Are Pringles made from potato?

[Traianvs]

You ignorant fools! They're Belgian, made in my hometown Mechelen and as it so happens I'm going there to see the Belgian cup final tonight. I'll go and have a look during half-time

[Theben]

That would explain why the guy on the canister looks like Poirot.

[MrFun]

It is an important question worth millions of dollars. Please respond.

Read the damn ingredients label.

[Sirotnikov]

These Pringles are making me thirsty!

How did the movie part go?

[Kitschum]

I was cut for adlibbing.

[Dauphin]

Read the damn ingredients label.

That means nothing in the world of legalese. You must know that by now.

[rah]

Well, I don't know if this a copy of the most recent list of ingredients on the side of the can but here it is.
The first one listed is dried potatoes, so the answer must be yes, they're made from potatoes. A great scam on the foolish euros.

[rah]

Sind the indredients must be listed in descending order of percent of final product, mostly potatoes.

[Dauphin]

The Court ruled that it was less than 50% potato therefore not potato chips. Then the Court of Appeal said, bollox, they are potato chips. (Technically the Courts actually said it was an "Aristotlean question" on essences and also on "potatoness").

Bottom line. The tax man wins on appeal.

[EPW]

(Technically the Courts actually said it was an "Aristotlean question" on essences and also on "potatoness"

[rah]

[Zkribbler]

From Wikipedia:

In a London courtroom during July 2008, Procter & Gamble lawyers successfully argued against Keiron Williams that Pringles are not potato chips, as their actual potato content is only 42 percent. This exempts Pringles from the 15 percent Value Added Tax for potato chrceips and potato-derived snacks. The can does still sometimes bear the words "Potato Chips." However the Court of Appeal has reinstated the tribunal's decision. A spokesperson for Procter & Gamble stated that they have been paying the Value Added Tax protectively and therefore will not owe back taxes

[GePap]

Ah, the wonders of modern food science.

[MrFun]

What's next? M&Ms are not really made of chocolate?

[MikeH]

Proctor and Gamble also argued that they shouldn't be taxed like potato chips because that wasn't the arena of snacks they were competing in, er. bollox.