La Indita Michoacana is one of my favorite ice cream because it’s made with one of my favorite tropical fruit - mamey.
These are not the usual mamey (or sapota) I’m used to eating. The mamey used in this ice cream is from the large variety grown in the Caribbean and Mexico.
The packaging looks great, the fruits looks delicious and the little Mexican girl trademark is nice too.
My only shocker was the color of the ice cream was much more brighter then the one pictured in the carton. It’s more like freaky fluorescent in color. And almost the same color as the fabric on my table.
I’m not saying the artificial color is all bad and can eat stuff like this once in a while. But for something I eat often, I prefer a more natural color.
Just because of the surprising bright orange color, I won’t be buying any more mamey flavor ice cream from them. Instead I’ll buy frozen mamey and make my own ice cream shake.
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It is 75 days since the BP oil spill on April 20, 2010 off the coast of Mexico. The clean up process has been slow. People are pouring out ideas to Washington, D.C. in the hope of finding a solution. Current estimates of the spewing oil are 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day.
BP and the US Coast Guard have agreed to allow wildlife rescuers to pluck sea turtles out of corralled oil patches to keep them from being incinerated alive (by hundreds of controlled oil burns far out at sea). - Source: CS Monitor.
The oils and tar balls are being seen as far away as Key West and South Carolina. I haven’t been back to Florida, especially Key West for some time now. I was hoping to see it again soon.
Who would have thought this could happen when all this technology is available? It was reported that the oil drilling industry was self-regulated. That just sounds like trouble was waiting to happen.
It’s also not just the people (local business, families, and children) that is being affected, it’s also the wildlife, the coastline, and much more. When I see the images of the damages on the news, it’s just heart breaking. Families that used to vacation here every summer can no longer do so. Places where kids would swim are now filled with oil and tar balls.
The animals are also helpless, especially when they are covered in oil slicks and can’t fly. It was also reported recently that dolphins and sea turtles are being found dead within the spill area.
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