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The US designer who invented the Pringles tube was so proud of his achievement he’s been buried in one. Fredric J Baur asked for some of his ashes to be put in a tube and interred in a grave in his home city of Cincinnati.

Baur, who died at 89, created the tube and the curved system for stacking the potato snacks inside it in 1966. Baur’s children honoured his request to bury him in one of the cans by placing part of his cremated remains in a Pringles container in his grave.

The rest of his remains were placed in an urn buried along with the can, with some placed in another urn and given to a grandson, said Baur’s daughter Linda.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .