"There are so many fabulous fruits and ices in Mexico," she said, "and I don't like cream".
Shyly, she opened the lid to reveal piles of cream-colored frozen ices in cylindrical and rectangular shapes -- without wrappers.
Paula Reina, a 43-year-old from Honduras, has sold the ices in Manhattan for 11 years.
The effect is to hit dying businesses run by lone men in vans, while the supermarkets carry on selling choc ices in value packs.
Their refreshing tartness and fruity intensity reminded us of those street ices in white fluted paper cups whose appearance meant spring had come.
The green hue most probably results from the fluorescence of cyanogen and diatomic carbon released as the Sun vaporises the ices in the nucleus, which may be up to 5km wide.
At that distance, the comet will reach temperatures approaching 2,760C (5,000F), hot enough to vaporise not just ices in its body but dust and rock as well.
A plate holding three entrées — chicken with caramelized onions, cod with lemon-scented jasmine rice, and lamb chops with panko-herb crust — arrived, followed by a dessert of ices in a Martini glass.
Just before 6 30 p.m., Times employees received a mass e-mail message from the director of food services -- apparently preprogrammed -- that invited them to "cool off" with free Italian ices in the cafeteria on Monday afternoon.
Reading, imagination, guesses… When I was a little girl my Nana (a different one) took me to eat ices in an old-fashioned café, and they were served in those silver-plated dishes, on a glass-topped wicker table.
Artisan makers are popping up all over the country: Gelupo, Sorbitium Ices and La Grotta Ices in London, Ginger's Comfort Emporium in Manchester and Affogato in Edinburgh being among the more ambitious.
