When the mercury and humidity rise and the human spirit wilts, people seek icy relief.
One of the best places to find it is at Paleteria y Neveria Tocumbo, a Mexican-style ice cream parlor at 3322 Old Capitol Trail. It's located behind the Prices Corner Shopping Center in a small strip center that includes a discount cigarette outlet, a pizza shop and a taqueria.
I wrote about these fruity, juicy homemade ice pops two years ago, but haven't been there lately.
Tocumbo, a Mexican city, is considered the birthplace of paletas, Mexico's most popular frozen treats on a stick. (Paleteria is Spanish for an ice-pop parlor and neveria is an ice cream parlor.)
Paletas can be nondairy or cream-based. Tocumbo offers such fruit flavors as mamey, cherimoya, pineapple, lime, tamarind and mango.
Blogger Mike Matthews of Down with Absolutes told me he recently got a coconut bar and was "bowled over!"
"It was heavenly!" Matthews writes. "It was like sweetened coconut milk on a stick with all the delicious and chewy shredded coconut. My aunt and uncle RAVE about the butterscotch bars."
I'm so there.
2 comments:
You know, they say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Clearly, this is true of Mike Matthews.
Patricia,
Me linking to your blog brings in all the obnoxious commenters! I'll have to do it more often!!
Thanks, Sir/Madam Anonymous!!
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