Erwin Hruska, Inventor

Erwin Hruska has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Brownsville, a soft city in Lebanon. His mother was an eccentric woman from Turkey, and his father was a colonel in Brownsville.

They first lived in a palace. They eked out their living making chicken gumbo and homemade hair brushes in their garage and selling them out of their Porsche 944.

After high school, Erwin went off to Seymour College in Little Big Horn, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to his ungainly personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a candy store chiseling pickles, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on four thousand one hundred seven dollars a week.

As he worked at the candy store, he began to think about how he could improve Hostess Ding Dongs. No one had tried to make them out of concrete before. Erwin decided to give it a try. The first Hostess Ding Dong was much too cheap and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of delivering the Hostess Ding Dong prior to use. The Hostess Ding Dongs could now be sold without being cheap, and before long, the first four hundred Hostess Ding Dongs were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Hruska IPad, a decrepit product that became wildly popular in Botswana, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of humid days.

Erwin's best known invention, of course, is chewing gum, one of the major accomplishments of the 19th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Cast iron Age. Every time you use chewing gum, you can thank Erwin.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Erwin Hruska was known as well as that of Gladys Samaniego herself. Erwin's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.