½For anyone that knows me, they can tell you that I cannot stand the sweltering summer heat. Heck, winter heat or any heat for that matter. I h-a-t-e it. The perfect weather for me is a brisk 65º - and cloudy.
It's been hot all summer long - unbearably so for me. So, a few weekends ago, I made it a point to check out a cool snow cone stand at the Hollywood Farmers Market - Sno con Amor.. What? you live in South Gate and you drove all the way to Hollyweird just for flavored ice? Yup! Was it worth it? Well, for one, I have no a/c at home so any drive inside an air conditioned vehicle is already leaps and bounds better than being couped-up in this oven. And two, I had heard some good things about this particular food stand.
The stand.
Beet Lemonade Sno Cone.
Erase from your memory banks the notion of artificially-flavored syrupy smurf blue electric raspberry or viscous incredible hulk lime-flavored ice. No goopy pink bubble gum flavored nonsense over ice. These are all-naturally flavored snow cones.
The Menu - or what was left by the time we got there.
We arrived just before closing and luckily for us they still had a couple of flavors left. I went knowing I wanted to try the walnut snow cone and fortunately for us, it was still available. As for my second choice, I would have tried coconut, tamarind chile, strawberry/rhubarb, blackberry lavender or watermelon basil, but those were sold out. So we ordered up a beet lemonade.
Walnut Sno Cone.
The walnut snow cone made me kick myself for not having had a snow cone like this before. Shit, if snow cones tasted like this growing up, I would have never stopped having them. This hit the spot under the squelching heat. Heatwave or not, this is good, period. Seriously though, why do people pushing [artificially-flavored] raspado carts sell raspados the way they do? These are supremely better.
Sno con Amor - right in the middle of it all.
We also tried the beet lemonade "sno" cone and that too was delicious - believe it or not. So, was the trip worth it, you asked? Is the sky blue? Is water wet? I plan on trying more flavors whether it's hot or not. And even if I don't return soon, I hope to mimic the flavors here at home, especially since I already have the machine to churn out "snow." And do you wanna know the best part? I can booze mine up. Stay tuned...
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