The Vietnamese are just beginning to get a taste for milk and ice cream, so the business has growth potential.

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The worry is that if Mr Byers cannot make up his mind on relatively low-key issues like milk and ice cream, how will he be able to resist the far more serious pressures that will be exerted on him over car prices and supermarkets, both currently the subject of competition inquiries?

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And forever, until last Thursday when we stopped at the Happy Clown for his ice cream, his eyes lit up when he had a milk shake or an ice cream.

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Try the warm Valrhona chocolate cake with malted-milk-ball ice cream.

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The gel is usually used as a thickening agent in toothpaste, ice cream and baby milk.

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Occasionally, comics-industry types assert that comics are good at telling stories in lots of different genres, which misses the big picture in the same way as a dairy-industry type insisting that milk can be made into lots of different flavors of ice cream.

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Higher milk prices mean customers are paying more at Amy Green's ice cream shop in downtown Lincoln, Neb.

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Popular chocolate goods such as Cadbury's Dairy Milk, Maltesers and Kit Kat are now fair trade, while ice cream producers Ben and Jerry's will switch to exclusively fair trade ingredients this year.

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"I have been stunned by how much dairy there is in Shanghai compared with 12 months ago - there are coffee houses, ice cream parlours, frozen yoghurt bars, " she said, noting that the market in UHT milk drinks is also growing.

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