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I’m on deadline, so that’s why this review is older (written in 2008), but it’s still true!!

I warn you, this is very pricey, at an outrageous $4.99 a pint! (on sale at Gelson’s which is the only store that has it that I know of.) Normal people shouldn’t have to pay this much. But I decided to splurge one evening last year, and now that I know it’s the best, I keep watching for sales, and hope they’ll get it in other stores at a more reasonable price.

Greek Gods Honey Pomegranate Pagoto Ice Krema.

The website says:

In the 4th century BC, it was well known that a favorite treat of Alexander the Great was snow ice mixed with honey and nectar.

Okay…well-known???

Greek Gods decided the best kind of marketing is the kind with no separate photos, so I uploaded this cheerful one from Fancy Flours.

But everyone does know the benefits of pomegranate juice by now, a powerful antioxidant. I don’t think everyone knows how great honey is, though; it was used to cover wounds in the battlefield during WW 1, before antibiotics were invented. I myself remember clearly that when I was 8, I was so sick, lying on the couch while the grownups played cards, and my grandmother’s friends made me honey toast. I wasn’t even hungry, but I ate it and got well within the hour. Really. (I collect honey cookbooks and booklets, but I think it’s hard to bake with – it doesn’t have the same binding qualities as sugar, or some technical cooking thingie.)

So anyway, this pomegranate/honey ice cream is good for you, as well as being good on your tongue.

This ice cream also contains mastic:

People in the Mediterranean region have used mastic as a medicine for gastrointestinal ailments for several thousand years.

Chowhound isn’t as crazy as I am about it, and says:

We also tried the Honey Pomegranate flavor, which is not as impressive: the flavoring is much more subtle and mainly the honey comes through.

But that’s exactly why I do love it! Ice cream is so cold, it’s a challenge to get the subtler flavors to come through when your tongue might not be as sensitive. You can actually smell the honey, too! It’s a great mauvy color – if I could make this color with watercolor, I’d use it more.

May I have some MORE, please? /Oliver Twist.