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For Inventor, RIP: Rest in Pringles Can

Posted Jun 2, 08 3:10 PM CDT in Science & Health,  US 

(Newser) – The man who invented the Pringles can is taking the chips' "Once you pop, you can't stop" slogan to eternity, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. Dr. Fredric J. Baur patented the iconic container in 1970 while working for Procter & Gamble, and had long wished to be buried in one; after he died last month at 89, his survivors obliged, interring some ashes in a can and an urn and giving the rest to a grandson.

Sources Cincinnati Enquirer, Associated Press

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