The Man Who Designed the Pringles Can Had His Ashes Buried In A Pringles Can

This really happened.

The man who designed the Pringles potato chips can was so proud of it that he had a portion of his ashes buried in a Pringles can.

Fredric J. Baur, died May 4, 2008, in Cincinnati, Ohio at the age of 89.

Baur's children honored his request to bury him in one of the tall, circular cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles can in his grave in suburban Springfield Township. The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the Pringles can.

Baur was an organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble.

Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked Pringles chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1970. Baur retired from Procter & Gamble in the early 1980s.

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