It’s official: Not only is pringles a food product, but it is a potato food product. That is the ruling of
Britain’s Supreme Court of Judicature which ruled with Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs and against Procter & Gamble U.K.. Just in case you thought this was small potatoes, the ruling means that Proctor & Gamble owes $160 million in taxes.
The company argued like an army of Philadelphia lawyers: insisting that Pringles are not potato chips and thus not potato products . . . and thus not part of a potato based exception from taxation. That might come as a surprise (or not) to Pringle consumers. It turns out that only forty percent of a Pringle is potato ( I am assuming that Pringles the plural refers to a collective of individual — albeit identical — pringle chips). The rest appears to come from a pringle animal slaughtered in captivity.
Lord Justice Robin Jacob rejected the argument, noting in true British fashion: ‘“a marmalade made using both oranges and grapefruit would be made of neither — a nonsense conclusion.” He further noted that thi is a simple matter of potato logic and “not one calling for or justifying overelaborate, almost mind-numbing legal analysis.”
Pringles usually is successful from the first nibble. Hence their slogan: Once you pop the fun doesn’t stop. Once you pop you can’t stop.” Well, Lord Justices it seems don’t pop.
For the full story, click here.
Mespo,
Some British humor I can say I do not get, understand or . . . .
Are you awaiting the arrival of the Turley Daily Reprieve or the Turley Daily T..D.
I have an Enquiring mind and I wanna know.
From the article:
“He [Lord Justice Robin Jacob] was even more dismissive of Procter & Gamble’s argument that to be taxable a product must contain enough potato to have the quality of “potatoness.” This “Aristotelian question” of whether a product has the “essence of potato,” he insisted, simply cannot be answered.
In the Pringles litigation, three levels of British courts engaged in a classic debate over line-drawing, a staple of first-year law school classes. At some point, a potato-chip-like item is so different from a potato chip that it can no longer be called one — but when? Lord Justice Jacob invoked the wisdom of Justice Holmes: “A tyro thinks to puzzle you by asking you where you are going to draw the line and an advocate of more experience will show the arbitrariness of the line proposed by putting cases very near it on one side or the other.”
In other words, sometimes you just have to call them as you see them.”
“Potatoness,” I love British humor.
Obama can go to HELL 1, June 1, 2009 at 8:38 pm
Noting that time is of the essence, U.S. Judge Robert Gerber gave interim approval to the Detroit-based automaker’s use of a total of $33.3 billion in taxpayer funding grants for use over the next three weeks.
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This is not ok, Banks ok? Hummmm
Why?
Breaking: Soldier murdered in Arkansas by Muslim convert & opponent of military
June 1, 2009
A gunman with a rifle targeted a military recruitment office today in Little Rock, Arkansas, killing one of the recruiters and wounded another.
Police Lt. Terry Hastings said the recruiter was shot when a man in a black SUV opened fire on the office in west Little Rock at about 10:30 a.m.
Update: More here from KATV:
Authorities say the incident occurred around 10:00 a.m. at a U.S. Army Navy Career Center inside the Ashley Square Shopping Center at 9112 North Rodney Parham Road. According to Lt. Terry Hastings with the Little Rock Police Department, two enlisted soldiers standing outside the office were hit when the suspect drove up and began shooting.
Police have identified the shooter as Carlos Bledsoe. A Muslim convert who said he was opposed to the U.S. military.
Noting that time is of the essence, U.S. Judge Robert Gerber gave interim approval to the Detroit-based automaker’s use of a total of $33.3 billion in taxpayer funding grants for use over the next three weeks.
I am sure that all of the fine dining restaurants will be adding this fare to menu. And the menu would be, Hot Pringles, Baked Pringles, 1-Pringle, 2-Pringle 3-Pringle and more, Stuffed Pringles, Pickled Pringles, Cheesy Pringles.
Can you zest up the McDonalds Menu while your at it. Fine Dining at McDonalds, Candle Lite Tables for Two. But whats a family to do?
Maybe pringles can now fall into this catergory of ‘FINE’ foods.
http://villageofjoy.com/15-strange-meals-of-the-world-part-i/
if so that number would go to 16.
Sounds like the U.S. Tax Court … they walk a mile to go around and avoid the obvious some times.
http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-is-it-busiest-tax-court.html
Soylent Spring Green is the color of your liver after you eat Pringles.
Soylent Yellow is the writers for the National Enquirer?
Bron98
1, June 1, 2009 at 1:38 pm
“Pringles are soylent green”
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We must pass down the history precisely:
Pringles are Soylent Yellow; Soylent Green is people 🙂
AY,
Silly rabbit! Kitchens are for cooking. Laboratories are for mad scientists trying to destroy/rule the world or reanimating corpse parts during inclement weather . . . oh, and making Pringles.
eniobob,
Might I suggest hip-waders?
AY & Buddah:
I have note now on my desktop,to remind me to wear “BOOTS” and roll up my “CUFFS” on pants for it gets very high and thick here on mondays.ROFLMAO!!!
Well, Buddha, Like that guy that invented the internet and that guy before him that invented that incandescent glowing fire, I must go back to the laboratory. I just wonder that the statement I read that if first you do not succeed then maybe skydiving is not for you. Do you think that there is any sustainable logic to that statement? If you did disagree, try it and get back to me. . . .
AY,
Bees are a biological organism making honey by biochemical process. You can’t make honey from scratch but a bee does it well. Potatoes made into chips are a natural product in their base form you can make in your kitchen consisting of potato, salt and residual oil. You can make potato chips but a bee would play Hell turning on the burner much less prepping them taters.
Make a Pringle in your kitchen from scratch then get back to me in re food logic.
Better yet, if you can convince bees to make Pringles in the comb (pre-canned? Note to self – contact the Pringles people) then I’ll stand an applaud.
Pringles=Potato Bee Spit=Honey hows that for logic. But then again you can just eat one. So maybe it is not really either.
P&G=ouch!!
I’ve always thought that Pringles were pre-chewed into a thin potato slurry, then spat and pressed into a chip-shaped mold.
Pringles are soylent green.
The process for creating Pringles is called reverse alchemy. It involves taking an actual food product and rendering into a non-food product using secret incantations and well known chemical additives. In case of xombie attacks (as seen on “28 Days Later”, as long as there are Pringles in the stores, humans will survive.