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CultureFood & DrinkGood Taste: Local creameries offer Harris-themed election scoop selection

Good Taste: Local creameries offer Harris-themed election scoop selection

Smitten and Koolfi bring back memorable flavors from Kamala's VP run.

This is Good Taste, a voter’s guide to eating well in the Bay Area. After featuring Kamala Harris’ favorite Indian restaurant and gathering place in San Francisco, we received word that the two Kamala ice cream flavors that were produced in honor of her 2021 VP inauguration are now back in the presidential election run-up.

Heaven knows it’s gonna take an awful lot of ice cream to get through the next two months. Two local women-run companies—Koolfi Creamery and Smitten Ice Cream—have anticipated that electoral season need. In response, both are bringing back the flavors they created in honor of Kamala Harris when she became vice president in 2021.

Smitten Ice Cream’s MVP.

Smitten’s MVP is a malted salted vanilla with pecan pralines. The pint container’s label features a smiling [editor’s note: and yassified!] drawing of Harris. 

“This flavor is a reminder of the progress we’ve made and the potential for even greater change in the future,” said the company in an Instagram post to announce its return.

Koolfi Creamery’s Kamala Blossom has roasted lotus seeds, rosewater, kewra (screwpine oil), and chopped pistachios. It has a pink blush from beet powder.

Koolfi Creamery’s Kamala Blossom.

Thanks to being selected to participate in the Vacant to Vibrant program, which offers merchants free downtown space and potential access to longer leases, Koolfi currently has a San Francisco location in addition to its original spot in San Leandro. Like its program cohorts, the shop needs support to stay, so take it as your duty to get into their scooops. For its part, Smitten launched back in the day as a portable business towed in a red Radio Flyer wagon and now operates shops in San Francisco, San Jose, and Las Vegas.

The next presidential debate takes place on September 10—maybe? Anything can happen between now and then, but one thing is certain: there will be ice cream.

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