Techotic

Dr Fredric J. Baur, the designer of the Pringles tube has died at the age of 89. He was so proud of having designed the tube for Pringles potato crisps that he asked his family to bury him in one when he dies.

They honored his request by having his ashes buried in a Pringles tube – and a more conventional urn for the overflow – at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Dr Baur, who was a retired chemist and food storage technician at Pringles owners Procter and Gamble, patented the design for the saddle-shaped crisp’s vertical container in 1970.