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Default Ice cream (Was Are Masterfoods squeeze bottles in the US?)

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:46:37 GMT, Wayne Boatwright
> wrote:

>On Sun 14 Dec 2008 12:40:52p, sf told us...
>
>> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 11:08:24 -0700, Gloria P >
>> wrote:
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>>>Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Looks good. I like all manner of chocolate ice creams, in fact, many
>>>> types of ice creams. I'm particularly fond of those that have nuts or
>>>> other crunchy things in them, as well.
>>>>
>>>
>>>Yum! Pistachio with real pistachio nuts, like Ben&Jerry's
>>>Pistachio Pistachio, not the almonds that cheaper brands use.
>>>

>> How do they get away with calling it "pistachio" if they use almonds?
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>They can name it anything they want to. The packaging does say it contains
>almonds.
>
>The first pistachio ice cream I remember was served at Howard Johnson's.
>It had real pistachios in it, but it was also flavored with almond extract
>and tinted pale green.


So, this is the reverse. The idea of nuts in ice cream has never
appealed though. I don't buy rocky road, for instance.


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