30-Day Brain Freeze

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

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Frozen yogurt from Yogurt Planet at the Domain in Austin. A mix of pomegranate berry tart (pink) and taro root (purple) flavors. With strawberries, kiwi and peanuts.

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Frozen yogurt from Yogurt Planet at the Domain in Austin. A mix of pomegranate berry tart (pink) and taro root (purple) flavors. With strawberries, kiwi and peanuts.

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A shake made with vegan vanilla soft-serve and a vegan version of Butterfinger candy from Toy Joy on Guadalupe Street in Austin.

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A Tiffwich (M&M cookie, Blue Bell vanilla ice cream, peanut butter-chocolate chip cookie) from Tiff's Treats on Nueces Street in Austin.

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Gelato from Teo, a gelato and espresso shop on West 38th Street in Austin. Strawberries-and-cream, salted caramel and tartufo al bacio (chocolate with hazelnuts).

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Frozen yogurt from Swirll on Guadalupe Street near the University of Texas in Austin. This is cherry amaretto on top with peach on the bottom, with granola, blackberries and a maraschino cherry.

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A snowcone from Sno-Beach on Barton Springs Road in Austin. The flavors are margarita (yellow) and jalapeno firecracker (red). The white stripe in the center is cream.

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A "sweet" sundae from Short N Sweet, a Vietnamese bubble-tea house on North Lamar Boulevard in Austin. Foreground is durian frozen yogurt with sweet red beans, back of the dish is honeydew froyo with strawberry pudding.

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A small vanilla frozen custard cone dipped in chocolate from Sandy's Hamburgers on Barton Springs Road.

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A bowl of frozen yogurt from Red Mango on Rio Grande St. Near the University of Texas. The flavors are Ghirardelli dark chocolate and raspberry cheesecake. The toppings are Craisins, Oreos and Cocoa Pebbles.

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Popsicle Scribblers from a paletero's cart at the southeast corner of the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin.

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Paletero Arturo Rodriguez, right, sells frozen treats to customers at the southeast corner of the Ann Richards Congress Avenue Bridge in Austin.

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The Flores family runs a paleteria operation called Mom & Pops at area farmers markets. These were taken at the downtown farmers market at Republic Square at Fourth and Guadalupe streets in Austin. Strawberry-lemondae (top) and pineapple-basil paletas.

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A strawberry-lemonade shake from the Mighty Fine on MoPac Boulevard in Austin.

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Ice cream from the cupcake and ice cream shop called Lick It or Bite It or Both on Burnet Road in Austin. Clockwise from bottom left: coconut, creamsicle and espresso.

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An ice cream cone from Las Delicias Paleteria y Neveria on Research Boulevard in Austin. The top scoop is a tropical fruit called mamey; the bottom is a scoop of guayaba (guava) ice cream.

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Mexican-style ice cream bars called paletas de leche (strawberry, top, and vanilla) from Tropicana # 2 paleteria on Town Creek Drive in Austin.

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A medium water ice that's half mango and half black raspberry from Jim-Jim's Water Ice on West Sixth Street in Austin.

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A rainbow snoball with a core of frozen yogurt from the Ice Queens trailer on Rosewood Avenue in Austin.

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Frozen yogurt from Froyoyo on Bee Cave Road in Austin. (clockwise from bottom: low-cal chocolate with walnuts and cinnamon, red velvet cake with chocolate-covered raisins and regular tart yogurt with blueberries.

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Mexican-style Paletas from F&F Fruit Cups on Cameron Road. The red one is pepino (cucumber) with chile; the green one is lime. The paletas are made in Austin by La Super Michoacana.

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A watermelon and a cantaloupe paleta from El Chilito on Manor Road in Austin.

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A turtle pecan cluster Blizzard ice cream treat from Dairy Queen on 1501 Town Creek Drive in Austin.

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A frozen avocado margarita from Curra's Grill on East Oltorf Street in Austin.

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An ice icreeam sandwich from the ice cream sandwich truck called Coolhaus in Austin. This one has lambrunelleschi ice cream (reduced lambrusco wine and cinnamon) between ginger cookies.

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A Boston cream pie snowball, made with chocolate and vanilla cream flavors from Casey's New Orleans Snowballs on Airport Boulevard.

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A Witch Doctor shaved ice from Big Top Candy Shop on South Congress Avenue in Austin. The Witch Doctor has Dublin Dr Pepper syrup, cream and tiger's blood syrup, which is like coconut fruit punch.

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Big Top Candy Shop on South Congress Avenue in Austin.

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A double-scoop ice cream cone from Baskin-Robbins on North MoPac Boulevard in Austin. On top is cherries jubilee. On bottom is butter pecan.

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A small coffee ice cream with Heath Bar crush-ins from the Amy's Ice Creams on South Congress Avenue.

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A Slurpee with Coke and cherry flavors from the 7-Eleven store on 15th Street in Austi

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