Pringles Tube Designer Buried In Pringles Tube

by Earl Morningstarr

Fredric J. Baur, of Cincinnati was the original designer of the Pringles potato snack packaging tube. He died on May 4 this year aged 89, and his family honoured his request to be buried one of the Pringle tubes he was so proud of designing.

A small quantity of his ashes were placed inside one of the tubes, and some in a regular urn and then buried in a grave in a Springfield cemetery.

Baur worked for Procter & Gamble as a food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control. He designed the iconic tubes in 1966 and was granted the patent for it in 1977.

Comment

Read All Comments

Leave a comment:

FEATURES AND ARTICLES

Celebrity Dead or Alive Game
Try this quiz to see if you can identify which of these famous celebrities are still alive and which are entertaining the underworld.

Speak Your Brains
Have your say in our superb forum.

Competition
This month we’re giving one lucky reader a bottle of absinthe!

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR LATEST NEWS HEADLINES VIA EMAIL

SIGNUP FOR EMAIL DELIVERY HERE:

POP CULTURE NEWS

‘The Sandman’ television show going into development
Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman comic books are set to become a television show, planning and development have begun the early stages.

Amy Pond to die
Unconfirmed reports are flying around the interwebs saying that Doctor Who actress Karen Gillan will be leaving the show part way through the next series.

Sylvester McCoy ‘Hobbit’ update
Sylvester McCoy has broken his silence on the Hobbit casting rumours surrounding him.

Pringles Tube Designer Buried In Pringles Tube

THE MORNINGSTARR* © 2006-2010