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Friday Flash..Haagen Dazs Sorbets

I saw these new additions to the Haagen Dazs ice cream range in a local convenience store during the week.According to my battered Oxford Dictionary "sorbet" is defined as "a water ice".The Wild Apple Sorbet certainly meets that definition being... ...full story at Porcelain Monkey

from Porcelain Monkey on Fri, Jun 13 2008

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