http://theriverelora.com/blog Shop owner Michael discusses the daily routines of running a small ice cream and coffee shop in a beautiful small tourist town in Southern Ontario. Sun, 02 Sep 2007 02:12:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 http://theriverelora.com/blog/whats-danelion/ http://theriverelora.com/blog/whats-danelion/#comments Tue, 21 Aug 2007 23:23:03 +0000 Michael http://theriverelora.com/blog/whats-danelion/ Customer: What’s dandelion?
Michael: Dandelion is sort of like a mocha. It comes from the roasted roots of dandelions which for years were use as an alternative to coffee.
Customer: (sampling dandelion ice cream) Really?
Michael: Yes in fact dandelions came to North America with the settler’s way back when.
Customer: Wow! It’s nice. I would have never known.
Michael: That’s right. People would have planted them next to their tomatoes and they would roast, grind and brew hot water through the dandelions.
Customer: Hmm!
Michael: Then enter the industrial revolution and people were able to get coffee so easily they had no use for the dandelions anymore.
Customer: Riiight.
Michael: Of course by then the damage had already been done. What we see as a weed would actually be an important part of peoples lives.
Customer: I’ll have a single scoop of it.
Michael: Great.
Customer: OH! What’s ginger?
Michael: Ginger is more like a ginger ale float rather than say something you would put in a sauce.
Customer: (sampling …

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