People Are Turning Pringles Packaging Into Cool Stuff and We’re Here For It

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One of Pringles’ most distinguishing features is its packaging.

Most potato chips come in bags, but Pringles come in a rigid cylinder out of necessity. Pringles chips aren’t made from sliced potatoes. Instead, they’re formed from potato scratch and other ingredients, which makes them more fragile than your standard-issue chip.

The rigid tubular packaging has also inspired a bevy of DIY projects. Pringles’ cylinders have more utility than a conventional snack bag thanks to their thick cardboard-meets-aluminum construction (the tube’s multi-material nature also makes it highly unrecyclable). It’s as if the packaging is screaming out to be the base of a crafts project.