It is a limited edition flavor, and one girl brought it along. And then debate ensued. I'm talking shouting, laughing, lots of hand gestures and a whole lot of awkward faces. I wish I could have recorded it. Pecan pie pringles is very interesting, to say the least. While one guy said it was unexpected (and hence, disgusting- I think most of the guys stated they would never ever have another), I actually have to say, with a name like Pecan Pie flavor, it is sort of expected, but still not exactly pleasant. I'm pretty neutral about the flavor. You bite into it and you get the crunch, and then you get the sweetness. Again, with a name of pecan pie, you should expect it to be sweet, like desert right? So I would say it's expected that it tastes sweet. It kind of tastes like crunchy maple syrup. Which I think sounds better than it is. Mostly because you expect chips to be salty, so when they taste like maple syrup, it's just awkward, which is why I think most of the people there found the chips to be disgusting.
The arguments people game up with for and against these chips were quite hilarious though, spanning whether limited edition flavors/foods were because they were too good to have all the time or because they are a horrific failure to the Pringles motto of "once you pop the fun don't stop" and how because of the pleasant aftertaste of the chips you had to follow the Pringles motto and continuously eat the chips because the initial bite is disgusting but the aftertaste was good so you have to keep popping those chips to stay in aftertaste mode.
As weird as it sounds, the most exciting thing about arguing about Pringles was that for once, we were excited about something either than medicine. As medical students, our lives are now about the hospital, our rotations, interesting patients (the good and bad and how much they yell at us) and how ridiculously clueless we feel pretty much all the time. So when someone asks, "how's it going?" that's pretty much all we have to talk about. So it was actually quite refreshing to talk about something non-medicine related, although I think admittedly we went a little overboard, literally yelling for half an hour about chips, of all things.
But back to the topic, Pecan Pie Pringles. Above all else, I think it definitely wins for weirdest flavor, in a not so great way. And this is coming from a Canadian, where we have some weird flavors up there. But those I would say are weird in a good way. All Dressed Chips cannot be beat. Pecan Pie Pringles? Definitely can be, by pretty much any other flavor. But maybe you should be the judge.
