Hong Kong shop offers ‘tear gas’ flavour ice cream

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Tear gas is among the new flavors at a Hong Kong ice cream shop&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The main ingredient is black peppercorns&comma; a reminder of the pungent&comma; peppery rounds fired by police on the streets of the semi-autonomous Chinese city during months of demonstrations last year&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It tastes like tear gas&comma;”<&sol;i> said customer Anita Wong&comma; who experienced tear gas at a protest&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It feels difficult to breathe at first&comma; and it’s really pungent and irritating&period; It makes me want to drink a lot of water immediately&period;<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think it’s a flashback that reminds me of how painful I felt in the movement&comma; and that I shouldn’t forget&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The flavour is a sign of support for the pro-democracy movement&comma; which is seeking to regain its momentum during the coronavirus pandemic&comma; the shop’s owner said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We would like to make a flavour that reminds people that they still have to persist in the protest movement and don’t lose their passion&comma;”<&sol;i> he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He tried different ingredients&comma; including wasabi and mustard&comma; in an effort to replicate the taste of tear gas&period; Black pepper&comma; he said&comma; came closest to tear gas with its throat-irritating effects&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We roast and then grind whole black peppercorns and make them into gelato&comma; the Italian style&period; It’s a bit hot&comma; but we emphasise its aftertaste&comma; which is a sensation of irritation in the throat&period; It just feels like breathing in tear gas&comma;”<&sol;i> the 31-year-old owner said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>More than 16&comma;000 rounds of tear gas were fired during the protests&comma; according to Hong Kong authorities&comma; many in densely populated districts where narrow streets are filled with small restaurants and blocks of flats&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The protests began over proposed legislation that would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China to face charges&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While the bills were withdrawn&comma; demonstrations continued over concerns Beijing is eroding the civil liberties granted to the former British colony when it was returned to Chinese rule in 1997&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e39afb34700">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e39afb34700'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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