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Man in the can. I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Leap.

And this is Ghost Town.

And this is Ghost Town. In 1966, organic chemist and food storage scientist Fred Bauer came up with a very clever way to buy and consume chips,

uniformly in a tube rather than tossing them into a flimsy, unwieldy bag.

The product, you might have guessed, was the answer to snacking in our crazy world, the iconic

Pringles tube, a dispenser of stacked and flavored chips. The Bower went on to do other things in his life,

the Pringle's Can was his crowning achievement, and he was so proud of his invention

that he went to the grave with it. Today on Ghost Town, the bizarre burial of Fred Bauer.

Frederick John Bauer Jr. was a Cincinnati boy through and through. Born July 14, 1918, Bauer. Frederick John Bauer Jr. was a Cincinnati boy through and through. Born July 14,

1918, Bauer was a graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio, and received both his

master's and Ph.D. degrees at Ohio State University. After serving in the U.S. Navy as an aviation

physiologist, he moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he got married and started a family.

He also got a job at the Cincinnati-based Proctor and Gamble. There, he engineered a new chip that was named after a random street in Cincinnati.

The Pringle. Bauer used a hydrated flour to make the chip that was shaped like a kind of saddle.

Every chip was uniform, perfect in its tube, the same flavor and size, so every chip could be enjoyed

equally. Pringles didn't look at all like the potato chips in the store. It was packaging forward

more than any other chip, with the resellable

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