Are these chips loud or corny?

I hadn’t visited the Pringles end of the potato chip aisle in quite a long time, as all that seemed to be happening among those potato crisps was the occasional new flavor (there are now 16).

Thus I hadn’t noticed Pringles Baked Stix whenever they first appeared. That’s not the case with new Pringles LOUD. All five kinds have flavor names suggesting either spiciness or intensity, so that’s what made them a separate line. Not so. Rather than the dried potatoes that are the main ingredient in regular Pringles, the first ingredient in all five LOUD versions is degerminated yellow corn flour. So they’re Corn Crisps.

Oh, do you know the cupcake man?

In looking for an answer to a friend’s definitional question, “The difference between a muffin and a cupcake is intent,” I found Hershey’s Gourmet Filled Muffins. This four-pack of chocolate cakes caused me not to rethink my muffin/ cupcake remark but to aver that the item in question was misnamed. The label reads, “Hershey’s chocolate muffins filled with decadent Hershey’s fudge filling, topped with chocolate icing and decorated with Hershey’s chips.”

Not a word about nutrition or whole grains, but use of the word “decadent.” Clearly that’s dessert, not the kind of abstemious comestible we call a muffin. Confirmation appears in the nutrition label: One of these objects weighs four ounces and contains 450 calories.