Icy, spicy, cool – Handmade paletas ”” Mexican ice pops ”” have traditional flavors and cutting-edge style. – (and I am hungry and hot)

“SUMMERTIME is paleta time. These Mexican ice pops — chock-full of chunks of fresh fruit and available in a hypnotizing array of colors and clear, not-too-sweet flavors — conjure images of hot afternoons in the park, time spent on a bench under a shady tree, clear blue skies dotted with red, white and green balloons.

Thats not just some idyllic Latino-Rockwellian fantasy. On a recent 80-degree-plus weekend in the courtyard of Plaza Mexico in Lynwood, a family of five took advantage of a park bench and a view of a replica of the íngel de la Independencia, each of them holding fast to summer by his or her Popsicle stick. Customers at the nearby Paleterí La Michoacana, a small, often crowded shop tucked into a corner of the plaza, lined up for paletas in flavors such as tamarindo, hibiscus flower and mango con chile. If summer in L.A. had a flavor, it might be mango con chile.”

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