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Pringles aren't made like ordinary potato chips

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Calling them potato chips is a biological stretch. They start as a dough made from dehydrated potato flakes, rice flour, and wheat starch. This slurry is rolled out flat, cookie-cut into perfectly uniform aerodynamic saddles, and flash-fried. You are consuming precision-engineered starch geometry specifically designed to stack perfectly in a cardboard tube.

Pringles aren't made like ordinary potato chips
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