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Lenin and Lime Gin and Tonic Sorbetto

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Greetings, comrade. This quasirevolutionary sorbetto is so bone-chillingly good that there'll never need to be another cold war. It's one of the flavors we were developing for our "Dictators of Cool" collection, which included our old favorites Adolf Hitler (The Great Licktator), Colonel Gaddafi (Cone El Gaddafi), and David Cameron (Fake 99, after a British ice cream cone).

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"You cannot defeat a nation that enjoys ice cream in minus 40 degrees." —Winston Churchill, on a trip to Russia

This bittersweet sorbetto has soft botanical notes and is fuel injected with enough alcohol for a kick in the Bolsheviks.

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