
Thousands of gang members are ecstatic for Opening Day on Sunday, March 30th. The Nationals announced a partnership with Gifford's Ice Cream & Candy Co. as the team enters its first season in Nationals Park. Gifford's, founded in Silver Spring, MD, will serve scooped ice cream and novelties through 2011 at the Nationals' new home in Southeast Washington.
The deal has sparked a new found positive energy on the streets of Southeast. Even in the middle of winter, ice cream may have solved the city's biggest issue. Crime.
"With Gifford's coming into the neighborhood, none of us really care about our differences anymore. It's like, how could we possibly be angry when there's delicious local ice cream right down the street," commented local gang leader Lonnie Baxter.
DC government officials are shocked that crime could have been significantly reduced decades ago, by merely opening up ice cream parlors.
"I've been saying it for years, mix business with pleasure. I love that I can get flavors like, Crack. Yea that's right. Crack ice cream. Man they have some good crack ice cream. I usually get butter pecan and sprinkle some crack right on top. Gifford's...ooooooohwweeeeee!,"shouted DC councilman Marion Barry.
Gifford's had no idea their ice cream could influence so many people to change their lives for the better.
Or did they.
"This is what happens when you put pain killers into a giant batch of ice cream. People chill the fuck out...The idea just came to me back in 2002 when my wisdom teeth were removed. I was on 60mg of Percocet, eating a scoop of our Rocky Road. I proceeded to be the happiest I had ever been in my life. I knew the idea was borderline dangerous, but we have had no regrets thus far," remarked Gifford's CMO Neil Braverman. "Wait, Marion Barry sprinkles crack on top of our ice cream? Oh dear."