The Intellectual Dreamboat Fruit Company(IDFCO) company started with the February 3rd lecture given by adorable professor of Central American Revolutions History, Patrick McNamara. This lecture was about bananas. Pat is bananas for bananas!
As the result of bananacentric lecture, I ended up thinking about going to the grocery store to buy bananas. And somehow thinking about bananas got me thinking about pluots. What are pluots? If you did ask that question, I pity you. Pluots are the best thing the scientific community and Jesus ever came up with. It is the result of two teenage apricot and a plum falling in love and having a baby out of wedlock.
I turned to Kelly at the end of class and said "I know pluots are out of season, but do you think they still sell them at the grocery store?". My grader Boyd, who by the way was eavesdropping, turned around and gave me the "god damn it , not another dumbass undergrad" look.
Well, Boyd, pluots are always in season. I figured this out after spending 15 minutes at Cub Foods grocery searching for pluots. No pluots in sight. No pluots. No pluots. No pluots. I was quite depressed at this point, then the light bulb went on in my head. I grabbed one apricot and one plum. Hurried to the check out line. The cashier at Cubs1 asked "What are you going to do with an apricot and a plum?". I said "make pluots". She did not know what a pluot was so I spent the next two minutes telling her about pluots. Needless to say, she was amazed. I paid the $0.70 grocery bill and left. After leaving the grocery store I went merrily on my way to the bus stop to catch the 21 bus westbound to the Underground for Zombie Night. When I got there I told Kelly "our grader was wrong" in reference to the pluots. Then I told her to close her eyes. I gave her the two fruits lovely wrapped in the Cub Foods plastic grocery bag. Best gift ever.
On February 10th we decided to actually physically engineer the fruits. We cut the two fruits in half. We paired apricot and plum halves together. The result was love. Love is pluot. Thus, pluots are always in season. That was our first physically engineered fruit. The birth of the Intellectual Fruit Company. So every Tuesday and Thursday(every day we have Central American Revolutions lectures) we will physically engineer a new fruit. Very scientifical2!
So the main players in IDFCO are:
Kelly Bellin President and scientist
Quynh Nguyen President and scientist
Connor Drummond Creative Director
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