!

heeheehee

[zqt3344 21]

17.5% sales tax, no wonder the USA bolted from British rule, that is one screwed up country. All they know how to do is tax the heck out of anyone and anything!

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-prin...story?track=rss

Pringles aren't potato chips, British judge rules

From Bloomberg News

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.

[Fandango 1,440]

17.5% sales tax, no wonder the USA bolted from British rule, that is one screwed up country. All they know how to do is tax the heck out of anyone and anything!

It's already added into the price, so it doesn't count

[pedroh 21]

these fries PWN everything else.. that's no lie

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

17.5% sales tax, no wonder the USA bolted from British rule, that is one screwed up country. All they know how to do is tax the heck out of anyone and anything!

It's already added into the price, so it doesn't count

Proportionally though - you notice that things like DVDs, CDs, Books, clothes etc cost proportionally the same in GBP that they do in $. Though we get ripped off on things like new cars, which are generally a lot cheaper in Europe.

[Mags 112]

17.5% sales tax, no wonder the USA bolted from British rule, that is one screwed up country. All they know how to do is tax the heck out of anyone and anything!

The UK is a screwed up country? Hardly. But thank for your considerate and well thought out argument there, zqt3344. I'm sure that you have lived in the UK and experienced this for yourself, otherwise surely you wouldn't be commenting in such a negative manner?

I'd say, in comparison, that the USA is pretty good at taxing the sh!t out of it's residents too...of course, it depends where you live. Where I live EVERYTHING is taxed (or seems to be!).

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

he/she/it is trying to get a rise out of people. Again.

[Peikko 1,575]

Pringles are horrible.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Pringles are horrible.

I'll agree with that - they're too salty and have a weird texture.

[Marilyn. 340]

these fries PWN everything else.. that's no lie

my hubby loves those... we can only find them at Rite Aid though...

I like the cheese ones..

Edited July 9, 2008 by *Marilyn*

[Mags 112]

he/she/it is trying to get a rise out of people. Again.

NOOOOOOOOOO? Really?

Marilyn ~ My son loves those Andy Capp Hot Fries...he ends up drinking rather a lot of water though...

[almaty 19]

these fries PWN everything else.. that's no lie

my hubby loves those... we can only find them at Rite Aid though...

I like the cheese ones..

cheese ones...FTW!

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

he/she/it is trying to get a rise out of people. Again.

NOOOOOOOOOO? Really?

Well... why do we tolerate this?

[almaty 19]

yes why>

[Saddle Bronc 124]

these fries PWN everything else.. that's no lie

my hubby loves those... we can only find them at Rite Aid though...

I like the cheese ones..

cheese ones...FTW!

Ya never had cheese-fries, pizza-fries--or poutine--Dean?