Reina de Michoacan specializes in making
ice cream with all natural ingredients
By Marjoie Lilly - SO area representative<br><br>
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/banners/LaReina_ad0607_vert.jpg align=right border=0 hspace=3>The Reina de Michoacan ice cream shops are one of the best things about traveling in Mexico. Jose Figueroa, manager of two of these stores in Palomas, Mexico, says there are “thousands” of them. <br><br>At least till the end of this year, visitors can just walk across the border from Columbus with no papers required. The first of these ice cream shops is three streets from the Port of entry to the right, and the second is six blocks down, on the left. <br><br>You can tell Figueroa is proud of the 32 flavors of ice cream, 15 flavors of Popsicles, 15 ice cream bars, and 7 aguas frescas, or a kind of fruit juice that they make themselves on the premises. The company claims its products are made of all natural ingredients. The only preservative they use, Figueroa says, is “el frio” (the cold). <br><br>Figueroa says he was “always” making ice cream. When he was little, and even before he was born, his parents lived in the back room of the Reinas de Michoacan they owned. They opened the two in Palomas in the nineties, and relatives still own some in Casas Grandes that they’ve had since the seventies. They’re part of the family that started the chain in 1948. <br><br>The Reinas de Michoacan are a celebration of the tropical abundance of the southern state of Michoacan. They make creamy white ice cream bars with whole strawberries in them, pink popsicles with chunks of guava, watermelon-red popsicles with watermelon seeds imbedded in them, vanilla ice cream the yellow-orange color of real vanilla, and a flavor called “angel kiss” that’s an explosion of marshmallow, cherries, almonds, raisins, granola, and coconut. <br><br>There’s a light green mint flavor that packs an intense punch, and a very rich ice cream bar with a thick chocolate coating covered with nuts and coconut. You can request special fruit juices made of 100% papaya or canteloupe (without water added like aguas frescas), or even beet or celery, and they can add an egg yoke if you ask for it. <br><br>The stores also make milkshakes, malted drinks, and banana splits. You can buy a cup of pure strawberries or a carton of strawberries in cream. The fruit cocktail is made of fruits that come from all over Mexico—pineapple from Veracruz, strawberries from Guanajuato, papaya from Chiapas, and cantaloupe from Tamaulipas. <br><br>Start sampling the flavors they offer, and you’ll keep coming back.
ice cream with all natural ingredients
By Marjoie Lilly - SO area representative<br><br>
<img src=http://sonewmex.com/banners/LaReina_ad0607_vert.jpg align=right border=0 hspace=3>The Reina de Michoacan ice cream shops are one of the best things about traveling in Mexico. Jose Figueroa, manager of two of these stores in Palomas, Mexico, says there are “thousands” of them. <br><br>At least till the end of this year, visitors can just walk across the border from Columbus with no papers required. The first of these ice cream shops is three streets from the Port of entry to the right, and the second is six blocks down, on the left. <br><br>You can tell Figueroa is proud of the 32 flavors of ice cream, 15 flavors of Popsicles, 15 ice cream bars, and 7 aguas frescas, or a kind of fruit juice that they make themselves on the premises. The company claims its products are made of all natural ingredients. The only preservative they use, Figueroa says, is “el frio” (the cold). <br><br>Figueroa says he was “always” making ice cream. When he was little, and even before he was born, his parents lived in the back room of the Reinas de Michoacan they owned. They opened the two in Palomas in the nineties, and relatives still own some in Casas Grandes that they’ve had since the seventies. They’re part of the family that started the chain in 1948. <br><br>The Reinas de Michoacan are a celebration of the tropical abundance of the southern state of Michoacan. They make creamy white ice cream bars with whole strawberries in them, pink popsicles with chunks of guava, watermelon-red popsicles with watermelon seeds imbedded in them, vanilla ice cream the yellow-orange color of real vanilla, and a flavor called “angel kiss” that’s an explosion of marshmallow, cherries, almonds, raisins, granola, and coconut. <br><br>There’s a light green mint flavor that packs an intense punch, and a very rich ice cream bar with a thick chocolate coating covered with nuts and coconut. You can request special fruit juices made of 100% papaya or canteloupe (without water added like aguas frescas), or even beet or celery, and they can add an egg yoke if you ask for it. <br><br>The stores also make milkshakes, malted drinks, and banana splits. You can buy a cup of pure strawberries or a carton of strawberries in cream. The fruit cocktail is made of fruits that come from all over Mexico—pineapple from Veracruz, strawberries from Guanajuato, papaya from Chiapas, and cantaloupe from Tamaulipas. <br><br>Start sampling the flavors they offer, and you’ll keep coming back.