Post a Comment. Wednesday, August 7, Meet the Mangonada. In today's world it's rare to not google someone you're interested in after you've met them. So after me and Mangonada shared a kiss on our first date I was at the computer seeing exactly who this girl I had been seeing so much of was. If you feel like you've heard of or seen a place with the name Paleteria La Michoacana but are positive you haven't been to Aurora in over a decade it's probably because you've seen the Michoacana name elsewhere.
It's the official ice cream of Tocumbo, Mexico. The small town is the home of "Michoacan" ice cream which is named after the state where it's made. You know Baskin and Robbins and Ben and Jerry and others but this is the biggest ice cream empire most people haven't heard of.
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It literally runs the town making sure the wheels go around. My stop to a location attached to a gas station in the suburbs of Chicago revealed that there's over 30, places selling this style of ice cream around Mexico and quite a few here in America.
I now have a new project about these spots which is already under way. In the meantime I decided to try a mangonada while there and she made a lasting impression on our first date.
I had seen mangonadas advertised on plenty of self written signs and self taken pics throughout the city's Mexican neighborhoods and was waiting to try one when the time was right. Mangonadas were advertised via photograph and they looked fantastic so I asked for a dance, there was no turning back. She swept me off my meet making me want more. The final result is a refreshing mix of sweet and spicy with the texture of a milk shake.
