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+-   Pringles can designer dies, buried in Pringles can on Saturday May 31 2008, @10:16AM n3hat

Submitted by n3hat on Saturday May 31 2008, @10:16AM
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n3hat writes "From the Cincinnati Enquirer:
Dr. Fredric J. Baur was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles potato crisps 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 — in his grave at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Springfield Township.

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.

Here's the full obit."
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