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February 07, 2006
An Adventure in Real Fruit!
While I was sick a couple of weeks ago, Noel picked up some lemon sorbet for me as a treat. It was not a brand either of us recognized, but the bright blue box declared "Lemon Sorbet" in bold yellow letters so little else mattered. Last night, defying the frigid outdoor temperature, we ripped open the carton.
Hmm. Instead of a smooth expanse of creamy, pale yellow sorbet, we found:
Yeah. That's a real lemon, filled with sorbet and sealed into a plastic pouch.
Apparently, this is some nifty gourmet sorbet, inspired by the Italians but manufactured in Spain and, well, Franklin, Illinois. For some reason, the unexpected opulence of our dessert was somewhat off-putting. All we had asked for was some icy, lemony concoction, and instead we suddenly had a sorbet's mini circle of life in our hands: crystallized fruit shells, lavishly filled with premium, all natural gelato, made from that lemon's own pulp and juice. Besides, you can't really take a lemon with a hat seriously.
We stood there, just gazing at it for a while, wondering if some tanned waiter in white linen would soon appear and offer us an umbrella for our exotic dessert. No one came. We ate it, of course, but a forced luxury is rarely appreciated as much as it should be.
And what was this doing at Bi-Lo anyway?
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excellent! i am going to bi-lo asap.
Posted by: hannah s. at February 7, 2006 09:07 PM
