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Brothers create (n)ice cream for pope’s meal

The Franklin Fountain owners used a 1940 mold of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.

POPE FRANCIS may be one of the holiest men on the planet, but when he tastes the new flavor of ice cream that the dapper brothers over at the Franklin Fountain were asked to create for his meal at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary this weekend, he’ll sure feel sinful.

Brothers Ryan and Eric Berley, who have owned the ever-popular Old City ice-cream-and-soda shop on Market Street near Letitia for 11 years, concocted their new flavor, “caramelized banana,” specifically to meet the sweet tastes of this sweet pope.

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Celebrating the Flavors of Eataly With Ice Cream (Not Gelato)

Celebrating the Flavors of Eataly With #IceCream  (Not #Gelato)

Five years ago, Eataly opened its doors on Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street, and ushered in the era of the high-end, themed, culinary mega-store. Since then, massive shrines to all things Italian have popped up around the globe, in places like Chicago, Dubai and, as of late last month, Seoul.

To properly celebrate its anniversary, Eataly’s New York-based executive chef, Fitz Tallon, called in help from unlikely quarters: the Lower East Side. He tapped Nicholas Morgenstern, whose cult ice cream parlor dishes out scoops of Willy Wonka-esque flavors

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