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Old 06-03-2008, 08:55 AM
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pringles are great, but not that great

Pringles can designer buried in his work - Food Inc. - MSNBC.com
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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
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Old 06-03-2008, 09:35 AM
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Here's a stupid peice of trivia you need clogging your brain. Dennis Gage of the show "My Classic Car" on the Speed Channel invented Pringles. He' the guy with the handlebar stach on the package!

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I've been holding that info in for years waiting for just the right moment to release it!
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