It's Marketable...Maybe

Allison had this great idea..."let's make REAL fruit snow cones and sell them on the street corner!" Her mother said "no" to the street corner, but "sure" to the making of snow cones. She chuckled to herself when she thought through the process of how much work it would take to get enough juice to make even one snow cone. Allison's original idea included bananas, but when it was explained how you can't juice a banana with a citrus press, she moved on to other fruit.

So, here's what happens when cousins get together on a "hot" (70 degrees) Seattle afternoon.


Mushing the watermelon with a citrus juicer because the blender was off limits.


The goal: nine, not ten, snow cones.


Awestruck by the perfect cone-top created by Gavin with a kitchen funnel.


Yup, folks. That's almost half a watermelon and nearly an hours worth of time.


Grapefruit proved to be much harder than watermelon and Josi looks...well, done.


They roped off the front porch to inhibit any toddlers from entering the work zone.


Each snow cone was hand selected and flavor was carefully added with a turkey bulb syringe.


There you have it. Three flavors to choose from: Grapefruit (pretty sure that is more than the "one" grapefruit their mother said they could use), Lemon/Lime Gatorade and Watermelon.


After 3 hours of work, they are finally ready to eat! They offered one to the mother, and after sampling them, she'd have to say they were the kind of good only a labor of love can enjoy. (And an hour later, the mess is still on the front porch).

- You might have to zoom in to catch Duncan's expression. He had already eaten his when I went to take the picture. He still wanted to be in the photo so he told me he'd pretend he still had something to eat. This was his re-creation of the experience. Priceless.