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The lemonade is one of my favorite food items from Rhode Island. Instead of a glass of lemonade made with lemon flavored sugar water in basically an ice tea glass, Rhode Islanders do it different. Their lemonade is basically a lemonade slushy, but it is really good. The ice is super fine and when you drink it the ice stays infused with the lemon flavor. Cheap slushies just turn into a chunk of ice after you drink the flavoring, but some how the RI lemonade resists this tendency. It is also made with real lemons, and you will occasionally get some lemon zest, or even a seed, in your lemonade. You might as well count on getting a brain freeze at some point as well, because it tastes so good that you can't help drinking it a little faster than you should.
Answer to Bonus Question-- they actually had a vote in RI to pick the state's drink. There were basically two contenders -- RI lemonade and coffee milk. The lemonade just barely lost (Del's lemonade is the big vendor up here and during the summer there are stands on just about every block). Coffee Milk is kind of like chocolate milk but is made with coffee syrup. Coffee is actually a pretty big deal here in RI. Seattle may have Starbucks, but RI hase coffee milk, coffee cabinets, iced coffees and Dunkin Donuts.
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