ONE OF PROCTOR & GAMBLE’s MOST POPULAR innovations was the Pringle’s potato chips.  Those saddle-shaped snack delights that stacked ever-so-neatly in the box so they could survive their trip to your house.

Dr. Frederic J. Baur was a retired organic chemist and food storage technician who specialized in research and development and quality control for Procter & Gamble.  He had many inventions patented in his name over the years of service to P & G.

But Dr. Baur, who died on May 4, was so proud of having designed the container for Pringles potato crisps that he asked his family to bury him in one.

So his children honored his request and put part of his cremated remains in a Pringles can, the rest in a regular urn, and buried them together.

The Cincinnati Enquirer has a nice story about Dr. Baur’s life and some of his inventions HERE.

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