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The guy who invented the can that holds pringles has died. He was actually buried (his ashes)in a pringles can! NICE!




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[quote]Originally posted by phillyidol
[br]The guy who invented the can that holds pringles has died. He was actually buried (his ashes)in a pringles can! NICE!
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That's going to be a damned rude awakening for at least one customer.

[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[quote]Originally posted by phillyidol
[br]The guy who invented the can that holds pringles has died. He was actually buried (his ashes)in a pringles can! NICE!
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That's going to be a damned rude awakening for at least one customer.
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Was there an expiration date on the can?



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Original or Cheese Flavor [:o)]

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It was his ashes so I would say BBQ flavored.




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<a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1811730,00.html">Regular, though there was a bit of a debate beforehand.</a>

Fredric Baur dreamed up the original Pringles can. Now he's buried in one.

In 1966, Baur came up with a clever way for Proctor and Gamble to stack chips uniformly rather than tossing them in a bag. He was so proud of the achievement, he wanted to go to his grave with it. So when Baur died last month, his children buried the 89-year-old's ashes in one of his iconic cans.

"When my dad first raised the burial idea in the 1980s, I chuckled about it," Baur's eldest son Larry, 49, told TIME. Larry Baur quickly realized his father was serious. Family jokes circulated about the Pringles plan, but no one questioned the elder Baur's decision. So when Frederic Baur died after a battle with Alzheimer's, Larry and his siblings stopped at Walgreen's for a burial can of Pringles on their way to the funeral home. "My siblings and I briefly debated what flavor to use," Baur says, "but I said, 'Look, we need to use the original.'"

If there were a junk food hall of fame, the original Pringles can would stand proudly next to a Toblerone pyramid in the exhibit on ingenious packaging shapes. Baur's canister has become a treasured symbol of snack culture around the globe, as recognizable as a Hershey's bar or Coke can from Argentina to Zambia.

"It's all about the inherent beauty and power of uniformity," says Eric Spitznagle, author of The Junk Food Companion. "Every chip looks the same, acts the same."

Not everyone liked the Pringles can when it first hit the market. "People resented it," says Phil Lempert, founder of supermarketguru.com. Uniform chips didn't gel with 1960s-era individualism, he says. "You gave up the fun of eating potato chips, looking for the big ones, the small ones, the ones shaped liked Elvis." Lempert said it took consumers years to appreciate Pringles' uniform size, shape and color. "The Pringles can was a revolution within the realm of snack food," says Baur.

Although Fredric Baur earned a PH.D. in organic chemistry and served in the Navy as an aviation physiologist, the Pringles can proved his biggest hit. At one point Baur engineered a freeze-dried, just-add-milk, ice-cream product called "Coldsnap." Despite a product team that included a young Steve Ballmer, now Microsoft's CEO, the elder Baur achieved more success with his can than the cone.

Baur's Pringles can helped inspire a burst of innovation in supermarket product packaging. In the tradition of the culinary pioneers who transformed Toblerone into a pyramid, cheese into string and doughnut holes into round Munchkins, here are a few post-Baur supermarket design triumphs.

we have a Pringles imitation here called Spuds. No kiddin'

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are they any good?




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[quote][i]Originally posted by empyrean[/i]
<br>we have a Pringles imitation here called Spuds. No kiddin'
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Do you all also believe that Pringles started five years after it actually jumped the shark?

[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
<br>It was his ashes so I would say BBQ flavored.




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The official snack of Ash Wednesday!



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[quote][i]Originally posted by phillyidol[/i]
<br>are they any good?




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Not as good as Pringles but a better alternative since its cheaper.

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[quote][i]Originally posted by Blir[/i]
<br>[quote][i]Originally posted by empyrean[/i]
<br>we have a Pringles imitation here called Spuds. No kiddin'
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Do you all also believe that Pringles started five years after it actually jumped the shark?
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Nope [:D]

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I can't think of many things more addictive than Pringles - God, I love them, but must avoid them. It's hard to do when they're on sale every week 10 for $10....

I used to have a co-worker who brought a can to work every day. Man, that sucked...[:D]

[quote][i]Originally posted by WolverineSyr[/i]
<br>I can't think of many things more addictive than Pringles - God, I love them, but must avoid them. It's hard to do when they're on sale every week 10 for $10....

I used to have a co-worker who brought a can to work every day. Man, that sucked...[:D]
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I love them, too, especially the cheddar-jalapeno flavored ones. However, I mostly stick to Baked Lays. They have a similar texture, and I think they taste similar, too. AND, I don't feel guilty about eating them. [:)] The downside is that they don't come in the can. I like the can!