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"I fell for Creamberry about seven years ago when it debuted the cotton candy burrito — a fluffy mountain of candy floss smashed into something of a tortilla, filled with ice cream and all manner of cookie pieces, gummy bears, and sprinkles, rolled up into a handheld conduit for sugar whose only drawback was that it was maybe too sweet. The shop's new creation swaps the ice cream and candy fillings for one entire dill pickle, frozen mango chunks, and a healthy shake of spicy Tajin, producing a sweet, spicy, sour, salty mouthful that's unexpectedly refreshing and so photogenic I immediately texted a photo of it to everyone I knew (though I self-consciously lifted the styrofoam lid so no one inside the ice cream shop would actually see the monstrosity I was daring to eat). The burrito's major downside is structural: one bite of pickle releases pickle juice that reduces most of the cotton candy into a sticky purple syrup, so regrettably this is a dish best eaten with a fork and knife — and within about four minutes. While the Pickle Back shot has cycled through initial shock to normalcy around town, the cotton candy pickle burrito may be a combo that works even better." - Janna Karel