Pringles, everybody loves them, and their can is also pretty famous all over the world. However, surely being buried in a Pringles can is taking things to a whole new level?
Well, for most people that would certainly be the case, but it’s different when you are the individual that was responsible for designing the iconic container? After all, would you not want to go that extra step and become immortal, buried in the very thing that you designed?
The man in question was Frederic Baur, and back in 1966 he came up with the idea of using a can to allow chips to be stacked on top of one another. This was different than the rest of the versions available at the time, which involved the standard bag, and it helped to make the Pringles brand what it is today.
Upon his death in 2008, at the age of 89, his sons managed to fulfill a request that he had made back in the 1980s, which was to have his ashes buried in a Pringles can. While everyone thought it was a joke, Frederic was dead serious about it, so while on their way to the funeral home after his death, his sons bought a can. What flavor? Well, they argue that it had to be original.
This was one case where he did indeed pop and then had to stop.