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The strangest last request in the snack aisle
When packaging designer Fredric J. Baur died in 2008, part of his cremated remains went into a Pringles can. This sounds like a joke written by the internet, but his children confirmed the arrangement to the Associated Press. Baur was proud of his pioneering work on the now-iconic tubular container.
Inventor, patent, and a family promise
Baur, a chemist and food-storage specialist for Procter & Gamble, sought a patent for the design and packaging method in 1966; it was granted in 1970. Decades later, his family honored a request they had long known about, placing some ashes inside the cylinder and burying it with other remains.
Immortality, but make it shelf-stable
The can did not promise literal life after death. It became something stranger and more human: a personal monument to a life’s work, made from a familiar household object. The linked TikTok is a prompt for this independently documented historical account, not an independently verified transcript.
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