If nothing else, a holiday is a good excuse to eat something pretty. Is it my fault that blueberries and raspberries are on sale at Kroger? This was my breakfast this morning. I will have the traditional watermelon later, but I chopped it a few days ago, so it is no longer photogenic.
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Here's something Juanita showed me, that we did for awhile in summers past when you could get a one-pound bag of frozen blueberries at the dollar store for a dollar (no more; too bad). Put some frozen blueberries in a coffee cup, spill in a little regular half-and-half and stir it up. The blueberries sweeten the milk and part-freeze it into instant ice-cream with blueberries in it. It is /so good/. But I see that whipped cream could only be better. That's what I'm doing next time I get paid. Thanks!
When I was a little boy a special treat my grandmother would give me was a brick of blueberries frozen in sugar syrup, from weird little rectangular cans that were waxed cardboard on the sides and metal on the top and bottom. You opened it by pulling the top off with pliers, turned it upside-down and shook it out onto a dish. The dishes were all from my grandparents' Italian restaurant. They were light-yellow with white flowers painted on them and a dark ring around the edge.
OH! I bet that was the original style of Italian Ice, aka "Water Ice" in Philly, where I grew up. Water Ice was scoopable flavored water, typically, but, hypothetically, you could mix in fruit juice and even fruit, but, for a summer snack, pure sugar water was best (and cheapest). But what you describe sounds like a deliberate "Italian Blueberry Ice", packaged in Italy for the sole purpose of being awesome. Okay, and, being eaten.
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