Here's a neat tangent: anyone know Italian water ice at all? Growing up in Atlantic City NJ, you could get little tubs of lemon or cherry water ice from the ice cream men on the beach (and if you lived next door to one, like I did, he might also put a chunk of dry ice in your bucket for you to play with! Ah, the days before health and safety...)

Water ice is like sorbet...only not. It's unique, really. There used to be a shop in Ventnor NJ that only opened in the summer, and only sold water ice - like, 50 different flavours.

This might be a New Jersey thing...