Egyptians buried pharaohs in elaborate sarcophagi with gold and jewels to take to the afterlife. Fancy indeed, but when you're Fredric Baur, creator of the nifty Pringles potato crisp container, an empty snack tube seems a much cozier place to spend eternity.
Baur's children honored his final request by placing part of his cremated ashes in the Pringles container he invented in order to bury it beside an urn with his remains. Baur received the patent for the snack-packaging container in ...