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Raspados: Mexico's Beloved Street-Corner Shaved Ice
Sweet, sour, spicy and utterly refreshing.
Scraped ice, real fruit
'Raspado' comes from raspar, to scrape. Vendors scrape ice into a cup and top it with syrups made from real fruit — tamarind, mango, lime, hibiscus and more — often with a swirl of chamoy and a dusting of chili-lime salt.
The magic is the sweet-sour-spicy-salty balance that makes your mouth water for the next bite.
A neighborhood staple
From plazas to street corners, the raspado cart is a warm-weather institution across Mexico and the U.S. Southwest — including the very cities we're opening in.
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Meet the cutest ice on earth 🌵
Prickly Ice is opening soon in Hawaii, Arizona, Michigan and San Diego. Every bowl is hand-shaved snow sculpted into a smiling little cactus and buried in fresh fruit.
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