"It's not scientific, but I'd say about a third that came in were first-time visitors, " says Ms. Lustmann, who opened Sweet Crush Ice Bar in Los Angeles last August after working for about 10 years as an attorney.

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Even the oddest of the flavours tastes as sweet and creamy as ice cream should and has a gelato-like consistency.

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Mr and Mrs Miscellaneous (699 22nd Street, 415-970-0750), opened in 2010, lures sweet tooths with homemade ice-cream in flavours like its signature Ballpark, a mix of roasted peanuts, chocolate-covered pretzels and locally-brewed beer, Anchor Steam.

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The ice cream is light, sweet and flavourful, the perfect accompaniment to the often-intense Cuban heat, and comes with a vanilla wafer-like cookie.

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Its devotees are like members of the U.S. Ski team in the late 1970s, a hardy bunch that grew up carving turns on the rutted ice of eastern mountains and later flourished on the sweet powder of the destination resorts out west.

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Mix equal parts Campari, sweet vermouth (the red one) and gin, and serve over ice with a strip of orange zest.

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Classic local cafes like The Garage serve Batroun's renowned sweet-and-tart lemonade, made from the local citrus harvest and served ice-cold.

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Corn, sweet potato sprinkled with cinnamon, rice and beans, garlic, avocado, and codfish all get whipped into ice cream, as well as what seems like almost every available seasonal fruit, including quenepa, which only exists on the island.

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