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Fred Baur, the inventor of the original Pringles can, was buried in one of them (on his request)

by dreen 6y ago

gerikson 6y ago
Gene Wolfe (the SF author) helped develop the machine to make them. > I was in the engineering development division, and asked to develop mass production equipment to make these chips. And we divided the task into the dough making/dough rolling portion, which was done by Len Hooper, and the cooking portion, which was done by me, and then the pickoff and salting portion, which was done by someone else, and then the can filling/can sealing portion which was done by a man who was almost driven insane by the program. Because he would develop a machine, and he would have it almost ready to go, and they would say "Oh, instead of 300 cans a minute, make it 500 cans a minute." And so he would have to throw out a bunch of stuff, and develop the new machine, and when he got that one about ready, they'd say "make it 700 cans a minute." And they almost put him in a mental hospital. He took his job very seriously and he just about flipped out. https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadrunner.com/~lperson1/wolfe.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadr...
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  Gene Wolfe's job as a plant engineer before he became a full-time author gave him a front-row seat for other low-quality mid-20th-century American processed food. In his novel Peace, it is subtly revealed towards the end of the book that the protagonist’s family business produces Tang (through breaking potatoes down into their starch and then adding flavoring).
binarymax 6y ago
Like, buried in a giant replica of the can as a coffin? Or cremated and put in a normal size can?
- Stratoscope 6y ago
  "Some of Baur's ashes were buried in a Pringles can at his request." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur

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Fred Baur, the inventor of the original Pringles can, was buried in one of them (on his request)

by dreen 6y ago

Fred Baur, the inventor of the original Pringles can, was buried in one of them (on his request)

gerikson 6y ago
Gene Wolfe (the SF author) helped develop the machine to make them. > I was in the engineering development division, and asked to develop mass production equipment to make these chips. And we divided the task into the dough making/dough rolling portion, which was done by Len Hooper, and the cooking portion, which was done by me, and then the pickoff and salting portion, which was done by someone else, and then the can filling/can sealing portion which was done by a man who was almost driven insane by the program. Because he would develop a machine, and he would have it almost ready to go, and they would say "Oh, instead of 300 cans a minute, make it 500 cans a minute." And so he would have to throw out a bunch of stuff, and develop the new machine, and when he got that one about ready, they'd say "make it 700 cans a minute." And they almost put him in a mental hospital. He took his job very seriously and he just about flipped out. https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadrunner.com/~lperson1/wolfe.html https://web.archive.org/web/20090916170648/http://home.roadr...
- Mediterraneo10 6y ago
  Gene Wolfe's job as a plant engineer before he became a full-time author gave him a front-row seat for other low-quality mid-20th-century American processed food. In his novel Peace, it is subtly revealed towards the end of the book that the protagonist’s family business produces Tang (through breaking potatoes down into their starch and then adding flavoring).
binarymax 6y ago
Like, buried in a giant replica of the can as a coffin? Or cremated and put in a normal size can?
- Stratoscope 6y ago
  "Some of Baur's ashes were buried in a Pringles can at his request." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Baur