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>Gut, das betrifft jetzt eher die USA (und UK), aber ich das war mir wirklich nicht klar bisher:
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>[https://youtu.be/qIUb3bjh42Y]
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>Aber: Diese Geschichte ist arg verkürzt.
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>[https://www.rd.com/article/are-pringles-potato-chips/]
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>The federal government actually stepped in to determine whether Pringles really were potato chips. In 1975, the FDA decided that the company could call Pringles “chips” only if they called out the dried potato ingredient. Instead, Pringles decided to use the term “crisps.”
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>International aber sind Pringles damit technisch gesehen sogar Backwaren:
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>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7490346.stm]
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> But the manufacturer had insisted that their best-selling product was not similar to potato crisps, because of their "mouth melt" taste, "uniform colour" and "regular shape" which "is not found in nature".
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>It also argued that potato crisps - unlike Pringles - did not contain non-potato flours, and were not packaged in tubes.
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>Pringles are more like a cake or a biscuit, it claimed, because they are manufactured from dough.
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>Und damit waren sie Mehrwertsteuer-befreit...
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>Verrückte Welt!