Thando, a movie-star beautiful 19-year-old in a short skirt and long braids, winced at the idea that Americans would eat nondairy ice cream.

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As long as they were low-fat, we could eat cookies and ice cream, chips, pasta and fruit roll-ups.

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You give people a lot of cake and ice cream, they're going to eat it.

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Machines that minimise intervention by human hands by cleaning themselves, for example, are more expensive, but help to ensure that the ice-cream they produce is safe to eat.

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Here, cool young things eat from a brief, weekly-changing menu (vividly green foraged herb soup, almond cake with spruce ice cream) under a vaulted, peeling ceiling.

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