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erastesI'd been used to eating NICE ice-cream recently - Loseley and Ben and Jerry and that sort of thing. So I'm in my local shop and I find a local manufacturer "Made in Norfolk since 1898" and better still - it's sorbet - Raspberry - and lemon!
So I buy a raspberry - supporting the local community and not succumbing to the evils of Caramel Choo Choo or whatever it's called.
I take one mouthful and my mouth immediately swells up. It was ghastly - luckily it only lasted about five minutes but it was rather scary at the time.
Then far too late I look at the list of ingredients....Water, Sugar, Raspberries, glucose syrup, stabilisers, E410, E466, E405, E407, citric acid, petin, colours, E110, E112, E129, E151.
BLECH!!!!
I tipped it down the sink and I'm going to send it back with a stinking letter.
Culprit? PARRAVANIS Traditional Italian Ice Cream.
I need caramel choo choo. Whimper.
So I buy a raspberry - supporting the local community and not succumbing to the evils of Caramel Choo Choo or whatever it's called.
I take one mouthful and my mouth immediately swells up. It was ghastly - luckily it only lasted about five minutes but it was rather scary at the time.
Then far too late I look at the list of ingredients....Water, Sugar, Raspberries, glucose syrup, stabilisers, E410, E466, E405, E407, citric acid, petin, colours, E110, E112, E129, E151.
BLECH!!!!
I tipped it down the sink and I'm going to send it back with a stinking letter.
Culprit? PARRAVANIS Traditional Italian Ice Cream.
I need caramel choo choo. Whimper.
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Date: 2007-08-18 07:22 pm (UTC)What you really need is an ice cream maker. £30 or so would fetch an acceptable one. Then you can get into the magnificent world of home-made ice cream, where you'll find nicer by far stuff. My last ice cream adventure was pina colada sherbet (a sort of milky sorbet). Something you'd never get in the shops. (Pineapple juice, a half glass of bacardi, a tin of coconut milk and some ordinary milk, churned and eaten).
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Date: 2007-08-18 07:43 pm (UTC)http://hyakinthia.blogspot.com/
I think she's a history major, and it might be useful to have her blog linked to your new project. :) You can always contact her, of course.
And, oh yeah...
Mochi Ice Cream, girl. Mochi Ice Cream.
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Date: 2007-08-18 07:53 pm (UTC)*leers in the direction of Comet*
Thank you!
Re: OT
Date: 2007-08-18 07:56 pm (UTC)Thank you! I'll certainly seek her out!!
Okay ... this will hurt
Date: 2007-08-18 08:21 pm (UTC)Hope the swelling goes down. It's disgusting what they do to our "food".
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Date: 2007-08-18 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-18 08:53 pm (UTC)Dark chocolate peanut butter is my fave:)
*pets you*
Re: OT
Date: 2007-08-18 08:59 pm (UTC)*slobbers* (http://www.mikawayausa.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Code=5PK&Category_Code=)
My favorite ice cream line, hands down. :)
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Date: 2007-08-18 09:35 pm (UTC)Re: Okay ... this will hurt
Date: 2007-08-18 09:37 pm (UTC)It'll make me think twice in future- i'm usually quite good about reading labels but - as you say - I just took it for granted "home made in Norfolk" hey - gotta be good.
Wrong.
Re: OT
Date: 2007-08-18 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-08-18 09:39 pm (UTC)*G*
Thanks, hun!
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Date: 2007-08-18 10:18 pm (UTC)...
*slinks off*
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Date: 2007-08-18 11:25 pm (UTC)How sad, because making sorbet without all this gunk is quite easy.
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Date: 2007-08-19 08:35 am (UTC)Ice cream!
Date: 2007-08-19 11:10 am (UTC):))
Hugs
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Date: 2007-08-19 02:42 pm (UTC)*shudders at the memory*
Re: Ice cream!
Date: 2007-08-19 02:49 pm (UTC)*drools*
Glad to see you, hun!
Re: Ice cream!
Date: 2007-08-19 04:23 pm (UTC):))
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