Pringles may be the best snack food on the planet.

I am convinced the secret of Pringles lies in the container. It makes you want to eat them. First off it’s covered with delicious looking pictures all over it. You’ve got the friendly looking guy you look who’s shaped a bit like a Pringles. I’m not sure what he’s supposed to be, but if he was covered in salt and vinegar, I’d eat him. Then you’ve got the chips being sprinkled with salt and vinegar or maybe they’re being slathered with garlic and onion. Either way it’s delicious. The shape of the can is the real genius here. It’s round, sturdy and just begging to be used in some sort of project. Something cool like a throne maybe. But, the really clever part is your hand can’t quite fit inside of there. You have to work for your snacks. Those chips are sitting in there just out of reach taunting you. Daring you try to thrust your hand in to the abyss. But you can never get them all. You can get maybe three or four and that’s just not enough. So you have to dive back in there.

Once you manage to get them out there is something oh so satisfying about eating them. It’s like the perfect revenge. They taunt you by keeping their delicious bodies just out of reach and you retaliate by crushing them into a thousand tiny pieces and banishing them to your stomach. Who hasn’t pretended they’re some sort of half-man half-duck who is so hungry they resort to eating their own bill?

All that and they’re only a buck a can and you’ve got a winning combination. My one complaint: The can doesn’t really pop.

~crunch~ mmmmmmmm….

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