{"id":527723,"date":"2010-04-14T14:18:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2985"},"modified":"2010-04-14T14:18:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T18:18:16","slug":"tangerine-basil-ice-pops-will-make-you-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/527723","title":{"rendered":"Tangerine-basil ice pops will make you happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2986\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 292px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2986\" title=\"pops1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/pops1-282x300.jpg\" alt=\"Tangerine-basil and blood orange-pineapple ice pops\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tangerine-basil and blood orange-pineapple ice pops<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Over the past few years, gourmet versions of Mexican paletas &#8212; i.e., ice pops &#8212; have been delighting the sweaty set in other Southern towns such as Nashville and Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been a little slow on the uptake &#8212; until now. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/King-of-Pops\/300615096456\"><strong>The King of Pops <\/strong><\/a>has kinda-sorta set up shop at the corner of N. Highland Ave. and North Avenue in Poncey-Highland. While the king &#8212; a.k.a. one Steven Carse &#8212; waits for the build out of his shop, he sells the pops from a pushcart at the street corner. His hours are irregular, so it&#8217;s best to check his<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/thekingofpops\"> Twitter feed<\/a> for schedules and information.<\/p>\n<p>But in the meantime, you can buy his frozen treats at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jakesicecream.com\/\"><strong> Jake&#8217;s Ice Cream<\/strong><\/a> in the<strong> Irwin Street Market<\/strong> and also at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.souperjennyatl.com\/\"><strong>Souper Jenny<\/strong><\/a> in Buckhead.<\/p>\n<p>I picked up these two from Jake&#8217;s &#8212; choosing from a daily list that included chocolate with sea salt, cinnamon cream with banana and pineapple habanero.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2987\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 234px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2987\" title=\"pops2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/04\/pops2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"Two bites in...\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two bites in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The tangerine-basil pop was great &#8212; the flavor &#0133;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tangerine-basil and blood orange-pineapple ice pops Over the past few years, gourmet versions of Mexican paletas &#8212; i.e., ice pops &#8212; have been delighting the sweaty set in other Southern towns such as Nashville and Raleigh, North Carolina. We&#8217;ve been a little slow on the uptake &#8212; until now. The King of Pops has kinda-sorta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}