Pringles Can Designer Dies, Buried In a Pringles Can

n3hat sends along an item from the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles... that he asked his family to bury him in one. His children honored his request. Part of his remains was buried in a Pringles can — along with a regular urn containing the rest... Dr. Baur, a retired organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble, died May 4 at 89... He developed many products, including frying oils and a freeze-dried ice cream, for P&G... But the Pringles can was his proudest accomplishment, his daughter said. He received a patent for the package as well as the method of packaging Pringles in 1970."

Comments

Re:Someone had to say it...

[A Pancake]

Mitch Hedberg was awesome.

Re:My wife was his real estate agent...

[felipekk]

I wish I had mod points.

And how many have died?

[LM741N]

From the resultant "Pringles Syndrome" heart disease?

Here is their Secret formula (shh, don't tell anyone): Take 1lb of lard, add 1 oz potato mash, fry, put in can, profit!!

What is this, bizarro Slashdot?

[reidconti]

An Ask Slashdot question where the person in question actually contacted experts directly to try to get his questions answered BEFORE asking slashdot?

Re:!chips

[billcopc]

Yet another sign that the U.S. legal system has its head so far up its own ass, they found alien life.