water ices

Fruit-flavored frozen desserts

Water ices are frozen desserts made from sweetened water and fruit juice or flavoring—essentially Italian ice or sorbet.

The term is particularly associated with Philadelphia, where water ice stands are a summer institution.

Unlike ice cream, water ices contain no dairy: We got lemon water ice from the corner stand.

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snowball · frozen dessert · ices · street vendor · paper cup · molds · snow cone · churning · sugar · stabilizer · lemon juice · emulsifying · citric acid · fruit flavors · food coloring · corn syrup · blending · aerating

Opposites
frozen dessert composition

water icesice cream

Churned frozen dairy dessert

gelato · frozen custard · soft serve · frozen yogurt · kulfi

temperature/physical state

water iceshot chocolate

Heated cocoa beverage

hot tea · mulled cider

Family

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Top 500,000
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Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G