Much to my amazement, it's been brought to my attention that there exist are a great number of folks wholly unfamiliar with the proper method of eating Pringles chips, even though they've been around since, what? The 70's? (take a look at their 70's hairstyle logo, recently updated to be more 'hip.')
Believe it or not, there is a right and wrong way of doing this - assuming, of course, that your purpose for eating the nutritionally useless 'food' is nothing other than satisfying your taste buds. Hunger and boredom do not count.
It's a poorly kept secret that snack companies are cheap bastards, and, as a result, they tend to skimp on anything they can (don't be a hater - you would, too). If you carefully examine any chip-like snack, you'll likely notice that the flavoring on most are not distributed equally.
In fact, quite frequently only one side is covered with the flavoring at all, requiring chip-like snack aficionados to examine both sides of each chip-like snack prior to eating. This allows one to place the well-coated side face down on the tongue and maximize the chip-like snack's tasty sensations.
Luckily, Pringles take care of this problem for us: They have readily distinguishable sides, and always have the flavor-coating on one. Their choice of sides, however, is ergonomically unfortunate. For some S&M-like reason, they felt it necessary to put the flavoring on the side of the chip that is the most difficult for one's tongue to access.
So if you want to get the benefit of the flavoring (and taste something other than "Original Flavor" which is a waste of space), then you have to flip the thing to it's least convenient entry arrangement, and try not to stab the roof of your mouth with the sharp edges as it cracks into a million little shards of yummy. This, combined with the already hazardous packaging, leads some to believe they employed Al Qaeda in their QC department.
Such are the sacrifices we must make for our taste buds.
