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| - I'm not sure what exactly they serve here, but it's not gelato. It's kinda sorta looks like gelato in the case, but the consistency is all wrong. Whereas authentic gelato has very little air whipped into it, which creates the smooth creamy texture (because there isn't that much butterfat either), Art of Flavors gelato must have been hooked up to a bicycle pump sometime during the cooking process. The texture is bad enough, but the flavors are far far worse. I tried a 12 oz. cup with 3 scoops: pistachio, bacio (chocolate hazelnut), and white chocolate macadamia. All three flavors had that weird chemical-ly taste of artificial flavorings, and all three were much too sweet (and I have a wicked sweet tooth, mind you). If you have a nut allergy, you could probably eat all three flavors I had without medical incident because I'm pretty sure there were no actual pistachios, hazelnuts, or macadamias involved at any stage in the gelato-making process.
What really took the cake was that for this cheap, faux gelato, Art of Flavors is charging premium prices! $5.99 for 12 ounces of DQ soft serve chock-full of artificial flavors?! Wait, that's not fair ... DQ soft serve actually isn't as bad as this stuff, and it's certainly not as expensive. Art of Flavors "gelato," on the other hand, is truly awful. And to add insult to injury, it's absurdly overpriced. STAY AWAY!!
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