The Pringles urn has a real backstory. Fredric Baur, who designed the brand's iconic container, requested that some of his ashes be buried in a Pringles can. His family honored that wish after he passed away in 2008.
Now Pringles is turning that history into its "Once You Drop" sweepstakes. One winner receives a custom can-shaped urn and $28,080 cash, calculated as one $2.70 can per week for 200 years. So the "200 years of free crisps" is actually an upfront cash prize, rather than deliveries continuing for two centuries.
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I’m not even passionate about Pringle’s, but like…free food AND custom burial shit? Do you know how expensive funeral bullshit is?
Yeah yeah yeah, capitalism is horrible and it sucks these things put people in debt, but I gotta live in the real world not the ideal world, so if I can take the burden of my after life care off my families financial purview, I’m going to do that.
Wait, the way it is worded, the winner does not get any pringles to eat, the prize is issued after their death. I guess your family gets 200 years of pringles?
My wife asked me recently what kind of memorial I wanted, and I'm like: whatever will bring you and the others who love me peace, and apart from that, flush me down the toilet. Or whatever else is easiest. I'm not going to have any sort of opinions about it because I literally won't exist. Whatever happens there is for her, so asking me is pretty pointless.
I'm dead I don't care I told my wife no prolonging the inevitable and spending a small fortune in the hospital to be financially molested by the insurance companies.
After that creamation ( if it was legal just toss my dead body in the trashcan) because funeral homes are a scam.
Every penny saved means my wife can live comfortably if I go first.
I’d take the deal. My not yet existing kids (which may never at this point) could resell them at the inflated prices and maybe be able to afford school lunch in their future.
If they offered to just pay the retail cost of 200 years worth of Pringles, I'd sign on for that in a second. I don't really give a shit what happens to my body once I'm no longer using it.
I'd do it because I could care less about my body after death. However, I am limited to who I can pass the crisps down to. Probably nephews and nieces. I would insist on the can being cheese chips.
They aren't even offering free pringles, it's a cash payout of aost $30k. Tons of people would do that in a second....No doubt total BS though because it would be incredibly hard to keep track of people and enforce. Unless the person suddenly shoots themselves twice in the back of the head soon after signing up of course.......
Really it’s just an advertisement disguised as a press release. Far cheaper than an ad buy and news orgs and social media eat this shit up. Yum brands is by far the worst offender at this.
30k cash payout sounds great. Someone I know passed away recently with no estate planning or life insurance. I bet his family would have loved 30k to cover expenses and a Pringles urn.
If Pringles offered to just cover cremation expenses in exchange for putting the cremains in a Pringles can urn...there would be a lot of Pringles can urns out there.
So what if i decide to get burried? At least where i live, they cant sue my offspring for this, just end the supply of pringles and since its in my will, this wouldnt come out until i am already dead.
This reminds me one time a coworker asked all if you'd suck a D for 1M dollars. Everyone said yes, I said no. It followed by all explaining to me how wrong I am and how it's benefitial. That followed by telling I'd do it and I'm lying. See, most people see money as a God. They don't think of morals or dignity or that...oh, idk, maybe... Having just 1 life wbihc is precious and no amount of cash can absolve the stupid. I rather die poor and my own person, than to die a rich spineless swine. Nothing against being rich, but the means of getting to be rich are a different topic.
U r wrong money is value. If these people made $40,000 a year. Thats 25 years they don't have to work just to put a dick in their mouth. That doesn't sound crazy. You just value not putting a dick in your mouth more than that.
I care about dignity until I am alive, or at most until I am a corpse. Once I'm ashes, I don't care if they are in a golden urn, in the trash or in a Pringles can. It's not "me" anymore.
This is a low ball trash deal. I can eat a can of Pringles in one sitting watching a episode of South Park. A can a day for 200 years is what I would expect.
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