Pringles
It's from 1968, before you were born.
- Maker
- Kellanova
- Type
- Stacked potato crisps
- Debuted
- 1968
- Note
- mascot Julius Pringles
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About
As of 2026, it's 58 years old.
Pringles looked at the humble potato chip, declared it chaos, and reinvented it as identical saddle-shaped crisps stacked with military precision inside a tall cardboard tube. Every crisp is the same; none of them break; the package doubles as a hand trap once your fingers no longer reach the bottom.
Launched in 1968 with a mustachioed mascot and the dangerously accurate slogan 'Once you pop, you can't stop,' it's technically more potato-dough than potato, a fact the brand has fought about in actual courtrooms.
Curved, uniform, and oddly satisfying, Pringles is the chip that solved problems no one had and won anyway.
Pringles through the years
Introduced
Uniform saddle-shaped crisps stacked in a tall can.
"Once you pop, you can't stop"
The slogan and can make the brand unmistakable.
