Inventor of Pringles was buried in a tube of potato chips

Fredrik J. Baur, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was so proud of his invention, that he asked after his death to put ashes in the packaging of potato chips. All his life he worked as organic chemist and food technician in the company Procter & Gamble. In 1966, Baur filed for a patent on high tube-packaging and a new method of stacking chips in them curved.

The patent was issued in four years, and Baur was able to retire at the beginning of the 80s, certain that he came up with something really cool. The inventor was so fascinated by his own creation, that wanted to be buried in it. Baur died in May 2008 at the age of 89, and his children performed the request - his ashes were divided between a pair of boxes and packing out of Pringles, which is stored in a coffin in a suburb of Springfield.

Source: en.wikipedia.org

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