Once you pop, you cant stop!

What is hyperbolic paraboloid shaped and pops when you open them? PRINGLES! My all time favorite potato chip in the world! Although legally you're not supposed to call them chips, they're "potato crisps" and according to the label each cylindrical can should contain 100 crisps! Intriqued by this claim I decided to take it upon myself to challenge the so called "100 crisps" in every can and bought the sour cream and onion kind. I began tallying up each chip I would eat, however I failed quickly. They were just too good and my mind went astray completely forgetting I was conducting an experiment!

The following day I was more determined than ever and went and bought myself another can! This time I taped the bright yellow paper I was keeping count on to the can itself as a reminder that this was no snack but a scientific study! It started off slow at first feeling like 10 crisps were actually 50! I only ate 41 in one day, for some reason I couldn't eat more.

The next morning I went to work with my Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips, as they were once called, and began eating some more. I consumed about another 40 because when I returned home again I had a total of 82 crisps tallied up. I was filling my mother in on my experiment and as I was showing her the can I noticed right below the "100 crisps in every can" there was very very VERY small white print that was barely ledgible. As most of you know my vision isn't very good so I literally grabbed a magnifying glass and noticed the fine print! *On Average.

Oh no! Could this be?! Julius Pringle had decieved me! I felt him laughing at me through his mustache saying, "you fool, of course there isn't 100 crisps in here!" I felt duped. Losing all hope I turned to my sister and told her, "You always have to read the fine print, even with Pringles" So I poured out the remaining crisps onto a napkin and began counting. 83, 84, 85.....97, 98...wait a minute! 99! What's this? Crumbs! Lots and lots of crumbs! Could all those crumbs make up the final 100th crisp! I will probably never know for sure but I counted it. 100.

So for all you Pringles enthusiasts out there, don't lose hope. Love the less than 50% potato content as much as it loves you. Who knows, you might just end up getting buried in one of the cans. It has happened before, google it!

Well, thank you for reading. I will leave you with some fun Pringles trivia courtesy of Wikipedia. The cans have been used for Wi-Fi network antennas known as "cantennas" and you may also make party poppers out of the empty can! G'day!