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“Maybe the rebirth for Chris and I with the California Dream really has been the kind of the influx of new people and new immigrants to the area that didn’t have anybody there that was making that product for them,” John said.
In the late ’80s with the help of community members, Fosselman’s began producing different kinds of ice cream for the newcomers. Flavors large producers would never make for burgeoning ethnic groups.
“We make lychee and taro and black sesame and matcha green tea and ginger and things like that, which were never obviously in my grandfather’s flavor catalog or my dad or uncles,” said John. “Then on the Latino side, we do horchata, Oaxacan chocolate and dulce de leche.”
