Edible Trivia

This is not just a box of Pringles. It's a box of Printed Pringles (or, as their manufacturers prefer to call them, "Pringle Prints"). Yes, with the new Pringle Printer Technology, you can now eat anyone else's words. And they'll crunch in your mouth, too.

But what practical application could such a comparatively trivial accomplishment have in the real world? I need only turn to the Junk Food News to discover that "P&G" (yes, as in Proctor and Gamble, "leader and founder of the stacked crisp category") is teaming up with Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE: HAS), a worldwide leader in children's and family leisure time entertainment products, to use questions and answers from Trivial Pursuit Junior. Pringles Prints will feature 2,400 fun trivia questions and answers from six different Trivial Pursuit Junior categories (Today & Tomorrow, Music, Movies, Nature, Yesterday and Whatever) randomly printed on the potato crisps. Pringles Prints Trivial Pursuit Junior will be available nationwide in August 2004. Additionally, Pringles Prints Fun Facts, Animal Facts and Jokes will become available in select U.S. retail locations in June and July 2004."

Hmm. What about Politically Printed Pringle Prints? Party-specific Printed Pringle Prints? Or Plain Polemical Printed Pringle Prints? Printed Pringle Prints Study Guides (eat your way to that A)? Printed Pringle Prints Bomb-Building Guides?