There is no way the design took two years and required supercomputers

wonder what kinda of supercomputer they used in 1968

With the stuff about 'super computers', this seems more like a shitpost than a science meme.

Completely leaves out that you can use two of them to make yourself look like a duck

What “supercomputer” did they use in 1968 to make the chip shape when Pringles were invented?

Edit:

My digging around has resulted in this find:

https://lemmy.world/comment/11712354

Somehow they also designed them so the tube goes stale roughly 2 minutes after opening it. Also the lovely texture reminiscent of sawdust. Truly a marvel of engineering.

Personally, it always decreased satisfaction that it breaks unpredictably, because I'd get crumbs everywhere. In particular, the shape also hinders putting them far enough into your mouth to catch the crumbs.
Definitely prefer chips which are just sliced potatoes. Them being a naturally grown structure makes them unpredictable enough for my taste.

Also abot 10-15% of thr chips crumble at the bottom to cushion the rest of the pringles

This meme is wrong and likely based on a Reddit post that is itself wrong.

“TIL that in the '50s P&G used a supercomputer for designing Pringles…”

The only source I found referencing pringles association with a supercomputer was a 2007 article with this sentence:

Pringles potato chips are designed using [supercomputing] capabilities -- to assess their aerodynamic features so that on the manufacturing line they don't go flying off the line," said Dave Turek, vice president of deep computing at IBM.)

Pringle’s didn’t exist until 1968. Why would they waste a decade’s worth of supercomputing time (per the Reddit post that they were designed in the “‘50s using a supercomputer”) to design a potato chip?

It does not state that the chips were designed in ‘68 with a supercomputer. It directly states that “today’s supercomputers”…”are creating potato chips”, so their current design was done that way for the purposes of expedited manufacturing processes.

The Reddit posts even links to the article stating that the reference for supercomputer usage in Pringle’s design is modern.

The Supermarine Spitfire.
The London Metro map design.
The Pringles potato chip.

I had read that they create downforce so they stay put on a conveyor

I remember reading somewhere that they also deliberately put different amounts of flavorant on each side of the chip so that you can choose to have more or less flavor intensity based on which side you place against your tongue.

They should be smaller though, so they fit in one piece into the mouth withouth hurting yourself.

It's an all-sided showel for sauce, yum.

And I still don't like the shape. I can't bite in it properly.

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You're goddamn right!