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From The Times
June 3, 2008

Pringles can designer is buried in his own work

Sour Cream and Onion Pringles

Cincinnati The man who designed the Pringles potato crisp tube was so proud of his accomplishment that some of his ashes have been buried in one of the iconic tall, circular cans. Fredric J. Baur died at Vitas Hospice in Cincinnati, on May 4. He was 89. A portion of his ashes was also placed in an urn and buried in his grave alongside the can. The rest of the ashes were put in another urn and given to his grandson. (AP)

If you covered his ashes in the same amount of MSG as they put on Pringles you would eat them too.
Mmmm phosphate.

Tom Breslau, Sheffield, UK

Have you seen the 'fantasy coffins' in Ghana? They are fantastic.
Originating with the coastal Ga tribe, these carved coffins have been featured on the BBC, NPR, and a Sept 94 article in the National Geographic! Check them out at: http://www.eshopafrica.com/acatalog/Ga_Coffins.html

Deirdre Considine, Oxford, UK

Once you pop your socks, you just cannot stop?

rebecca , kettering,

Wouldn't it be funny if in, say, 200 years a person were to dig up the grave and find the can of 'pringles',? He wouldn't be able to tell the difference if they were crisps or ashes at all, unless he took them ot a lab. What if he ate them?
"Sour Cream and Onion? This tastes like smoky bacon,"

shandy cartley, uttoxeter, england

Well, they probably taste better than Pringles, anyway.

Sue, Pontypridd, Wales

Hmm, I wonder what that grit was in my last pack of Sour Cream and Onion Pringles?

Deepak, Wayland, USA

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