Not Quite A Celebrity Death - Robert Mondavi - May 16, 2008

Robert Mondavi - May 16, 2008

Robert Mondavi, the pioneering vintner who helped put California wine country on the map, died at his Napa Valley home Friday. He was 94.

Not Quite A Celebrity Death - Irvine Robbins - May 5, 2008

Irvine Robbins - May 5, 2008

As with Herb Peterson's passing earlier this year, FTANG! doesn't consider this a true "Celebrity Death", and won't post it as such... but it still warrants a mention. Irvine Robbins, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins Ice Cream, has died of complications related to old age. He was 90.

Not Quite A Celebrity Death - Fredric Baur - May 4, 2008

Fredric Baur - May 4, 2008

The designer who invented the Pringles tube was so proud of his achievement that 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 May 4th at the age of 89, created the tube and the curved system for stacking the potato snacks inside it in 1966.

Baur's children honored 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.

Not Quite A Celebrity Death - Herb Peterson - March 25, 2008

Herb Peterson - Inventor of the Egg McMuffin - March 25, 2008

With respect to his family and friends... while FTANG! doesn't consider this a true "Celebrity Death", and won't post it as such... this still warrants a mention. Egg McMuffin inventor Herb Peterson has died in Santa Barbara at age 89. Who on this planet hasn't eaten one of these breakfast grease-balls on a road-trip, or in the office cafeteria?!?