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They used to be so seasoned I couldn't finish a short can

I can't remember the last time I've had Pringles brand potato chips as we call them in the good ole USofA. I think in other countries they're called CRISPRs or Jollysnots or something?

Can't say I've had the pizza flavor. A few weeks ago I nearly gave into temptation as I was going down THAT isle in the grocery store and I saw some new to me flavors along the lines of loaded baked potato and loaded nachos. Sounded great in theory, and I was probably very hungry at the time, but I passed knowing they almost certainly taste ... lame at best.

There was a time in my life when I liked some of the basic flavors like BBQ, but I feel like the shittification (which is different from enshittification) happened a long time ago, perhaps even before you were born.

I'm going to assume the vast majority of the comments are going be along the lines of "they've always been shitty". How old were you when you thought they were good?

Pringles once had flavour? In comparison to other brands, even the home brands from the discounters, Pringles are boringly flavourless.

Does everything else taste normal to you? Just asking on the outside chance covid or something has impacted your sense of smell and taste (happened recently to a parent).

pretty much all name brand chips have been getting noticeably shittier every year for the past decade

I never understood why people would pick pringles over other chips. The consistency is weird and it's just questionable stuff pressed into shape. It's the sausage of chips

Idk what Pringles did to their formula... But I don't like them anymore.

The Lays equivalent is wayyyyyy better. Just less flavors to choose from.

Reese's too went way down in quality.

The day companies realized "hey, we're already so successful that we can just change up our recipes, still sell the same product and people will just buy on name value alone".

Unfortunately, it works because people are that dumb.

don't let 'em gaslight ya, in 2008 they did some rework on fat and salt, around 2010 they screwed with a lot of different flavors. They used to have a pretty heavy tomato+herb taste, but it's been quite a while.

Dang that's sad. I used to really love these as a kid.

Few years back, I noticed this too. They're, like, edible or whatever, but so bland tasting nowadays.

The first time I had these was probably 1998 while I was at my obese cousins house for a sleep over and that’s all the food they allowed me to have because it was so gross that they didn’t even wanna eat it. Then I fell asleep on the floor and they left me there all night. Very weird memory tied directly to this horrible flavor 😂😭

It's the enshitification, along with everything else.

since they introduced the additional flavour subscription

January 25th, 2009

I remember it like it was yesterday, the day that Pringles made the announcement.

There were riots in the streets, but ultimately they held no teeth, all noise and no action.

And so it has remained ever since

Maybe you have Covid.

I got no idea but logically i would think 'corporation want cheaper seasoning but increase price of pringle, make more money by use less money, profit make shareholders happy' or something dumb like that.

These pringles are no longer pizza-licious. The guy from that commercial would be so disappointed https://youtu.be/V0cesD51jTg

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9249402/

Did they ever have flavor?
I remember being disappointed by them as far back as the mid 90s.

Release day

Like 2 years ago, or around that time. I stopped bothering with the pizza one because of this. The other flavors are still loaded with flavor powder. IDK why the pizza one started getting only half-seasoned.

I get the pepperoni cracker (not pretzel) Combos instead now.

Don't eat this filth.

All pringels are shitty. All of them are disgusting.

So when did Pizza Pringels get disgusting, at conception.