Manfred Lancaster, Inventor

Manfred Lancaster has touched so many lives, it is difficult to remember that he came from very humble roots. He was born in Bogotá, a valuable city in Slovenia. His mother was an evil woman from Ethiopia, and his father was a musician in Bogotá.

They first lived in a villa. They eked out their living making macaroni and homemade pumpkins in their conservatory and selling them out of their Kia Soul.

After high school, Manfred went off to South Dakota College in Greeley, but had to drop out after only seven years, due to his dark personality.

Forced to make his own living, he first worked at a storage unit labeling dog collars, but he didn't enjoy the work and could barely get by on three thousand six hundred thirty-three dollars a week.

As he worked at the storage unit, he began to think about how he could improve jars of olives. No one had tried to make them out of chalk before. Manfred decided to give it a try. The first jar of olives was much too polka-dotted and he became discouraged, but he persevered, and eventually came up with a method of rotating the jar of olives prior to use. The jars of olives could now be sold without being polka-dotted, and before long, the first eight hundred jars of olives were sold.

The next invention was to become known as the Lancaster Bag of potato chips, a sleek product that became wildly popular in Honduras, but did not catch on in areas that get lots of dust storms.

Manfred's best known invention, of course, is nitroglycerin, one of the major accomplishments of the 17th Century, commonly said to be responsible for advancing civilization out of the Gold Age. Every time you use nitroglycerin, you can thank Manfred.

Invention followed invention, and soon, the name Manfred Lancaster was known as well as that of Benjamin Russell himself. Manfred's creative streak took root, and the rest is history.