Designer of Pringles can is buried in his invention
Source: CNN:
The man who designed the Pringles potato chip packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.
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Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, Ohio.Baur’s children honored his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave in suburban Springfield Township.
Baur was an organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble Co. Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1970.
