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Sweet Green's Sweetflow Mobile, a Frozen Yogurt Truck in D.C.

At one point, it seemed insane that television screens could go into cars. But this is so much cooler than watching a movie from the backseat—in the Sweetflow Mobile, from Washington D.C.-based mini salad chain Sweet Green, you can pull down on a frozen yogurt nozzle in the backseat. (Or watch from outside as a trained nozzle-puller does it.) The mobile frozen yogurt truck was custom-built in Europe, arrived by boat, and first started roaming around the city in early June. As with other street vendors, Sweetflow Mobile is sending updated information on the truck's whereabouts via Twitter (@sweetflowmobile). Last week, it cruised by Eastern Market's grand re-opening, the 9:30 Club after a Michael Jackson tribute band played, and...

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Interior Designs of Frozen Yogurt Shops

Photograph of Pinkberry from Design Tavern When I see a new frozen yogurt shop, I usually think, "This one kind of looks like...the other one down the street." After looking at Wallpaper*'s and Design Tavern's galleries of the interiors of frozen yogurt shops around the world, the aesthetics of fro-yo becomes clearer: modern, sleek, clean, angular with some blobs thrown in. While it's certainly not an unpleasant theme, it feels boring after a while. I wouldn't mind someday seeing a fro-yo shop that looks like a cozy living room, à la Sugar Sweet Sunshine. [via Doobybrain]...

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Red Mango's New Pomegranate Frozen Yogurt

Red Mango, the frozen yogurt chain that's not Pinkberry, just launched a pomegranate yogurt this week, adding a third flavor to the menu's "original" and "green tea." Oddly enough, Pinkberry is also introducing a pomegranate flavor next week, except it doesn't advertise the POM Wonderful juice as an ingredient, as with Red Mango's version. For me, the appeal of pomegranate is in the seeds. The crunch, the tang, the way they mysteriously dissolve in your mouth. But pomegranate-flavored yogurt? Does pomegranate even have a defined flavor? (Other than generic reddish, tartish fruit?) It's not Red Mango's fault that the yogurt isn't overwhelmingly pomegranate; I'm not sure pomegranate even knows what it should taste like. Extracting the "essence" of the...

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Pinkberry Sues 'Copycat' Fro-Yo Shops

Pinkberry seems to spend half its time in court. This week, the Los Angeles-based frozen dessert chain filed lawsuits against six shops: Yoberry, Yoberry, Yogiberry, Pingo Yogurt, Peachberry, and Monkee's Teriyaki. (Monkee's Teriyaki?!) Those in trouble too heavily mimicked Pinkberry's name, fruit-shaped swirl logo, or "minimalist layout."...

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Where to Find the Best Ice Cream in Los Angeles

Forget the Fro-Yo Wars—the real soldiers in the battle for foodie affections here in Angeles make real ice cream not some mamby pamby imitation confection with ingredients you need a chemistry degree to pronounce. And since it's warm and sunny in SoCal more often than not, ice cream is always in season.

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After Three Years, Pinkberry Finally Approved as 'Frozen Yogurt'

After settling a lawsuit where they were accused for misrepresenting their product as frozen yogurt, Pinkberry has decided to come clean. The ultra-popular frozen yogurt chain has at last unveiled their list of "secret ingredients," added more live cultures, and began making their product off-site, earning them an official 'Live and Active Culture' seal from the National Frozen Yogurt Association. Will it make that much of a difference? Probably not. Pinkberry's had a stronghold on the fro-yo scene, despite the influx of competitors in the past year. Red Mango, Pinkberry's big rival (and actually the original fro-yo chain from South Korea that was inspiration for Pinkberry), has always touted the fact that their fro-yo meets the NYA's criteria for live...

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Best Fro-Yo Shops in SoCali

Can fro-yo dialogue ever exist without a reference to Pinkberry anymore? There's more to swirly creaminess than the controversial Korean chain, especially in the fro-yo motherland of So-Cali. Here are my five top fro-yo shops without a Pinkberry in sight.

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Tasti D-Lite in the D.C. Metro Area?

Before we return you to our regularly scheduled programming, we wanted to introduce you to Erin Zimmer, who will be checking in weekly with notes and news from the greater D.C. area. Welcome, Erin! We're looking forward to your dispatches from the nation's capital. —The Serious Eats Team So maybe Tasti D-Lite isn't always as mouthwatering as the flavor names insinuate. But every once in a while, the ten-calorie-per-ounce fluffiness is Godlike. So why can't cities like Washington be part of the fro-yo fun? Oh wait. Here's a little known fact—even to longtime D.C. residents. We kinda are. Tasti D-Lite actually has a long-lost cousin in College Park, Maryland, at the center of the University of Maryland's campus. It opened...

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