# 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:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/21 "2008-06-03T15:22:58Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] Will his ashes stay fresh and crisp? [/QUOTE] If it were up to me I’d have had the ashes mixed with epoxy and shaped like pringles. They’d stack nicely and heck, everybody could take one home as a souvenir. Okay, maybe not. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/22 "2008-06-03T15:26:41Z")
A little creepy, a little funny. I read awhile back that Pringle’s chips are made from a liquefied potato slurry that’s dried, reconstituted and pressed into the shape that gets them into the can. And yet I love them! :eek: ---
**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, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/23 "2008-06-03T15:36:21Z")
Huh. I always thought they were genetically engineered into that particular shape. ---
**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, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/24 "2008-06-03T18:24:05Z")
[QUOTE=photopat] If it were up to me I’d have had the ashes mixed with epoxy and shaped like pringles. They’d stack nicely and heck, everybody could take one home as a souvenir. [/QUOTE] Hell, why not. You could make up a corpse ash slurry and process it right on the Pringles line. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/25 "2008-06-03T18:58:24Z")
[QUOTE=Scumpup] My wife’s family back in Ukraine is crazy for Pringles. [/QUOTE] They’ve got the fever for the flavor… I wonder what flavor the guy was buried in. BBQ seems most appropriate. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/26 "2008-06-03T19:13:26Z")
Any truth to the rumor that his wife intends to be buried in a French Onion Dip carton next to him? ---
**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, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/27 "2008-06-03T19:16:22Z")
And I suppose that the inventor of M&Ms intends to be buried in a hard candy shell. ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/28 "2008-06-03T19:31:57Z")
[QUOTE=JThunder] And I suppose that the inventor of M&Ms intends to be buried in a hard candy shell. [/QUOTE] And afterwards he’ll melt in your mouth, but not in your hand? What else? Oreo inventor buried in center plot of communal grave which is three spaces deep? Coca-Cola founder sprayed all over mourner’s hands and shirts? Perrier founder buried at sea? Post-It note inventor still sticking around? Enjoy, Steven ---
**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, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/29 "2008-06-03T20:17:14Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] A little creepy, a little funny. I read awhile back that Pringle’s chips are made from a liquefied potato slurry that’s dried, reconstituted and pressed into the shape that gets them into the can. And yet I love them! :eek: [/QUOTE] You should be warned that BREAD, yes BREAD, is formed of wheat slurry that’s been pressed into the shape of a loaf pan so it fits in the plastic bag. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2008, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/30 "2008-06-03T21:02:59Z")
[QUOTE=Sage Rat] You should be warned that BREAD, yes BREAD, is formed of wheat slurry that’s been pressed into the shape of a loaf pan so it fits in the plastic bag. [/QUOTE] But that’s the only way to make bread. There are other, more traditional ways of making potato chips. ---
**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, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/31 "2008-06-03T21:38:48Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] But that’s the only way to make bread. There are other, more traditional ways of making potato chips. [/QUOTE] Yeah, but there’s nothing gross about munching something up and making a dough or other mass out of it, then shaping it. Besides bread, there’s chocolate, sausages, candies, etc. If you remove the “shaping” factor, you’ve got pretty much every sauce there is and most soups. (Personally I find the taste of traditional potato chips yucky.) ---
**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 4, 2008, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/32 "2008-06-04T00:06:23Z")
I just bought my memorial can of Sour Cream 'n Onion Pringles for $.88, yum! RIP, Mr. Baur. ---
**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 4, 2008, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/33 "2008-06-04T03:48:42Z")
[QUOTE=sandra\_nz] 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? [/QUOTE] The wife is crazy about them but nibbles. She’s amazed that not only can I pop a whole one into my mouth, I can pop a stack several chips high into my mouth, too. ---
**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 4, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/34 "2008-06-04T03:50:12Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] I just bought my memorial can of Sour Cream 'n Onion Pringles for $.88, yum! RIP, Mr. Baur. [/QUOTE] Damn! They’re about US$1.85 here. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/35 "2008-06-04T04:19:52Z")
I hate to think of how they’re going to bury the inventor of the Pez dispenser. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/36 "2008-06-04T04:23:38Z")
[QUOTE=Green Bean] I hate to think of how they’re going to bury the inventor of the Pez dispenser. :eek: [/QUOTE] What they’ll bury him in, or what they’ll _make him into?_ ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/37 "2008-06-04T05:47:01Z")
I like Pringle’s, I really do. But, I hated the commercials where they had kids grabbing a whole stack and biting into them and letting most of it crumble out of their mouths and fall to the ground. Hey, buy Pringles, let half of it fall out of your stupid mouth! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2008, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/38 "2008-06-04T05:55:07Z")
Well He popped. And apparently, he can stop. Yes. I was surprised no one said this joke yet either. ---
**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 7, 2008, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586/39 "2008-06-07T15:05:35Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] Damn! They’re about US$1.85 here. ☹ [/QUOTE] Woo hoo! Found Pringle’s on sale at one of our regular supermarkets today for 49 baht, which is about US$1.23. Bought some memorial Regular and Sour Cream 'n Onion cans in memory of Fredric J Baur, along with some new flavor called Wildspice, to try that. Wildspice is not very spicy, though. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/designer-of-the-pringles-can-is-buried-in-a-pringles-can/451586.md?page=1)