Pringles Can Inventor Buried In Pringles Can

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.

Comments

[Sundialsvc4]

Hey, why not?!

[larryfishkorn]

Well, once you pop, you can't stop...

even from beyond the grave!

[rucognizant]

The comments on Huffpo whether serious news or not, are becoming pretty intense, witty, zany,clever, with a slight tinge of hysteria.
AM I witnessing a mass case of campain induced PTSD?

[overdahill]

When a wingnut blogger dies do their ashes get stuffed in a Cheeto's bag?

[tcagle]

If that is your wish, I'm sure we can save one for you.

[noneIn2008]

A true inventor and engine of progress. There is commitment to and love of your inventions.

[Mort]

What did they do with the crumbs?

[UncleJimbo]

I once told my little Brother that Pringles were made by thousands of old ladies chewing up real potato chips,then spitting the mush into pringle molds and baked! He never ate another one!

[whsmith]

God bless him for inventing a way to keep my Pringles perfectly stacked for all these years. All of you who are bashing Pringles are now officially dead to me. Personally I say this calls for a can of Pringles, in silence.

[SouthpawSass]

I remember when they first came out sometime in the 70's. I teenager who thought they were freaking, especially at the beach. Now that I'm a mother, I don't buy that sort of thing, but I wouldn't turn one down if offered. Or two, or three, or half the tube... See, that's why I don't buy them.

[wm1066]

Good visual!
Thanks.

[SouthpawSass]

Okay, my keyboard is skipping 'cause I'm getting typos up the ying yang... My apologies.

Should read: "I was a teenager who thought they were freaking awsome..."

[doug108]

Pringles suck. They're a wanton and willful waste of perfectly good potatoes.

[whsmith]

they don't use whole potatoes - only pulverized potato scraps.... waste not want not?

[Mr Grey]

How apropos! Pringles help me survive college cafeteria food. In my tiny dorm room vertical storage was all I had left, and the Pringles can was a constant fixture.

[chromodynamics]

Phew! For a moment, I thought fame writer Gene Wolf had died. Not only did he have a hand in the development of the famed potato extrusion snack, he looks something like the mustached character on the container.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Wolfe

[PuffAndStuff]

Kinda funny. Kinda Bizarre.

[Big0725]

Good God Almighty I love people like this!

[DaOne]

I heard Terry McAuliffe is going in a bottle of of Captain Morgan's.

[Big0725]

I think a tube of Preparation H would be more appropriate, wouldn't you?

[DaOne]

touche!

[dadw5boys]

He was a fresh old dude anyway. Still is apparently.

[inthecolour]

Creepy.