A Sweet Obsession

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When David was a little boy, he loved ice cream so much that his parents joked he would someday grow up to own a Diary Queen. In actual fact, he grew up to be a chemist, but he never lost his obsession with ice cream.

David's colleagues in the lab at Ever Bloom Seeds were well aware of his ice cream fixation, but they didn't find it nearly as charming as his parents had. No, in fact they found it rather annoying. The too-small freezer in the staff lounge was so stuffed full of chocolate mint chip and toffee crunch ice cream sandwiches they couldn't fit their frozen microwave lunches in it. Even the cupboards were full of what David referred to as "Emergency Rations," stacks of silver pouches of freeze-dried ice cream that left little room for other staff members to store their coffee mugs or their tea bags.

In the evenings when the rest of the chemists and lab assistants clocked out at 5:00 pm, David could often still be found tinkering at his station. His boss teased him on his way out, "What do you do here after hours? Make ice cream?," but let him stay and work on his side project because David was a good chemist. Not to mention, paying him in ice cream saved the company tons of money.

Although David chuckled at the jokes about him staying late to develop new flavors of ice cream, in actual fact his extra curricular project was ice cream-related, but he kept the details to himself. He knew what he was working on would be revolutionary, something the world hadn't seen before. 

When ice cream cones began sprouting in people's flower beds and window boxes along with their nasturtiums and begonias, David worried that maybe he'd taken his ice cream dreams a tad too far. Luckily, the leadership at Ever Bloom recognized genius when they saw it. To this day, David is still happily tinkering away in his lab, coming up with new new seed/ice cream combos to add to what is now known as the Ever Bloom Magic Ice Cream Bean line. And, he still takes his pay in ice cream, except now he gets a double dip.