Posted on 06/02/2008 7:46:11 PM PDT by anonsquared
CINCINNATI - The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp packaging system was so proud of his accomplishment that a portion of his ashes has been buried in one of the iconic cans.
Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati, died May 4 at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, his family said. He was 89.
Baur's children said they 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. The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to a grandson, said Baur's daughter, Linda Baur of Diamondhead, Miss.
Baur requested the burial arrangement because he was proud of his design of the Pringles container, a son, Lawrence Baur of Stevensville, Mich., said Monday.
Baur was an organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Cincinnati-based 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, P&G archivist Ed Rider said.
Baur retired from P&G in the early 1980s.
Now I know why they taste funny!
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Lets just let the chips fall where they will.
RIP
they make ok directional antennas.
My college roommate used to hide something else in the bottom
of that can.
What do you do, poke a hole in the bottom and stick the antenna through?
Don’t ask, don’t tell.
RIP.
Nope. Too weird would be if they honored his request to be baked into the chips...
not quite that simple, but here’s link to cantennas :
http://www.turnpoint.net/wireless/cantennahowto.html
wonder which part of him ended up in the can...
Cool, thanks!
They buried him in a tennis ball can?
That’s weird, but then I wonder how many bikers have gone this route...
Bikers Can Get Unusual Burial Transportation
Custom-Made Side Car Carries Caskets
http://www.kirotv.com/news/1440683/detail.html
I wonder what they served at the reception after the burial?
Nope, they buried him in a version of a tennis ball can that will keep him fresher.
Lays.
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