If you are looking for something to do with family or friends this weekend, consider heading over to Gate City Boulevard to the Michoacana Store for a frozen fruit bars at the "heladería y paletería". Michoacan is a state in Mexico, just west of Mexico City. While most know of the area because of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, it is also well knows for frozen fruit bars, perhaps even the original home of them.
When you find this store tucked-away in Greensboro, you will not be disappointed. It is located across from the Habitat for Humanity Restore, behind the Latino Credit Union, beside K-Pop Nail Salon. La Michoacana, and the surrounding area, is like a little taste of Mexico right here in Greensboro. There is even a man selling fresh coconuts out of a shopping cart in the parking lot. The popsicles are $2.49 each and there must be at least 100 flavors, made on site. As an example, the above flavor is mango and chili pepper. It is not sweet at all, but savory, spicy and filled with real chunks of mango. The first bite tastes like real fruit and real food, not sugar. Other flavors include tamarind, kiwi strawberry, cherry, chocolate, and coconut. They do have more playful, candy flavors and some that are milk based. You could try a different flavor a day and probably have not exhausted the choices by the end of the summer. A nice option is to cut off chunks so that everyone can try more than one.
Indeed, it is time for summer fun!
Well, I do love fruit bars, but I'll pass on the mango thingy ... never developed a taste for mango. Our neighbor when we lived in south Florida had a huge mango tree and gave us lots of them. We gave most away! :) Sounds like a fun place, though. But isn't Mexico City a long way to go for a fruit bar? :)
Posted by: Lowell | Friday, June 01, 2018 at 08:03 AM
A weird flavour for a popsicle!
Posted by: William Kendall | Friday, June 01, 2018 at 10:54 AM