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TIL that in the US, Pringles used to call themselves “potato chips” until the FDA said they didn’t qualify as chips. In 2008, Pringles tried to argue in UK court that they were exempt from a tax on crisps (the British term for potato chips) because they weren’t crisps. They lost the case.

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