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Fantastic Freebies: For the Pringle lover in your life

Filed under: Food, Fantastic Freebies

Every day, WalletPop will be bringing you information about a fantastic freebie. Like what you see? Check back tomorrow for more!

The Pringles National Consumer Advisory Panel invites you to join its email list to receive coupons, free samples and more:

Become the ultimate snacking insider-join our Pringles National Consumer Advisory Panel. As a panel member, you'll be among the first to sample new products and share your opinions. Email communications might come as often as twice a week and include surveys, new product information, and free sample details.

Just fill out this form here. You aren't guaranteed to receive any free stuff right away, so this one's a little different from most Fantastic Freebies. But if you're a fan of Pringles, this is an email list worth joining.

Pringles tube creator dies, buried in potato chip can

Filed under: Food

pringles canI swear this isn't the punchline to a joke. "Where do Pringles tube inventors go when they die??" "Their ashes are buried in a potato chip can!" When 89-year-old retired chemist Dr. Fredric J. Baur gathered his family members to discuss his eventual passing on into the great beyond, he told them he wanted to have his remains buried in the invention of which he was most proud: the Pringles tube.

Dr. Baur was working at Procter and Gamble when the iconic potato flake chip-type product was created, and he designed and obtained the patent for its tube-shaped can. According to his daughter Linda, he considered this his "proudest accomplishment."

The tube is buried (with what didn't fit in the can in a boring ordinary urn) at Arlington Memorial Gardens in Cincinnati, Ohio. Unfortunately, grave decorations at the cemetery are limited to fresh cut flowers placed in vases approved by Arlington, so you may not be able to leave Dr. Baur a bouquet of screamin' dill pickles in a Pringles can.

I was unable to discover which flavor of Pringles Dr. Baur's descendants emptied before filling it with his ashes. Which flavor do you think most represents eternal solitude?