I'm of an age that the phrase "cool beans" was
part of my childhood lingo. It thus made me pretty happy to be able to title this post with those words. And let me tell you -- today's story is about some seriously Cool Beans.
Not just cool beans... magic beans (giant not included).
They're small...they're edible...they're brightly colored...
...they say things.
Yup, just like the valentine candy hearts, these particular dried beans have a message for the world. "Success" one states. "Hope" announces another. "Zebra!" cries a third. (Not verbally - there is an actual zebra engraved onto some of these beans. I also spotted a giraffe, a crocodile, a lion, and a flamingo).
What's with the verbose vegetables? They're a novelty gift, basically. The creators (inventors? 
designers?) of the magic beans discovered that when something is laser-engraved into the exterior of a dried bean, the image or words also appear as the bean sprouts. You stick it in the ground, and up springs a little plant still proudly bearing its message. Don't believe me? Check out the website. They're pretty awesome.
How did we come to possess these magic beans? As in any manufacturing, sometimes there are slight goofs. An animal printed off-center here. A word smudged there. Little things that render those poor beans un-sellable.
So they donated them to us! Lots of them. We're talking 500 pounds of magic beans. We're putting them to good use in our Soup Kitchen (chili anyone?) and also distributing bags of them in the Food Pantry. Clients have been a bit wary of the pastel-colored legumes, but once we demonstrate that the coloring washes right off and assure everyone that they taste just like beans, most people come around.
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