TIL the inventor of the Pringles can, Dr. Fredric Baur, was so proud of his design that he requested his ashes be buried in one. His kids stopped at Walgreens on the way to the funeral home to buy the can. They briefly debated the flavor and went with "Original."
Dr. Fredric Baur was an organic chemist at Procter & Gamble who in 1966 solved one of snack food's biggest problems chips getting stale in bags. His solution was the iconic cylindrical Pringles can, which stacked chips uniformly and kept them fresh.
He was so proud of this invention that in the 1980s he told his family he wanted to be buried in one. They laughed. He didn't.
When Baur passed away in 2008 at age 89 after a battle with Alzheimer's, his children honoured the wish. On the way to the funeral home, they stopped at a Walgreens, picked up a can of Pringles, and placed part of his ashes inside. The rest went into a traditional urn buried alongside it.
His son Larry said they briefly debated which flavour to use. He ended the debate quickly: "We need to use the Original."
Every time you pop open a Pringles can, you're using the invention of a man literally resting inside one.