Fancy a scented candle this Christmas? How about a candle scented with the delicate aroma of pigs in blankets, strong cheese or Texas BBQ? Well, Pringles is hear to answer your prayers with a product you almost definitely didn’t ask for – meat and cheese flavoured candles.
In the kind of move some (read me) would read as a cynical ploy aimed to make the wafer-thin party snack ‘go viral’, the crisp company has created pigs in blanket, cheesy cheese and Texas BBQ-flavoured candles and sent them to 500 buyers across the UK, to determine whether they should branch out into candle production.
Now, I bloody love pigs in blankets. They are the highlight of any Christmas meal. I even enjoy them cold, and wedged unapologetically into an M&S Christmas sandwich (it’s better than Pret’s, trust me). But a pigs in blanket flavoured candle would inevtiably become the shit Secret Santa gift you laugh about once before tossing in the bin once your colleague has passed out at the office Christmas party.
Pringles’ spokesperson added: ‘The candles are particularly pungent, so we might need to scale back on the odour before unleashing them on a mass scale next year.’
My message to the Pringles spokesperson is this: no-one is going to buy these candles next year once the festive novelty lolz wears off, so stick to making crisps that are most definitely laced with some form of nicotine-like substance and I will continue to mainline at least three packets on Boxing Day.
Also ‘Merry Pringles’ doesn’t make sense as a slogan.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.