# Designer of the Pringle's Can Is Buried in a Pringle's Can **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 3, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586 "2008-06-03T04:26:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/1 "2008-06-03T04:26:57Z")
Story [here](http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/06/02/pringles.burial.ap/index.html). Fredric J Baur, 89, of Cincinnati, Ohio. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/2 "2008-06-03T04:47:47Z")
The unique cylndrical can of “Pringle’s New-Fangled Potato Crisps” (as they were originally known) is perhaps one of the most recognizable packages in the food biz, and competitors’ attempts (Lay’s Stax, anyone?) aren’t as space-saving and unique. (And, as Dilbert taught us, they do not make good suitcases.) I’m going to buy some Pringles tomorrow in Fred’s honor. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/3 "2008-06-03T04:53:04Z")
[QUOTE=mobo85] And, as Dilbert taught us, they do not make good suitcases. [/QUOTE] Do they make good coffins, though? ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/4 "2008-06-03T04:53:38Z")
I’m a little disappointed. I thought it would be a giant coffin sized Pringle’s can. ---
**Author:** ![mshar253](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@mshar253](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mshar253)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/5 "2008-06-03T05:05:37Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] I’m a little disappointed. I thought it would be a giant coffin sized Pringle’s can. [/QUOTE] Me too. What a disappointment. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/6 "2008-06-03T07:05:20Z")
I’m not disappointed. I’d want a regular Pringle’s can, too, preferably one that had actually contained chips that had been eaten at my wake. My only disappointment would be that not all of my cremains could fit inside. BTW: I once met a photojournalist who once told me he’d been to deepest, darkest Africa, and they had Pringle’s there. It seems to have become the modern-day Coca-Cola (Coca-Cola itself having once replaced Standard Oil drums as the ubiquitous symbol of American enterprise.) ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/7 "2008-06-03T07:41:19Z")
Wow, for a moment, I thought this thread might be about Gene Wolfe, the inventor of the Pringles oven. ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/8 "2008-06-03T07:58:54Z")
If this isn’t an Onion headline come to life, I don’t know what is. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 8:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/9 "2008-06-03T08:17:59Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] BTW: I once met a photojournalist who once told me he’d been to deepest, darkest Africa, and they had Pringle’s there. It seems to have become the modern-day Coca-Cola (Coca-Cola itself having once replaced Standard Oil drums as the ubiquitous symbol of American enterprise.) [/QUOTE] Possible! Pringles are certainly the only American snack that I could find regularly in Tokyo. Most chips and crackers and whatnot were Japanese-made. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/10 "2008-06-03T08:27:54Z")
[QUOTE=Koxinga] If this isn’t an Onion headline come to life, I don’t know what is. [/QUOTE] I thought it was an urban legend the local crappy radio station had picked up, touching to know its true 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/11 "2008-06-03T11:46:58Z")
Will his ashes stay fresh and crisp? ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/12 "2008-06-03T11:53:56Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Will his ashes stay fresh and crisp? [/QUOTE] With a hint of sour cream and onions. ---
**Author:** ![sandra\_nz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eada6e/32.png) [@sandra\_nz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sandra_nz)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/13 "2008-06-03T11:58:32Z")
Awww that’s a lovely story. I appear to be one of the minority people who don’t like Pringles. They taste like reconstituted potato (which I’m fairly certain they are) and are wider than my mouth. What point is a packet of chips that you can’t stuff your face with, but rather have to daintily nibble at? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/14 "2008-06-03T12:13:13Z")
My wife’s family back in Ukraine is crazy for Pringles. When she goes back to visit them, she always takes a suitcase full of American crap; and Pringles are the item everybody fights over. The first time she went back, she had only a couple small cans of them. She thought they’d be happy to get tuna and other stuff that’s expensive in the markets there. Imagine her surprise when they were less excited over delicacies than they were over a cheap snack food. ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Pushkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/15 "2008-06-03T12:56:23Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] Imagine her surprise when they were less excited over delicacies than they were over a cheap snack food. [/QUOTE] Is that a market waiting to be cornered? ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/16 "2008-06-03T13:03:10Z")
Possibly. They also go berserk over Kit-Kat bars. Inflation seems to be out of control there, however, so I don’t know how much discretionary hyrvnia the average chelovek has to spend on chips and candy bars. A friend recently reported that when she went back to vist her family at holiday time, pork was going for close to $20 a pound. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/17 "2008-06-03T13:59:05Z")
[QUOTE=sandra\_nz] They taste like reconstituted potato (which I’m fairly certain they are) and are wider than my mouth. [/QUOTE] Try starting from the narrow end of the oval. ---
**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/18 "2008-06-03T14:42:22Z")
Am I the only one who finds this vaguely creepy? I mean, I suppose the man can be buried in whatever he wants, but… ---
**Author:** ![ColonelDax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@ColonelDax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ColonelDax)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/19 "2008-06-03T15:10:31Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] My wife’s family back in Ukraine is crazy for Pringles. [/QUOTE] No cite for this, but I’m sure I read somewhere that [Wagon Wheels](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagon_Wheels) were a KGB favorite and it was \*de rigeur \* for any officer who had been posted to London to bring a few boxes on returning to the Soviet Union. ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/20 "2008-06-03T15:22:38Z")
We should hope this trend does not continue until the death of [Zsolt Istvan Hertelendy](http://www.pharmcast.com/Patents/080800OG/6099853_Vaginal080800.htm), also an inventor from Cincinnati, OH… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586.md?page=2)